“When you see history happening, try to get a front-row seat.” That’s one of the life lessons that the late Edith Simon Coliver imparted to her daughters, Sandy and Susie, as they were growing up in San Francisco. And it’s a lesson that Coliver, who died in 2001, took to heart. A Jewish refugee, Coliver…
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Philanthropy
Film
Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish documentaries
Steven Spielberg has launched a film foundation called Jewish Story Partners to fund documentaries that “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish…
Bay Area
Program created to honor local day school grad who died in nature
From the time he was a little boy, Yonim Schweig revered nature. He loved hiking and camping with his family and davening in natural settings where he…
U.S.
Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme devastated Jewish world, dies
Bernie Madoff, the fraudster who ran a $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme ensnaring thousands of investors, including a long list of Jewish organizations and…
Philanthropy
Steven Spielberg giving $200,000 to Jews of Color Initiative
Steven Spielberg is donating his Genesis Prize earnings — and more — to Jewish and non-Jewish groups working to promote racial and economic justice. The…
Obituaries
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…
Philanthropy
Our Pandemic Year: 12 months of frenzied fundraising and philanthropy
Part Two of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. There was a day last spring when…
Bay Area
J. selected for invitation-only Jewish media fellowship
J. The Jewish News of Northern California has been chosen to participate in the inaugural Jewish Journalism Fellowship, a yearlong program designed to…
Philanthropy
Major funder pulls out of Jewish disability inclusion efforts
To many in the Jewish world, the Ruderman Family Foundation is synonymous with efforts to increase inclusion for Jews with disabilities. Based in Boston,…