Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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Culture The Boys of Buchenwald
The black-and-white photos on display couldn’t be more different. There’s Izio Rosenman, a young boy, held by his mother at a family picnic. Next to this 1937 photo we see Izio in a hammock with his two sisters. He seems content. In the other photo, Janek Szlajtsztajn and David Perlmutter sit behind the barbed wire…
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Culture High School Unmusical: A Comic Book Artist Draws Adolescence in All Its Awkward Splendor
Ariel Schrag, 28, is almost done with high school. Actually, she graduated from Berkeley High School in California a decade ago, and since then she has earned an English literature degree from Columbia University, authored or edited several books, and spent two years as a staff writer and story editor on Showtime’s hit series “The…
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News Jewish Insider Tapped To Be Golden State’s Most Powerful Democrat
Oakland, Calif. – Long before Darrell Steinberg was tapped to become California’s most powerful Democrat, the labor lawyer-turned-legislator developed his political acumen in the Jewish communal world. Steinberg, 48, is set to become the California State Senate’s president pro tem after Oakland’s Don Perata is term-limited out. Steinberg will take his position in December and…
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News Beatle Mania
Folk singer Gerry Tenney breaks into song midway through an interview: “Ze ikh a royte tir ikh vill es farbn schvartz….” Sound familiar? Perhaps not in Yiddish, but in English: “I see a red door and I want it painted black….” Yes, the Rolling Stones classic is only the latest to which Tenney, 66, has…
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Israel News Final Frontier Calls to Nimoy
The new “Star Trek” film’s trailer shows a vast shipyard where the U.S.S. Enterprise is under construction, as a voice intones that famous phrase, “Space, the final frontier….” Ah, that deep, rich voice. It’s unmistakable. Spock is back. In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But…
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News House Leaders Vow Tough Stance on Iran
Oakland, Calif. – In the wake of Rep. Tom Lantos’s announcement last week that he will retire from Congress later this year, both potential successors to his chairmanship of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee are promising no significant shift in policy toward Israel and Iran. The only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress,…
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News At JCC, Common Ground for Muslims and Jews
Muslim-Jewish understanding can come only through knowledge and respect, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco believes — and maybe through some old-fashioned head-to-head debate. And so, last month the JCC hosted Judea Pearl — father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002 — and…
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News Bay Area Artists Fight Over Framing of Mideast Conflict
Oakland, Calif. – Over the past few months, the City by the Bay has become the city in the fray. Driven by three separate incidents, a communitywide debate has emerged over the Middle East conflict — and, specifically, how it is expressed artistically, in both public and private spaces. Last August, San Francisco State University…
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