Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Kurt Remy Jan. 13, 1949–March 29, 2021 Kurt Remy passed away on Maui in Hawaii, one of his favorite places to live, on March 29 at the age of 72. His death was sudden and unexpected. Kurt lived all over the world and reinvented himself…
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Deaths for the week of April 2, 2021
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Kenneth Hugh Madfes March 24, 1946–March 8, 2021 Kenneth Hugh Madfes, born in…
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Jewish LGBTQ icon Al Baum dies at 90 after ‘full, rich life’
Alvin H. Baum Jr., a philanthropist and activist known as Al to his friends and admirers, died March 28 at home in San Francisco. He was 90. “Al lived a…
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Deaths for the week of March 26, 2021
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Jerrilyn Beth Kaplan Aug. 24, 1947–March 13, 2021 Jerrilyn (Harris) Kaplan, age…
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Philanthropist Stephen Grand, 77, ‘made every day count’
Stephen Grand was well known as a prodigious philanthropist, supporting a variety of Jewish causes and medical-scientific institutions. For those who knew…
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Deaths for the week of March 19, 2021
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Harold Brownstein August 31, 1925-March 2, 2021 Harold Brownstein, longtime Bay…
Community
Our Pandemic Year: Lives lost and families changed forever
Final part of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. With more than a half-million…
Music
In memoriam: Musician Jewlia Eisenberg, 50
Whoever preserves a single life, the Talmud tells us, is said to have saved the whole world. With the death of Jewlia Eisenberg last week at the age of…
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Deaths for the week of March 12, 2021
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. This page will be updated throughout the week. Submit an obituary here. Thelma…