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Author Martha Hall Kelly and her book 'The Golden Doves.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2023, 2:32 am
With ‘The Golden Doves,’ bestselling author honors a Holocaust survivor and friend
While promoting her debut novel, Martha Hall Kelly met 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt and promised to keep her story, and the trials of others like her, alive
By Lisa Klug
Susan Lax reads from her book, 'A Heart's Landscape.' (Courtesy)
March 26, 2023, 4:04 am
Naot shoemaker on spiritual journey joins paths with singer for healing event in NY
Co-owner of Israeli shoe brand-turned-spiritual counselor Susan Lax teams up with the artist known simply as Shira on Mar. 26 for a performance that is sure to strike a chord
By Lisa Klug
Group portrait of members of the Kalinin Jewish partisan unit (Bielski group) on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest, 1941-1944. (Courtesy of Photo Archivist, Archival Affairs Branch, The David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
January 25, 2023, 5:34 am
Descendants of Bielski partisans take to stage and screen to show weighty legacy
Live in LA through Feb. 6, Jordan Bielsky performs saga of brothers who saved 1,250 Jews in WWII; other family members amplify ancestors’ heroism in film, exhibit and classroom
By Lisa Klug
Left: Sam Bankman-Fried on the cover of the 40th annual Forbes 400 ranking issue (Business Wire/ AP). Right: FTX Arena on November 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
November 18, 2022, 6:11 pm
Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, Jewish cryptocurrency CEO, brings echoes of Bernie Madoff
After becoming a billionaire before age 30, the FTX head suffers a reversal of fortune so massive it’s setting records, decimating investors’ savings, and drawing legal questions
By Lisa Klug
'Eva and Eve' by Julie Metz. (Courtesy); and a photo of Metz's mother Eva Singer as a child in January 1938, in Vienna. (Singer/Metz family collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York)
July 24, 2021, 10:07 am
Mom’s hidden childhood scrapbook sends daughter on journey into pre-WWII Vienna
In her new book ‘Eva and Eve,’ New York Times bestselling author Julie Metz details a never-told family history uncovered through painstaking research after her mother’s death
By Lisa Klug
From left: Richie Faulkner from Judas Priest, Scott Keller, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Laughlin Keller at Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, November 10, 2016. (Courtesy Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp)
February 23, 2021, 4:23 am
Cantor’s son makes rocker dreams come true at Rock N’ Roll Fantasy Camp
87 feel-good minutes are jammed into documentary ‘Rock Camp: The Movie’ as promoter David Fishof invites rock gods to perform alongside mere mortals – often with touching results
By Lisa Klug
Ethiopian immigrants shortly after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 24, 2020. (Michael Dimenstein/ GPO)tein / GPO.
March 24, 2020, 3:21 pm
Hours before border closes, 72 Ethiopian immigrants land in Israel overnight
Amid accusations of ageism and after a frustrating stop-start immigration process, 14 Falash Mura families to be reunited with Israeli relatives, while hundreds more wait
By Lisa Klug
Ed Susman and wife Barbara upon arrival in Israel, March 19, 2020. (Courtesy)
March 19, 2020, 7:04 pm
24 immigrants from US go straight from Ben Gurion Airport to two-week quarantine
Even as the two dozen new immigrants were in air on their way to their new land, the country tightened coronavirus guidelines and bureaucrats scrambled
By Lisa Klug
Illustrative: Members of Ethiopia's Jewish community protest the Israeli government's decision not to allow all of them to emigrate at the synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, November 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)
March 18, 2020, 3:59 pm
Citing coronavirus fears, Israel suspends immigration of 250 Ethiopians
Immigration ministry spokesperson claims Prime Minister’s Office nixed flights for health reasons; former MK Avraham Neguise says immigration from other countries is unhindered
By Lisa Klug
Native New Yorker Jenny Goldfarb, who now lives in Los Angeles, California, hugs Mark Cuban on 'Shark Tank,' Sunday, November 17, 2019. (ABC/Jessica Brooks)
December 8, 2019, 10:07 pm
‘Shark Tank’ judges in a frenzy over Jewish mom’s meatless Unreal Deli
With generations of deli ownership in her family, now-vegan Jenny Goldfarb introduced her veggie corned beef on competitive investment show; Jewish billionaire Mark Cuban loved it
By Lisa Klug
From left, Dov Rosenblatt, Duvid Swirsky and Ami Kozak of Distant Cousins. (Courtesy)
March 5, 2019, 4:41 am
Jewish band makes soulful music for major Hollywood movies and TV ads
After its Israeli and American members founded popular bands Moshav and Blue Fringe, LA-based Distant Cousins is making a name for itself in the music industry mainstream
By Lisa Klug
Kids cooking with Q.D. Foodie kitchen tools. (Courtesy Q.D. Foodie)
February 11, 2019, 6:55 pm
Visually impaired kids can whip up a feast with these veggie-shaped utensils
Aimed at kids and adults alike, the smiley-faced kitchen tools make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to lend a hand at mealtime
By Lisa Klug
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony performing Mahler's Symphony No. 5 on September 3, 2010, in Davies Symphony Hall. (Bill Swerbenski/ courtesy SFS)
December 19, 2018, 3:49 am
San Francisco Symphony revives homage to Anne Frank, dedicates it to Pittsburgh
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’s 36-minute piece, originally written together with Audrey Hepburn, gets new life on 70th anniversary of UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By Lisa Klug
Al Gore, center, with filmmaking couple Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 24, 2017. The duo produced a documentary follow up 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' to Gore's Oscar-winning first film on climate change. (Courtesy SJFF)
July 28, 2017, 12:37 pm
Ahead of nationwide release, Al Gore presents an ‘Inconvenient’ sequel at SF Jewish Film Festival
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ condemns Trump, calls for grassroots activism
By Lisa Klug
An April 2017 'Fireside Chat' with PragerU's Dennis Prager (YouTube screenshot)
June 14, 2017, 1:52 am
Super-conservative PragerU aims to arm pro-Israel students for their campus ‘wastelands’
Controversial, unaccredited online institution is no university, but its ‘educational’ videos about Israel, abortion — and modern art — gather millions of views
By Lisa Klug
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