Another travel misadventure: Title it ‘Covid in Cornwall’ By Janet Silver Ghent Aug 11, 2022 Squished in a window seat on a flight from Heathrow to SFO, I have 10 hours to reflect on my star-crossed journey. My husband had booked aisle and window seats, hoping no one would come between us. Alas, a big burly guy claimed his seat just as we were about to take off. After a… Read More
The Matzo Chronicles Long Island history gone awry: the story of my not-mitzvah After 12 years of glittery Christmas trees, but no menorahs, no Shabbat candles and no Friday night services, I suddenly got religion. I wanted to become… By Karen Galatz Aug 10, 2022
Honoring the Survivors Sy Karfiol recounts Holocaust childhood to spellbound audiences Sy Karfiol was just a toddler in 1942 when Nazi soldiers stormed the diamond district in Antwerp, Belgium, and arrested his father, a Jewish diamond… By Dan Pine Jun 30, 2022
Health Migraines are a pain. Here’s how to manage them A 56-year-old woman came to Samaritan House Clinic, where I am a volunteer internist, complaining of recurrent headaches. My first thought was that she… By Dr. Jerry Saliman Jun 28, 2022
The Matzo Chronicles My 50-year high school reunion was strange, fun — and bittersweet The number 50 has symbolic and practical significance in Jewish thought. It spans the days between the Exodus from Egypt and Shavuot, when the Torah was… By Karen Galatz Jun 22, 2022
Bay Area Two Holocaust survivors celebrate long-delayed b’nai mitzvah together Sonia Apfelblum and David Diamond stood beaming on the bimah, having just chanted Torah for their b’nai mitzvah. Cheering family members and friends threw… By Dan Pine Jun 21, 2022
Act Two Did our tea-making savvy sink in the Boston Harbor? On the pantry table in the basement of my Glasgow student residence, a caddy filled with black leaves sat next to an earthenware teapot, and I just… By Janet Silver Ghent Jun 15, 2022
Bay Area SFCJL’s virtual memory care earns recognition from Fast Company Driving through the mountains. Walking on the beach. Feeling the wind on your face. These are some of the tactile experiences being brought to patients… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 17, 2022
First Person Would my 1971 ‘missed abortion’ be criminal in a post-Roe world? In the summer of 1971, a year and a half before Roe v. Wade, I had a missed abortion. That’s an incomplete miscarriage, in lay terms. It was not a choice.… By Janet Silver Ghent May 11, 2022