DESIGNING HOME: JEWS IN MID-CENTURY DESIGN looks at the contribution of Jewish designers, architects, patrons, and merchants in a distinctly modern American domestic landscape. SHIFTING FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA: After World War II world Jewry shifted from Europe to America. Local and emigre Jewish architects and designers were welcomed into the creative communities all over…
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has perfected the art of keeping you so entertained that you don’t notice you’re being educated in the process. You don’t have to be a Jew to enjoy the 31st annual SFJFF.In 2010 the festival explored the role of Jews in popular culture, including a wonderfully curated collection of…
When someone commented that Gertrude Stein did not look like her portrait, Picasso replied, “She will.” Thanks to the CJM, I am able to guarantee you will receive buckets of admiration for Stein and her contemporaries. In her time (1874-1946) Stein was famous as a modern writer, style-maker, art collector, and networker extraordinaire. What’s well…
Thanks to the fantastic San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, preview screenings currently in progress, I was treated to a great independent film, sort of a romantic comedy for the hip urbanite. Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones, a real life New York couple, wrote a fictionalized version of a point in their relationship when they tried…
Eeep, I’m writing this blog when I should be helping my mom make kugel and matzo ball soup before sunset! To all my Jewish Divas–have an easy fast tomorrow on Yom Kippur! A new year, a new exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Mazel Tov! Just as the Jewish calendar year turns…