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Ken Sims (right) returns the ball while Susan Sims looks on during a game of pickleball at the University Club in Palo Alto, July 30, 2023.  (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins).
Posted inSports

‘Kosher dills’: Jews can’t get enough of pickleball, so JCCs are making room

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 7, 2023August 16, 2023

Wendy Sims, a 56-year-old video editor, wasn’t interested in learning to play mahjong with her Jewish friends. She craved the social, fast-paced fun of a sport. Last year she found […]

Post-tashlich Shabbat service at the Peninsula JCC's Hamlin Garden, led by (from left) Cantor Doron Shapira, Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, musician Michael Battat and Rabbi Lisa Kingston.
Posted inFirst Person

Kicking off 5783 with spirituality and community on the Peninsula

Rabbi Laurie Matzkin by Rabbi Laurie Matzkin October 26, 2022October 27, 2022
an inscription on the wall: "welcoming strangers -- let your house be open wide, pirkei avot"
Posted inPhilanthropy

A $10M ‘lifeline’ has helped Bay Area JCCs survive big losses during pandemic

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 12, 2022October 14, 2022
(From left) Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini AKA the El-Salomons. (Photo/Mike Bryk)
Posted inComedy

Married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian comedy duo brings ‘one-bed solution’ to Peninsula

by Dan Pine June 20, 2022June 28, 2022
Paul Geduldig in 2016. (Photo/Sharon Giordano, Peninsula JCC)
Posted inNews

JCCSF goes a few miles down Peninsula to find new CEO who is ‘a big believer in JCCs’

by Gabriel Greschler March 18, 2021March 19, 2021
(Photo/JTA-Jeffrey Greenberg-Getty Images)
Posted inSeniors

How curing loneliness can increase longevity and health

by Dr. Jerry Saliman October 13, 2020May 27, 2022
The Peninsula JCC’s  pools reopened in July. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inNews

‘We’ll adapt’: Peninsula JCC cuts budget by 45 percent

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 22, 2020
an inscription on the wall: "welcoming strangers -- let your house be open wide, pirkei avot"
Posted inNews

Local JCCs working together to plan phased reopenings

by Dan Pine May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Rabbi Lavey Derby (center) of the Peninsula JCC leads a group meditation class before the pandemic. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inUncategorized

How Jewish meditation is helping people silence the pandemic anxiety

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 12, 2020May 13, 2020
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is making changes to its board.
Posted inBay Area

Federation issues $2.4 million in second wave of emergency grants

by Dan Pine May 8, 2020May 12, 2020

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