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Israeli flags were in abundance at a rally in San Francisco's Union Square on  Sept. 18, 2023. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Where to observe Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut in the Bay Area

by J. Staff May 7, 2024May 13, 2024
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a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
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A visitor places a stone at the Holocaust memorial at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Where to observe Yom HaShoah around the Bay Area in 2024

by J. Staff May 1, 2024May 3, 2024
Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
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With a brush made of his own hair, he painted to survive in a Nazi POW camp

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Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
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Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

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(Photo/Flickr-María Helena Carey CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Regina Rummel speaking at Redwood High School. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad of Central Marin)
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Honors, happenings, comings and goings — April 2024

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a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
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Death announcements for the week of April 19, 2024

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Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White, wrote about ice cream, mah-jongg and her mother's kugel recipe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Dan White via X)
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Amy Ettinger, Santa Cruz writer who penned life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2024

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