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Portraits drawn by Carly Francis for the Intergenerational Portraiture Project. (Courtesy)
Posted inArt

JFCS project bridges generations with portraits and stories

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)Yael Bright by Lea Loeb and Yael Bright January 21, 2026January 21, 2026

Nitzayah Schiller and Tim Cunningam didn’t know each other six months ago. After all, she’s a 24-year-old San Francisco transplant working in landscape architecture, and he’s a senior living at […]

JFCS donation barrels
Posted inBay Area

Local JFCS prepares for influx of need as SNAP cutoff looms

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 31, 2025November 2, 2025
Future building for the JFCS Holocaust Center.
Posted inLocal Voice

Teach Jewish history in California classrooms, and you change the world

Anita Friedman (Courtesy  JFCS) by Anita Friedman October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Sharon Herman with her dog visitor, Malua. (Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Therapy dogs bring unconditional love to seniors at home

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 25, 2025February 25, 2025
Lori, a Holocaust survivor from the JFCS Holocaust Center speakers' bureau, addresses students in March 2019. (Photo/Trish Tunney)
Posted inEducation

California earmarks $1.9M for Holocaust and genocide education

by Ryan Torok April 18, 2022April 19, 2022
Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at an International Holocaust Remembrance day event at the former camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Damian Klamka-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Record Claims Conference payout to help Bay Area Holocaust survivors

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
Jews from Ukraine arrive at a Jewish community center in Chisinau, Moldova, Feb. 25, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Salzman)
Posted inBay Area

Ukrainian Jews in Bay Area living a ‘nightmare’ from afar

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 1, 2022March 2, 2022
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in Mountain View, 2019 (Photo/JTA-Ian Tuttle-Getty Images)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Which local Jewish institutions shared the $1.3M Zuckerberg-Chan gift?

by Dan Pine October 6, 2021October 7, 2021
Russian band Marat World kept 400 guests on their feet, Feb. 3, 2018. (Photo/Courtesy JFCS)
Posted inNews

JFCS gala raises $675,000 for fire relief, children and the elderly

by J. Staff February 7, 2018

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