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Larry Sokoloff

Larry Sokoloff

Larry Sokoloff is a writer in Mountain View.

Larry Sokoloff with his family's Torah, which now lives at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto.
Posted inFirst Person

My family’s Torah was written in Poland about a century ago. It has a new home in Palo Alto

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff August 11, 2023August 11, 2023

The Torah came into my family’s lives in the mid-1960s when my grandfather Emanuel Sokoloff bought it for the new sanctuary at Temple Beth Emet in Anaheim in Southern California. […]

Heather Klein in front of the display about her grandmother, Rose Klein, at the Angel Island Immigration Museum. (Photo/Courtesy Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation)
Posted inNews

Jewish immigrant story part of new museum on Angel Island, ‘Ellis Island of the West’

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff May 18, 2022May 19, 2022
Dutch Reformed Church pastor Leendert Overduin is recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Posted inUncategorized

Palo Alto student essay contest honors Leendert Overduin, Dutch pastor who saved Jews

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
I-280 traffic in the 1970s. (Photo/Flickr-walkingsf CC BY 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

A trip down memory lane in my Hebrew school carpool

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff March 22, 2022
UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
Posted inEducation

Hillel portal offers another option for college scholarship search 

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff January 21, 2022January 27, 2022

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