Bay Area
From groceries to phone banking, volunteers step up during outbreak
Throughout the Bay Area, synagogues and Jewish agencies have discovered their secret power: volunteers. From running phone banks to buying and delivering…
Passover
Temple gift shops pick up where now-closed Judaica stores left off
With only two independent Judaica stores remaining in the Bay Area, synagogue and JCC gift shops are filling a growing need not only for tangible items,…
Honoring the Survivors
A post-Kristallnacht escape by ‘the bravest person I know’
Part of an ongoing series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California Closing her eyes, traveling back in time to Berlin’s “Night of…
Religion
Coronavirus forces b’nai mitzvah ceremonies online
“It was a little different. It was weird,” 13-year-old Reuben Friedman said of his March 19 bar mitzvah in San Francisco. He did his Torah reading from a…
Health
Jewish senior facilities seek masks, other protective supplies
As hospitals nationwide face shortages of essential medical equipment due to soaring demand and broken supply chains, Jewish senior homes in the Bay Area…
Religion
Death during a pandemic: virtual shiva calls and funerals without mourners
Under ordinary circumstances, Sophi Jacobs would have traveled from her home in San Francisco to Manhattan for her father’s funeral. She would have stayed…
Bay Area
Home at last: Jewish S.F. resident ends 14-day quarantine
Hinda Gilbert says she wouldn’t recommend Travis Air Force Base as a vacation destination. And she will never again look the same way at a turkey sandwich…
Bay Area
Oakland’s interim top cop sees ‘social equity’ through Jewish lens
Oakland soon will have a new sheriff in town. On Monday, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced that an offer had been made to Susan Manheimer — a career…
Bay Area
Hebrew Free Loan ‘inundated’ with $1 million in loan requests
With the Bay Area already feeling the crushing economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Hebrew Free Loan has received approximately $1 million in loan…