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Tricia Creason-Valencia outside MACLA, a Latinx arts center in San Jose.

Talking With ...

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…
By Liz Harris Feb 25, 2021
From the poster for "Stranger/Sister," which will be streaming as part of the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival.

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…
By Laura Paull Feb 24, 2021
Michael Che makes a joke about Israel's vaccine rollout on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 20, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

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…
By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA Feb 24, 2021
Students at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton look at art from the center in March 2020.

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…
By Maya Mirsky Feb 22, 2021
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."

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…
By Michael Fox Feb 22, 2021
Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)

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…
By Julian Voloj, JTA Feb 22, 2021
Alessandro Gassmann (right) in “Thou Shalt Not Hate.”

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…
By Laura Paull Feb 18, 2021
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Photo/Gary Sexton)

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…
By Laura Paull Feb 17, 2021
In the 2019 "Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens" Purim spiel, Haman and the king plotted to build a wall around Shushan to keep the Jews out. (Photo/Courtesy Kiki Lipsett)

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,…
By David A.M. Wilensky Feb 17, 2021
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