Golden Bagels to sports standouts
Bill Black and Ernie Feibusch of San Francisco and Sandy Zimmerman of Oakland were recognized for their significant contributions to Jewish sports by the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California at the group’s annual Golden Bagel Awards on Nov. 3. Black was recognized for his work as a referee and for helping to revive the Jewish Youth Athletic League. Feibusch, whom JSHOF executive director Gary Wiener called a “soccer evangelist,” was honored for getting people interested in soccer in the 1950s before it became a popular American sport. Zimmerman was recognized for more than 30 years of running an adult softball league for synagogue teams in the East Bay. Don Collins, Peter Pollat, Jim Broshar, Ron Brown and Hank Fanger helped to present the awards.
Journalism honors
The Society of Professional Journalists, NorCal chapter, is honoring radio host Michael Krasny and freelance journalist Seth Rosenfeld for career achievement. Krasny is being recognized for his breadth of knowledge and interview style in his 20 years as host of KQED Radio’s “Forum”; Rosenfeld, who worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner, for his investigative reporting.
Chow, pung and kong
Toby Salk of Berkeley loves to play mah-jongg. When she lost her job some five years ago, she turned her avocation into a vocation. “I had a corporate job with an office with a couch in it,” she says. Now she happily works in living rooms and community centers around the Bay Area, offering tricks and techniques she’s learned in the 35 years she’s been playing mah-jongg and teaching newbies the rules of the game. Recently she added a monthly Mah-Jongg Sunday Brunch to her repertoire, for folks to gather, munch and play (no classes, though). Besides sharing her love of the game, Salk says, her benefits include meeting “the most wonderful people” and even running into someone she went to junior high with in New York. Contact Salk at [email protected] for info.
Short shorts…
Maya Winshell, 14, of San Francisco, is one of the Emerging Local Young Artists featured in an exhibit by students from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. The artwork will be on display in Supervisor Norman Yee’s office at San Francisco City Hall through December … The Jewish community in Akron, Ohio, is the beneficiary of a $10 million gift from the Albert and Janet Schultz Supporting Foundation of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation. The late couple, who moved to the Bay Area in 1979, were from Akron and met (and courted) at the JCC there.
Ethel Seiderman of San Anselmo and Sister Marion Irvine of San Rafael Dominican Sisters received the Visionary Marin Award of the Marin Interfaith Council on Nov. 14. Seiderman, who among other things established one of the first infant care programs in the country, was recognized for her creative approach to child care and family … Fairfax hairstylist Mitchell Field writes that he is celebrating 50 years in the business, which has taken him from “post–World War II conventional hairstyles into the 21st century where individuality rules the day.” … The New Israel Fund raised more than $400,000 to support its work in Israel at the 19th annual Guardian of Democracy dinner earlier this month … San Francisco’s Moishe House for Russian-speaking Jews was named October’s “Moishe House of the Month” by the group’s national organization.
by Suzan Berns