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S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie gave the keynote address at the city's Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCCSF. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

How a Nazi bookstore led to S.F.’s Yom HaShoah observance and the ‘courage to act’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

San Francisco’s Jewish community held its first Yom HaShoah ceremony on May 3, 1978, just one short and painful year after the opening of a Nazi bookstore across from a […]

Food donation barrels at the Jewish Family and Children's Services food bank in San Francisco last year. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Hidden from view, more Bay Area Jews are struggling financially

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb December 19, 2025December 20, 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
JFCS Kosher Meals on Wheels program in San Francisco delivers hot, nutritious meals to homebound seniors who keep kosher. (Photo/Courtesy JFCS)
Posted inBay Area

Panel on Jewish poverty will shine a light on a hidden topic

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 25, 2023
State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco addresses the State Senate. (Photo/California State Senate Democratic Caucus)
Posted inCalifornia

Bill backed by Wiener and Jewish groups would give caseworkers extra time to help refugees

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
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
Sonia Apfelblum, a Holocaust survivor, became a bat mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo on May 12, 2022. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein)
Posted inBay Area

Two Holocaust survivors celebrate long-delayed b’nai mitzvah in San Mateo

by Dan Pine June 21, 2022June 23, 2022
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

$36 million on the table for Holocaust survivors in California

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

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