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Galya Blachman and Elay Cohen
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S.F. neighbors who bonded after Oct. 7 have grown into a huge friend group

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

For years, Galya Blachman and Elay Cohen lived just a few doors apart from each other in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. They’d see each other now and then, since […]

A passerby inspects the “Stop the Genocide in Gaza Now!” mural in San Francisco's quiet Noe Valley neighborhood, Nov. 1, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Mural calling to end ‘genocide’ in Gaza roils S.F. neighborhood

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 6, 2023December 14, 2023
Following the appearance of anti-Israel graffiti at Gan Noe Preschool, the children decorated a banner offering Shabbat greetings to the neighborhood.
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S.F. Chabad preschool vandalized with ‘Death to Israel’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 25, 2021May 26, 2021
Sheila Ash in the sitting room of Noe’s Nest, her San Francisco bed and breakfast. (Photo/Joyce Goldschmid)
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‘Stylish’ doesn’t begin to describe this eccentric Noe Valley B&B owner

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 17, 2017

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