Community
A ‘match made in newsprint,’ 20 years later
Twenty years ago, on erev Valentine’s Day (Feb. 13, 2000), each guest at a wedding at Temple Israel in Alameda received a mock Jewish Bulletin (this…
Obituaries
Deaths for the week of March 6, 2020
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Clarence Goldfinger April 15, 1923–Jan. 31, 2020 Clarence Stanford Goldfinger…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of March 6, 2020
Births Melissa and Jeff Blum of Brooklyn welcomed a daughter, Lucy Rae, born Dec. 16, 2019 at the Southampton Hospital in New York. Lucy weighed 7 lbs. 8…
Bay Area
New head of JCRC a millennial, but an old hand at Jewish communal work
After a lengthy search process, the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council has tapped Tyler Gregory, a 31-year-old LGBT nonprofit executive and…
Seniors
North Bay climate activist becomes a bat mitzvah at 80
Tish Levee moved to Northern California in 1977 as part of her plan to become an Episcopal minister. But it didn’t really work out that way for the now…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of Feb. 21, 2020
Birth With great joy, Ted and Cantor Amanda Edmondson welcomed our son, Jonas William Edmondson, into the covenant of the Jewish people. He has been given…
Obituaries
Deaths for the week of Feb. 21, 2020
Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Gloria Cherin Jan. 22, 1922–Feb. 9, 2020 Gloria Cherin passed away on Sunday,…
Our Crowd
Honors, happenings, comings & goings — February, 2020
Honors Longtime Jewish community leader Rita Semel was honored on Feb. 4 at the Institute on Aging’s 37th annual fundraising event, Dinner à la Heart, at…
Profiles
‘I’m not ready to leave yet,’ says 100-year-old Manhattan Project scientist
In the 1920s, David Altman and his cousin were the only Jewish boys in the small Poconos town of Hawley, Pennsylvania, where their immigrant fathers ran a…