Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of May 17, 2019
Births Betty Dvorson is delighted to announce the arrival of her great-grandson, Itai Maxwell Fisher, born on April 12 in Berkeley. Itai’s parents are…
Lifecycles
Dance party to celebrate Café Shalom founder’s 90th birthday
RBG is turning 90. No, not the Supreme Court Justice. This RBG is Ruth Browns Gundelfinger, the acclaimed Bay Area Israeli folk dancer. On Saturday, May…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of May 3, 2019
Births With joy and gratitude to the Almighty, Rabbi Elchonon and Chana Tenenbaum and family are delighted to announce the April 22 birth of our beloved…
Community
80 years later, Palo Alto woman’s story of rescue by Kindertransport
Like most grandmothers, Helga Newman will begin to offer you things when you enter her apartment. First it will be tea (she spent several formative years…
Local Voice
Memory Garden will be a place of healing for grieving parents
In 1938, about a year before my family left Poland to come to the United States, my mother endured a stillbirth. I was just 7 years old. Yet the memory of…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of April 19, 2019
B’nai Mitzvah Lila Abrams Daughter of Adrienne and Howard Abrams, Saturday, May 4 at Peninsula Sinai Congregation in Foster City. Isaac Bloom Son of…
Mixed & Matched
Readers offer alternatives for 11-year-old who wants bat mitzvah
I received a number of comments on my March 26 column about an 11-year-old who wants a bat mitzvah but would be starting from scratch because she has not…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of April 5, 2019
B’nai Mitzvah Benjamin Bakhash Son of Heidi and Eddie Bakhash, Saturday, April 13 at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills. Sarah Bakhash Daughter…
Lifecycles
100th birthday for Jewish S.F. man born as a refugee in China
On Jan. 2, William (Mushie) Krasow celebrated his 100th birthday. His nickname, Bill, was created by childhood pals who couldn’t pronounce his Russian…