Music
‘Be a mensch,’ says keyboardist for iconic rockers The Who
How does a nice Jewish boy from Palo Alto end up joining The Who? By paying his dues. And more dues. And even more. When the iconic British band hits…
World
Ukraine president’s meeting with Mila Kunis offers no escape from scandal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s first state visit to the United States was complicated, to say the least, by how it coincided with a…
TV
Subversively Jewish to the last, ‘Transparent’ goes out with a song
The Amazon Prime series “Transparent” spent four seasons building a world around a Jewish L.A. family whose patriarch comes out as transgender. Its…
Talking With ...
Q&A: Drawn to Gilbert & Sullivan, and now the Bay Area
The very model of a modern Renaissance man — and a longtime fan of Gilbert and Sullivan — David Bamberger has worked as a director, teacher, librettist…
Film
Nine films to pique Jewish interest at Mill Valley Film Fest
This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, running Oct. 3-13, brings 12 world premieres and 17 U.S. premieres to North Bay audiences. Among all of the…
Philanthropy
S.F.-based Pritzker Fund endows major historical photo collection in Israel
In the black-and-white photograph, men and boys lean against the Western Wall, while women sit just behind them. The year is 1880, or thereabouts, and…
TV
All the Jewish moments from the 2019 Emmys
After winning an Emmy Award for the second straight year, Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” movingly dedicated this victory to her Holocaust…
TV
Is 'Seinfeld' still relevant in 2019?
A lot happened in 1989. The Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain crumbled and a young political theorist named Francis Fukuyama announced that with Western…
Off the Shelf
New books: Detailed looks at WWII Jewish refugee crisis, and FDR
For students of American Jewish history, few topics are as haunting and controversial as the Roosevelt administration’s response to the oppression and…