Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of July 12, 2019
Births Isai Sebastian Marquez was born in San Leandro on July 4, 2019. He is the second son of J. Webmaster Antonio Marquez and Lorena Montoya.…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of June 28, 2019
Births Laila Shoshana Rubin, born in Berkeley, CA on May 16, 2019. Her Chinese name is 周吉娜. Daughter to Wendy & Raviv Rubin. B’nai Mitzvah Dina Berg…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of June 14, 2019
B’nai Mitzvah Samantha Adelberg Daughter of Christie Trott and Brad Adelberg, Saturday, June 15 at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills. Ella Akin…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of May 31, 2019
B’nai Mitzvah Samantha Adelberg Daughter of Christie Trott and Brad Adelberg, Saturday, June 15 at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills. Sascha…
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…