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A man holds a certificate acknowledging his work for Americans (center) as hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, 2021.  (Photo/RNS-AP)
Posted inBay Area

‘How are we going to survive?’ Jewish forum looks to support Afghan refugees

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2021

Zuhal Bahaduri was visibly moved while speaking about her cousins still in Afghanistan. “There’s a sense of abandonment,” said Bahaduri, the daughter of Afghans who settled in the Bay Area. […]

A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
Afghans at the Kabul airport on Aug. 16, 2021, hoping to flee as the Taliban retake the country. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images) INSET: Yasamin Taher, Afghan case manager at JFCS East Bay.
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: Insider view from an Afghan employee at JFCS — and how you can help

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
Oshman Family JCC in July 2020, after the facility had been mostly deserted for months due to the pandemic. (Photo/Seth Leslie)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Our Pandemic Year: 12 months of frenzied fundraising and philanthropy

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 12, 2021March 16, 2021
three little girls walk on a trail wearing masks and waving to the camera
Posted inNews

Local JCC day camps have successful summer navigating Covid

by Liz Harris September 1, 2020September 2, 2020
Rabbi Ryan Bauer of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco speaks at the National Convening on Jewish Poverty in San Francisco, March 19 (Photo/Courtesy Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Posted inNews

More local Jews struggle with poverty than you might think

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 17, 2019April 18, 2019
they stand in a circle lifting something over their heads
Posted inBay Area, News

Soviet-born Holocaust survivors thrive in Walnut Creek program

max cherney by Max A. Cherney April 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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