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  Never the Last Road: A Partisan’s Life By Mira Shelub and Fred Rosenbaum Mira Shelub is a partisan and a familiar face to many Bay Area students who have had the privilege of hearing her speak. Never the Last Road: A Partisan’s Life has just been released and tells Mira’s miraculous story. Barely twenty years old, Mira escaped from a Nazi labor camp to join the Jewish Resistance in the forest. She fought back against radical evil and began a passionate love affair that would last a lifetime. Published by Lehrhaus Judaica in partnership with Jewish Family and Children’s… Read More

By all accounts Micah had a great freshman year—good grades, a nice mix of extracurricular activities and some new friends who shared his passions for music, soccer and anime comics. But by October of his sophomore year, Micah, now 16, had lost interest in school, sports, clubs and friends. He spent a lot of time alone in his room listening to heavy metal music; only emerging for meals where he sat sullenly, responding to his parents’ questions with barely a grunt. “We were out of our minds with concern,” said his mother, Joanne, who contacted Parents Place for help after… Read More

Bay Area Reporter by Cynthia Laird A lesbian who runs the palliative care program at Seniors At Home, the senior care division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco, will receive one of two 2015 Compassionate Care Leadership Awards from the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. Read more from the Bay Area Reporter… Read More

J Weekly by Patricia Corrigan Steve Dvorkin, 18, and Eric Berkovsky, 17, have different interests and different career plans, but they have two important things in common. Both are sons of Russian immigrants and both volunteer in the citizenship program operated by Jewish Family and Children’s Services in San Francisco. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

Community members are invited to observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Sun., Apr. 19, 1:30 – 6:15 pm, at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street. This year’s observance, titled Resilience through Creativity, will include a number of programs focusing on the significant role that art, music, and poetry have played in the lives of those who endured the Holocaust. All of the afternoon’s programs are free and open to the public. The event will also honor the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the end of the Holocaust. The afternoon will… Read More

Anti-Semitism is on the rise—not just in Europe, but around the globe. At JFCS, we take this very seriously, standing with the communities that have been attacked by recent events and working closely with other organizations across the country and in Israel to counter growing anti-Semitism. Because anti-Semitism and other forms of hate can lead to extreme acts of violence against people—including genocides— the JFCS Holocaust Center, which holds more than 2,000 oral histories and testimonies from Bay Area survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust, believes that the need to educate others about the lessons of the Holocaust is… Read More