From synagogues to day schools to social service agencies, every Jewish organization has had to learn new ways of working these past 15 months. That includes the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, the central grant-making institution in the Bay Area Jewish world. In the past year, the Federation has disbursed $25 million in…
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy
$60 million gift from Pritzkers builds UCSF family psychiatry center
When UCSF opens its 150,000-square-foot psychiatry building in the fall, the Bay Area philanthropists who initiated the project will realize a vision…
History
Stanford begins work on massive digital Nuremberg archive
“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,…
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…