Contemporary Jewish Museum

04/30/2026

We're excited to partner with our friends at Collection of Jewish Art and Life on the Jewish Arts and Bookfest on Sunday, May 3! Kick off Jewish American Heritage Month with a lineup of over 30 authors and artists at the festival, and enjoy book talks, panel discussions, and family-friendly workshops celebrating the diversity of Jewish culture. Featured topics include the intersection of Jewish, Latin, and Arab identities, the role of 1980s punk in fighting antisemitism, and how Jewish creators have impacted everything from American comic books to children’s literature. Learn more at

Jump to: Tickets Schedule 2026 Headliner Sessions Family-friendly Series Festival Shuk [Marketplace] Volunteer Partners and Sponsors Venue Policies   In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, the Jewish Arts & Bookfest brings together authors and artists for panel discussions, workshops, re...

04/22/2026

This Earth Day, we're taking the opportunity to explore the environmental values embedded in Jewish tradition (with an artful twist, of course!). In honor of the occasion, we're flashing back to our exhibition "A Menu for Recognizing Invisible Forces." Our food is deeply connected to the environment and our communities. This exhibition from Helena Keeffe and Jessica Prentice creatively explored the unseen but powerful processes that weave through our food systems, featuring art ranging from dyed tablecloths to colorful video works depicting communal meals. Its content and artworks inspire reflection on food, culture, and the cycles that connect them. Check it out below!

Keeffe and Prentice’s havruta installation—A Menu for Recognizing Invisible Forces—utilizes the case in a dynamic way, showing evidence of their experiments and explorations around all the unseen but powerful processes that weave through our food system and our community life—from traditiona...

04/17/2026

Connie Zheng’s "Land of Opportunity" is an expansive map of the Bay Area that features annotations of sites of both environmental destruction and reconstruction, offering new ways to experience our local geography. This Earth Month, we're flashing back to a lesson plan from the exhibition "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves" that offers opportunities to explore Zheng’s beautiful artwork and includes prompts for considering our own surroundings. Dive in below! 🌏🎨

This resource is designed to help students gain awareness of environmental justice in the Bay Area and make a map representing their personal connections to where they live, utilizing artist Connie Zheng's expansive map Land of Opportunity. Included in the guide are a high-resolution image of the ma...

04/09/2026

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins at sundown on April 13. This year, join the Bay Area community for an evening of remembrance honoring the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust. In moments when the world feels uncertain, gathering together matters; and this year’s theme, "the courage to act," reminds us that remembering together, speaking names aloud, and standing in community can be a powerful act of resistance. Sign up to attend for free at

Please join us for the San Francisco community-wide commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Monday, April 13 at Together, we honor the lives lost in the Holocaust and ensure that the lessons of history are never forgotten. https://donate.jfcs.org/YHS-2026

04/08/2026

Join the JCCSF and JFCS Holocaust Center, in partnership with Contemporary Jewish Museum and Congregation Emanu-El for two community screenings of the award-winning film Among Neighbors.

Decades after the Holocaust, acclaimed American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film Festival) unearths the haunting mysteries of a small Polish town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries.

🗓️MON, APR 14,
🎥1st Screening 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 2nd Screening 6:30 PM – 9:00PM
📍JCCSF
🎟️ Get your ticket -> https://bit.ly/4dzftng

04/01/2026

Passover begins tonight at sundown. From all of us at The CJM, we wish you a meaningful holiday, full of your favorite traditions. Chag Pesach Sameach!

03/30/2026

Over the past few decades, many traditions have been added to the seder to make it more expansive and inclusive. As Women's History Month comes to a close we're highlighting a custom that highlights the role of women in the story of Exodus: Miriam's Cup. Read more at the here from our friends at MyJewishLearning.
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What special Passover traditions do you observe? Share in the comments below!

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03/23/2026

Happy Women's History Month! Celebrate with us by revisiting the history of a Jewish woman who took the Wild West by storm. Josephine Earp was the common-law wife of legendary adventurer Wyatt Earp, and lived a life like few others—including playing a role at the famous O.K. Corral. Dive into her adventures amidst the booms and busts of frontier towns in this Sunday Stories from our archives.

Josephine Marcus Earp was a Jewish woman who, for forty-seven years, was common-law married to legendary adventurer Wyatt Earp. Coming of age in San Francisco, a brand-new cosmopolitan city on the edge of the ocean, Josephine left home for a life of adventure. She was a player in the famous O.K. Cor...

03/18/2026

Hello friends—we have an update to share. We've used our temporary closure as a period of recalibration, working to articulate a clear and energized vision for The Museum, and a strengthened focus on contemporary art as a lens to explore Jewish experiences.⁠
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As part of that path forward, today we are sharing the news that The CJM will be listing our building for sale. We acknowledge that this news may feel difficult and want to assure you that this was a careful decision considered by many to ensure a long-term future for The Museum. While our physical home may change, The CJM as an organization is here to stay, and we are committed to remaining a vital part of the Bay Area’s cultural landscape for generations to come. We are actively laying the groundwork for new exhibitions, partnerships, and ways to connect and look forward to sharing more with you before the end of the year. We are excited to continue on our journey toward what comes next, in partnership with you.

03/17/2026

In honor of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's birthday earlier this week, we're spotlighting a remarkable installation now on view at Temple Emanu-El. We're thrilled to have collaborated on "The Collars of RBG": an installation of photographs by Elinor Carucci that depict Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lace jabots and statement collars that she wore at pivotal moments of her career. These images offer a meditation on women’s expressions of individuality, centering the late Justice’s identity and her legacy of societal change.⁠ Visit Temple Emanu-El to take a look!

All images courtesy Elinor Carucci and Temple Emanu-El

03/06/2026

Carissa Potter’s artwork is like a hug for your heart ❤️ In this month's 4 Questions interview series, hear from Potter, whose artwork was exhibited in "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves" at The CJM, and learn about her current projects, sources of inspiration, and favorite hummus recipe! 😋 Read at

The Four Questions is a monthly series of short-form interviews in which we catch up with an artist we've previously gotten to know through their work at The CJM. This month, hear from Carissa Potter, whose work was featured in Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves in 2022.