Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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Israel News Rabbi: ‘Da Vinci’ Paints Skewed Picture
Rabbi Michael Lerner didn’t let an archbishop’s presence at his elbow keep him from throwing a few jabs at the Catholic Church during a recent panel discussion on “The Da Vinci Code.” During the May 31 forum at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in San Francisco, Lerner — a Jewish Renewal rabbi from Berkeley, Calif.,…
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News Liberal Professor Takes On Conservative Firebrand in Federal Lawsuit
OAKLAND, Calif. — An Israel critic’s lawsuit against a neoconservative provocateur seems poised to become a battle over free speech, though exactly whose speech is being curtailed depends on whom you ask. Joel Beinin, who is a Stanford University history professor and a former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, filed…
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Israel News New Class Brings Pixar Animator to Day School
California resident Josh Fried furrowed his brow and then laughed as the figure on his computer screen stood up from a bench, leaving his head behind. “Uh, Josh, the guy’s not parented,” said Sam Seder of Berkeley, Calif., his project partner. Fried, of Oakland, reattached head to torso with a few deft clicks of a…
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News Freud Turns 150, Takes Seat on Bay Area Couch
Sometimes a sesquicentennial is just a sesquicentennial. And then sometimes it’s a three-month-long series of movies, lectures and discussions, as it has been with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s “FreudFest,” commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the father of psychoanalysis. A few-dozen staffers and members gathered in the JCC’s three-story, sky-lit…
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Israel News Grad Student Discovers Texas Reality, Circa 1867
‘Wanted: Young single woman to cook, clean, launder, sew, garden, milk cows and tend chickens. Some cattle driving required; affinity for searing heat and harsh terrain preferred. Entry-level servant’s job; pay is room, board and passage to the frontier.” It doesn’t sound like an ad that an intelligent, 21st-century feminist would answer. Yet this is…
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Israel News Lisa Loeb Looks for Love
What’s a nice Jewish girl like Lisa Loeb doing on a reality show like this? Loeb — a singer-songwriter perhaps best known for her chart-topping single, “Stay (I Missed You),” featured in the 1994 movie “Reality Bites”— now stars on E! network’s “#1 Single,” where her goal is to find a man. Some might wonder…
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News Pending Execution of Gang Founder Heats Up Death Penalty Debate
The fight over whether California should carry out the execution of Crips street gang founder and convicted murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams is drawing intense Jewish reaction and heightening debate of the death penalty. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, December 13. With his appeals exhausted, only a federal…
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Israel News Barbie’s (Dyed) Jewish Roots
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain always wanted to make a short film about the modern Jewish American experience. Growing up in hippie-ish Marin County, near San Francisco, the self-described “blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jew who doesn’t have a Jewish last name” often struggled over whether to call attention to her Jewishness or let it pass. Though she was bat…
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