Bay Area
San Francisco Jewish senior home resuming family visits
Updated on Sept. 10, 9:30 a.m. For the first time since March, family members will once again be able to visit their loved ones at the San Francisco…
Family Matters
Help! Being dad’s caregiver is even tougher during Covid-19
Dear Rita: I recently moved from the Midwest to be closer to my 83-year-old dad, who lives alone and is becoming more forgetful. Following a period of…
Books
Tales of lockdown give immediacy to Palo Alto retiree’s short story collection
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Ben, a 42-year-old theater manager, lives alone in a Brooklyn…
Local Voice
Reutlinger is a community gem, so let’s fight to save it
On July 8, the California Superior Court ruled that the Jewish Federation of the East Bay may proceed in the fight to reverse the takeover of the…
Bay Area
First patient tests positive for coronavirus at S.F. Jewish senior home
The San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living announced on Aug. 1 that a patient has tested positive for the novel coronavirus — the first individual who is…
Local Voice
We’re seasoned citizens, not expendable! Don’t count us out.
When in my 30s, I was a bit saddened when businesses and establishments stopped asking me for my ID. It seemed to happen all at once. After all, when I…
Honoring the Survivors
Psychedelic journeys brought peace to this Holocaust survivor
Part of an ongoing series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California After his father disappeared to a forced labor camp in 1942, when…
The Matzo Chronicles
We’ve got what it takes to endure these difficult days
Jews are a resilient people. We’ve had no choice, having lived through exile, persecution, pogroms and Holocaust — millennia of unrelenting anti-Semitism.…
The Matzo Chronicles
Scared I had Covid? You bet! But love has helped me heal.
Always one to be different, I got pneumonia amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Coughing, high fevers, weak, felt like I was going to die, swabbed (twice!) (yuck)…