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Liz Harris

Liz Harris is a J. contributor. She was J.'s culture editor from 2012 to 2018.

Marion Friedeberg in her sports car (left) and a 1947 article in the Examiner about her (right).
Posted inSeniors

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor still zips around S.F. in her sports car

by Liz Harris April 17, 2023

In 1947, the San Francisco Examiner interviewed new Americans to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. One of them was 14-year-old Marion Friedeberg, who had arrived […]

Pamela Rose performing a Wild Women of Song show in 2010.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: Jazz vocalist Pamela Rose on singing the blues and the Jewish women of Tin Pan Alley

by Liz Harris March 30, 2023March 30, 2023
Rabbi Gordon Freeman wearing the tallit his daughters gave him, which has the names of all his grandchildren on it. He is standing by a painting from The Sh'ma Project, which he and two friends put together.
Posted inJewish Life

Why this local rabbi is embracing his 80s with a second bar mitzvah

by Liz Harris February 15, 2023
Kate Goldstein-Breyer "interviews" her daughter Annabel on stage at the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a City Arts & Lectures event.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: She picked up City Arts & Lectures where her mom left off

by Liz Harris December 29, 2022
Inventor Eddy Goldfarb is the subject of "Eddy's World," a documentary  in the 2023 Legacy Film Festival on Aging.
Posted inTV & Film

Legacy Film Festival spotlights ups and downs of elderly Jews

by Liz Harris December 27, 2022December 30, 2022
Allison Tatarsky is the director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: She’s looking to wipe out malaria, the world’s deadliest disease

by Liz Harris November 28, 2022November 28, 2022
Suzanne Felson on San Francisco, who is a member of the Jewish Future Pledge advisory board, helping build a friend's sukkah.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Who’s pledging to bequeath 50% to Jewish causes? These people are.

by Liz Harris October 13, 2022October 13, 2022
Leslie Saul-Gershenz at one of her research study sites in the Mojave National Preserve, trying to take a picture of a Mojave desert tortoise. (Photo/Norm Gershenz)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: This UC scientist is studying how solar energy affects wild bees

by Liz Harris August 24, 2022August 25, 2022
The cast of "Follies," currently showing at the San Francisco Playhouse with costumes by Abra Berman.
Posted inUncategorized

Costume designer Abra Berman: ‘All the world’s a stage, and I want to costume it’

by Liz Harris August 18, 2022
"Joyful Shabbat" is one of 17 pieces in Beth Bourland's "Journey to Judaism" exhibit.
Posted inCulture

Artist Beth Bourland chronicles her conversion to Judaism in striking watercolors and collages

by Liz Harris August 16, 2022August 17, 2022

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