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Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Read and watch testimony from 10 Bay Area Holocaust survivors

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
Marion Friedeberg in her sports car (left) and a 1947 article in the Examiner about her (right).
Posted inSeniors

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor still zips around S.F. in her sports car

by Liz Harris April 17, 2023
Micah Siva and her husband, Joshua, in Jaffa.
Posted inOpinion

On Israel trip for young couples, we went from strangers to family

Micah Siva by Micah Siva April 17, 2023
Two pictures. On the left, a color photo of an ornate silver cup. On the right, a vintage photo of a woman smiling outside, sitting on a bench.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Nazi-looted silver cup comes home to Bay Area descendant after 80 years

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 17, 2023April 18, 2023
Children sing at a 2014 Yom HaAtzmaut event in Palo Alto. (Photo/Saul Bromberger)
Posted inBay Area

Where to celebrate Israel at 75 around the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 14, 2023April 26, 2023
A group of Jewish young men pose while on an excursion in the Macedonian woods in 1941. The man seated in the front row, far left, has been identified as Nissim Kassorla by Numbers To Names according to Daniel Patt. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher)
Posted inBay Area

Once just faces, these Holocaust victims now have names

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2023April 27, 2023
Alison Negrin
Posted inOrganic Epicure

This East Bay chef may be retired, but she’s still in the kitchen

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2023April 18, 2023
Rabbi Mendy Cohen is dwarfed by 7'1" Kings center Domantas Sabonis, who attended Chabad of Sacramento's Purim party on March 7.
Posted inSports

Sacramento Kings’ Domantas Sabonis is joining Team Jewish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 12, 2023June 17, 2024
Daniel Altman. (Photo/Berkeleyside-Courtesy Altman family)
Posted inFirst Person

Remembering Daniel Altman, Israel-born architect who painted Bay Area scenes

by Megan Davis and Sharon Davis April 12, 2023
Netta in her new music video, "I Love My Nails."
Posted inMusic

Upcoming Bay Area concerts: Netta, Mostly Kosher and more

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 12, 2023December 28, 2023

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