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BBYO kicks off area membership drive

Central Region B'nai B'rith Youth Organization's Rush Sunday membership drive will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. June 1.

The campaign will be based at various chapter locations around the Bay Area.

A new Oakland-Berkeley chapter, for example, will meet at Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way.

San Francisco No. 1 chapter for girls and Sam Beber chapter for boys will meet at Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.

Kids in the Campbell-San Jose area will meet at John D. Morgan Park, Budd and San Tomas Expressway, Campbell. Those in the Danville-Walnut Creek-Moraga-Lafayette area will meet at The Cabana Club on Campolindo Drive in Moraga.

For other locations, call the BBYO regional office at (415) 259-9140.

Survivors' children to discuss their lives

An eight-week discussion group for children of Holocaust survivors will begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 and continue through July 30 at Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay, 2484 Shattuck Ave., Suite 210, Berkeley.

Topics, including the experience of growing up in a survivor family, will be facilitated by Yoka Verdoner, Holocaust Survivor Services coordinator.

Cost is $10 per session. To register, call Yoka Verdoner at (510) 704-7475, ext. 968.