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December 31, 2012
6:26 am

Shot by New York Photo League member Louis Stettner, "Coming to America" depicts a Jewish immigrant and his child and is currently on display at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum. (Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum)

Blacklisted Jewish photographers get a second shot

A show at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum pays tribute to an idealistic group of artists sidelined by Cold War hysteria

By David-Elijah Nahmod

October 26, 2012
2:15 am

In 'The Flat,' filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger and his mother, Hannah, learn disturbing family secrets in the wake of his grandmother's death. (photo credit: Courtesy IFC Films)

Israeli grandma’s shocking WWII secrets revealed in ‘The Flat’

Now screening in US theaters, documentary explores director’s disturbing discovery about his family’s German past

By David-Elijah Nahmod

July 25, 2012
2:14 pm

George Reeves as Superman. (photo credit: courtesy)

A nice Jewish boy from planet Krypton

The three legs of the Superman myth — truth, justice and the American way — are straight out of the Mishna, says ‘Superman’ author Larry Tye

By David-Elijah Nahmod

April 15, 2012
12:35 pm

Proud and prejudiced

An inside look at the ‘pink-washing’ wars between pro- and anti-Israel gay activists in the US

By David-Elijah Nahmod

February 26, 2012
1:06 pm

Tal Shochat, Afarsemon (Persimmon) (from a series along with Afarsek (Peach), Shaked (Almond), Tapuach (Apple), and Rimon (Pomegranate)), 2011. C-prints, 16.5 x 17 in. Collection of Gary B. Sokol. (Photo credit: courtesy of Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York)

Trees of life

An exploration of San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum’s new exhibit, ‘Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought’

By David-Elijah Nahmod