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June 2025

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Black and Jewish Americans Gather for Juneteenth Celebration

The JCCSF was one of many Jewish organizations who hosted a Juneteenth celebrations this year, building solidarity and community

June 2025

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The Shoah Foundation’s global approach to Holocaust education: Teaching resilience through the arts

Koret has invested deeply in the USC Shoah Foundation to preserve and increase access to firsthand testimony from the Holocaust and other genocides. Their latest project, a digital book geared towards young readers, teaches empathy and understanding to combat discrimination and antisemitism.

May 2025

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Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life: Celebrating Jewish Arts and Bookfest

On May 4, 2025, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life swelled with energy as 300 people packed the building on Allston Way in Downtown Berkeley to learn from and engage with more than 30 artists, authors, and curators during the museum’s inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

April 2025

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JCCSF: The Broken Seder, a post-October 7 art installation

On Friday, November 15, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco brought over 200 people together in community to enjoy meaningful rituals, live music, and a tasty buffet dinner from Wise Sons.

March 2025

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Camp Tawonga: Celebrating 100 years of Natural Beauty, Self-Discovery, and Community

This March, Camp Tawonga will celebrate a remarkable 100 year anniversary! Camp Tawonga (Tawonga) has long served as a leader in Jewish summer camps, fostering deep connections to Judaism, Jewish community, and nature for its campers, families, and community members who participate in programming.

March 2025

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Jewish Film Institute: the Bay Area premiere of “Among Neighbors”

The Bay Area Premiere of Yoav Potash’s timely documentary Among Neighbors took place on Tuesday, February 18 in San Francisco.

December 2024

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JCCSF: A successful Gratitude Shabbat

On Friday, November 15, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco brought over 200 people together in community to enjoy meaningful rituals, live music, and a tasty buffet dinner from Wise Sons.

December 2024

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10th Annual Z3 Conference held in Palo Alto

On November 17, 1,800 thinkers, leaders, scholars, and educators gathered in Palo Alto at the Oshman Family JCC for the 10th annual Z3 Conference.

December 2024

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“Among Neighbors” premieres at the 2024 Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

This November, the new film “Among Neighbors” premiered at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. The film was executive produced by Koret Board Co-President Dr. Anita Friedman.

October 2024

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Bay Area schools need a new approach to antisemitism

Last year, many K-12 schools faced unprecedented challenges in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and the ensuing war. As a result of rising antisemitism, many families pulled their children out of public school systems, feeling like they didn’t belong. In an op-ed for theChronicle, JCRC’s Tye Gregory lays out a roadmap for teachers, administrators, and other school officials to ensure that every child feels safe and supported in the classroom.

September 2024

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ANU Museum of the Jewish People: Shifting its paradigm in the post-October 7 world

ANU Museum of the Jewish People has become a nexus for helping people—in Israel and around the globe—to explore their feelings, process their grief, grow their resilience—and take the long view of Jewish history in the wake of the October 7th attacks. This is the first in a four-part series.

September 2024

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ANU: Expressing grief and hope through art and music

Humans have many ways to mourn. Channeling grief into creativity, making something that can be seen, or heard, or read can be comforting and healing. And for the viewer, the listener, the reader, these expressions can be equally moving. The ANU Museum’s exhibition titled October 7: A Space of Anguish, Loss, Anger, Memory and Sorrow, presents the work of 25 Israeli artists. Some pieces are reactions to the attacks, several are earlier works by artists who were killed on October 7 or died subsequently, all of them memorialize what has been lost.