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Q&A: Helping Latino kids find a voice in media arts
Tricia Creason-Valencia, 51, teaches digital filmmaking at the university level, likes to serve on panel discussions about relevant issues such as…
Film
Array of genres, countries in Sacramento Jewish film fest
Outside of government, two things known to be big in Sacramento are soccer and tango. Both passions will be represented among the films this year at the…
Opinion
What Jewish comedians made of SNL's Israel joke
It’s almost Purim, which means I am busy writing jokes that poke fun at the stuff we do and obsess about as Jews without offending too many people. Not…
Education
Traveling Holocaust ‘center’ uses art to tell story of the Shoah
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick of Chabad of the Tri-Valley in Pleasanton is used to getting calls from local public schools. Since there’s no local center for…
Film
Ethics and science in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’
A triumph of classical filmmaking for a modern audience, “Adventures of a Mathematician” revisits the Manhattan Project through scientific, ethical and…
Books
Stan Lee’s complex legacy gets even more complex in new biography
Stan Lee, arguably the most famous American comic book creator, died at age 95 in 2018. Honoring his Jewish identity, many evoked the phrase “may his…
Film
WinterFest brings new Jewish cinema home for a long weekend
How many movies can you fit into 96 hours, if you really love contemporary Jewish film? The answer is more than a dozen online — plus one at the Fort…
Art
CJM announces first resident artists, Jose Arias and Leah King
Two Bay Area artists have been selected as the first recipients of a residency at the Contemporary Jewish Museum that offers private studio space and…
Religion
What are we ready to joke about this Purim?
Among Purim’s traditions, perhaps the most well known is the Purim spiel, a theatrical retelling of the Book of Esther that can be pointed, satirical,…