Bay Area
Coronavirus: S.F. Jewish senior home bars visitors, others ramp up measures
We are covering the coronavirus’ effects on the Bay Area Jewish community on an ongoing basis. Check here for our full coverage. With the elderly…
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…
Bay Area
Jewish senior homes prep for coronavirus
We are covering the coronavirus’ effects on the Bay Area Jewish community on an ongoing basis. Check here for our full coverage. If you have local…
Education
A learning garden grows in Richmond, in memory of ‘Grandpa Allen’
When Berkeley resident Allen Trachtenberg died in 2012, his wife, five adult children and son-in-law decided that they would honor him with a garden. His…
Honoring the Survivors
S.F. man, 88, recalls a ‘nightmare’ at every turn
Part of an ongoing series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California Leon Rajninger lost much of his childhood in the Holocaust. Life in…
Seniors
Read all about it! For Moldaw residents, a newspaper of their own
“There should be some way that residents here should have a voice.” That’s what went through the minds of Herbert and Liz Leifer of the Moldaw Residences…
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…
Bay Area
Judge says plaintiffs in Reutlinger lawsuit have no standing
A Contra Costa Superior Court judge this week dealt a blow to a lawsuit that seeks to derail the proposed affiliation between The Reutlinger Community in…
Honoring the Survivors
Rena Victor, 80, recounts surviving Holocaust and bombing of Hamburg
Part of a year-long series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California Rena Victor remembers the bombs falling on Hamburg. She was only 4,…