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Anita Friedman

A still from "Among Neighbors" with Pelagia Radecka, who was an eyewitness to murder as a child. (Courtesy)
Posted inFilm

One day to see ‘Among Neighbors,’ the local film causing controversy in Poland

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

A locally made documentary that has created controversy in Poland for its depiction of hard truths about the postwar treatment of Jews will screen twice on Dec. 15 in the […]

Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inFilm

Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025
Anita Friedman, executive director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, discusses children's education with Tony Thurmond, California's superintendent of public instruction, at the JCCSF on May 5, 2024, during a Yom HaShoah observance. (Photo/Courtesy JFCS)
Posted inNews

Education is best tool against hate, California schools chief says at Yom HaShoah event

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva May 9, 2024May 17, 2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inNews

Newsom’s state council on genocide education, established last year, takes shape

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 2, 2022November 2, 2022
Maria Litichevska and her son, Mark, fled Ukraine in the days following Russia's attack in February 2022. (Photo/Courtesy Litichevska).
Posted inBay Area

With years of experience, local Jewish agencies assist Ukrainian refugees

by Sue Fishkoff September 30, 2022October 3, 2022
Volunteer translator Zhenya Leonov (right) helps volunteer attorney Nick Keats (center) talk to a woman who recently arrived from Ukraine at a legal services clinic at JFCS San Francisco in 2022.
Posted inBay Area

Former refugees in Bay Area pay it forward by helping new Ukrainian arrivals

by Sue Fishkoff September 30, 2022September 30, 2022
Sam Salkin (left) and Anita Friedman will be honored by AJC next month.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Sam Salkin, Anita Friedman to be honored at AJC Global Advocacy Gala

by Dan Pine September 22, 2022

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