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(JTA) — Jerome Rothenberg, an acclaimed, Bronx-born poet who inspired scholars and rock stars with his exploration of the poetry and oral traditions of peoples outside of the Western literary
WinterFest from the Jewish Film Institute in San Francisco and the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival are right around the corner.
LABA East Bay, the Jewish culture “laboratory” that supports local artists, has been redubbed LABA BAY and is moving to the Firehouse in S.F.
The Jewish News of Northern California
Part Three of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. Debra Schaffner has spent much of the past year working on her first feature-length documentary. “Curse of the Mutant Heirloom” explores how women, including herself, deal with the knowledge that they carry the BRCA gene mutation, which results in increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer and is more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews. The pandemic prevented Schaffner from filming outside of her Oakland home, so she decided to lean more heavily on animation and miniatures...