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(From left) Josef Paldus-Farmwald with his Moldaw buddies, Manny and Bee Cherkas, Jan. 18, 2023. (Photo/Sarah Sherwood)
Posted inEducation

Buddy program between Hausner teens, Moldaw seniors is a ‘win-win’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 8, 2023February 15, 2023

For Josef Paldus-Farmwald, an eighth-grader at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, there’s one hour every other Wednesday that he eagerly awaits: His time with Manny Cherkas, his […]

Susan Aronovsky visits with her 94-year-old father, Albert Stark, at the S.F. Campus for Jewish Living on March 29, the first time they had seen each other in over a year. (Photo/Camille Cohen)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

New California public health rules make it harder to visit relatives in nursing homes

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 13, 2022
Nurse Manager Teri Grados receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Mary Ann Salinas at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Gabriel Greschler/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Staff at SF Jewish senior home get first Covid vaccines

by Gabriel Greschler December 21, 2020December 22, 2020
The driveway into the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, April 28, 2020. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inBay Area

S.F. Campus for Jewish Living, one of the largest senior homes in the Bay Area, to get Covid-19 vaccine in late December

by Gabriel Greschler December 9, 2020December 22, 2020
As the coronavirus has killed tens of thousands at senior care homes, strict measures have been instituted to help curb its spread. But those precautions have prevented family members from visiting their loved ones in person, causing frustration and pain. (Photo/Christian Newman)
Posted inSeniors

‘He’s lost his zest for life’: Families say it’s time to let them visit their loved ones at Jewish senior homes

by Gabriel Greschler June 18, 2020June 19, 2020
Rhoda Goldman Plaza senior home in San Francisco does not fall under the new city mandate to test all staff and residents. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inNews

Universal coronavirus testing set for S.F. skilled nursing facilities — and others want in

by Gabriel Greschler May 6, 2020May 6, 2020
Beth Roth wearing a Mask of Hope. (Photo/Courtesy Moldaw Residences)
Posted inHealth

Homespun masks aplenty at Palo Alto Jewish senior facility

by Gabriel Greschler April 24, 2020April 29, 2020
Harriet Weiss greets neighbors during the daily "Moldaw wave." (FRANK WEISS)
Posted inSeniors

A daily wave keeps spirits up for quarantined seniors

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 2, 2020April 2, 2020
A new wing under construction at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
Posted inSeniors

Coronavirus: S.F. Jewish senior home bars visitors, others ramp up measures

by Gabriel Greschler March 9, 2020March 11, 2020
Copies of Mosaic, the quarterly journal by seniors at the Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto. (Maya Mirsky)
Posted inSeniors

Read all about it! Why the residents of a Palo Alto retirement home started their own newspaper

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 12, 2020February 18, 2020

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