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Sam Salkin poses for a portrait at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco on Aug. 1, 2023.  (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

Sam Salkin ends 14-year watch at Sinai Memorial Chapel

by Dan Pine August 1, 2023August 3, 2023

Updated Aug. 2 Though he’s officially executive director of Sinai Memorial Chapel, Sam Salkin prefers a less lofty title: funeral director, a term he said better defines his hands-on role […]

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Where Jewish lives end, this East Bay artist’s work begins

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 23, 2023February 1, 2023
headshot of Holly Blue Hawkins, and older white woman, inset in a larger picture of a cemetery
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Expert in Jewish burials is devoted to making them more ‘green’

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Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
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For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 28, 2021
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In an epidemic of loneliness, celebrate the role of the Jewish burial society

Rabbi Serena Eisenberg by Rabbi Serena Eisenberg February 13, 2019February 14, 2019
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Body work: Caretakers of the Jewish dead gather in Marin

Alissa Greenberg by Alissa Greenberg June 26, 2017June 27, 2017

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