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Friendship Circle volunteer Jamie Sloves, 14, with her buddy Ben Kramer, 11, taking some quiet time on the playground. (COURTESY FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE)
Posted inHealth

How parents of kids with mental health issues are coping with shelter-in-place

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett April 14, 2020May 5, 2020
A new wing under construction at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
Posted inNews

S.F. Campus for Jewish Living ready to accept Covid-19 patients, per state order

by Gabriel Greschler April 7, 2020April 8, 2020
Dr. Michelle Roland (left) with patients at the Maipelo Free Clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2019. (RICHARD MILES)
Posted inHealth

Doctor uses traumatic lessons from AIDS pandemic to fight coronavirus

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 7, 2020April 8, 2020
A researcher studies samples of the coronavirus in a state-run laboratory in Pennsylvania. (Photo/Flickr-GovernorTomWolf CC BY 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice, Passover, Religion, Health, Holidays, Opinion

Passover, Covid-19 and the dangers of inhumane healthcare

Rabbi Jon Sommer by Rabbi Jon Sommer April 7, 2020April 7, 2020
Rabbi Elliot Kukla
Posted inFirst Person

Disability during a pandemic: Why you should put a spoon on your seder plate this year

Rabbi Elliot Kukla by Rabbi Elliot Kukla April 1, 2020April 1, 2020
Dr. Ronn Berrol, an emergency room doctor in Oakland. (COURTESY BERROL)
Posted inBay Area

‘Called to serve’: Jewish doctors, nurses report in from the front lines

by Gabriel Greschler March 27, 2020March 27, 2020
Dr. David Cornfield (center) with Dr. Waldo Concepcion, director of pediatric kidney transplantation, and Dr. Douglas Sidell, pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon, in front of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. (AMY BROOKS)
Posted inHealth

‘It’s not the Bubonic Plague’: Stanford pediatrician at cutting edge of Covid-19 research, treatment

by Sue Fishkoff March 27, 2020March 30, 2020
Rebecca Calahan Klein of Lafayette held a neighborhood drive for masks, gloves, toilet paper and non-perishable food outside her home over the weekend. (REBECCA CALAHAN KLEIN)
Posted inHealth

Jewish senior facilities seek masks, other protective supplies

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 25, 2020April 2, 2020
Dr. Ilana Sherer, pediatrician and klezmer player.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A pediatrician who helps trans kids and moonlights playing klezmer

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 23, 2020
In this illustration from a 1349 book by the French chronicler Gilles li Muisis, residents of a town stricken by the plague burn Jews, who were blamed for causing the disease. (WIKIMEDIA)
Posted inHistory

How Jews have fared during pandemics throughout history

by Gabriel Greschler March 19, 2020March 19, 2020

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