The Jewish Home's unique programs and services – and people associated with the Home – have received significant media coverage.
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J. Weekly April 4, 2008
It is not unusual for friends to celebrate their bat mitzvahs a few months apart. But it is special when the one is 69-year-old Jewish Home resident Rachel Alhadeff and the other is seventh-grader Adi Alouf, Rachel’s Hebrew tutor and Jewish Home volunteer.
J. WeeklyMarch 28, 2008
At the age of 14, Edward Ben-Eliezer felt compelled to join the Baghdad branch of the Haganah, Israel’s pre-state army. Now resident at the Jewish Home, Ben-Eliezer recounts his experiences, including his escape into Iran and his safe arrival in Israel at the birth of the State.
J. WeeklyMarch 21, 2008
When it comes to LGBT matters, the Jewish Home is ahead of the curve among Jewish senior agencies. With the support and in partnership with Jewish Home staff, resident and activist Judy Freespirit is focusing on making the Home as gay-friendly as possible.
J. WeeklyFebruary 15, 2008
The Jewish Home’s Rabbi Sheldon Marder will receive the Association of Jewish Aging Services “Mentor of the Year” award at the group’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., in March. The Home’s Kol Haneshama program, which trains people to provide end-of-life services to residents and their families, will also be recognized.
J. WeeklyFebruary 8, 2008
When Mark Myers assumed the position of board chair in October 2007, he became the third father-son duo to serve in this role.
J. WeeklyJanuary 25, 2008
Jewish Home resident Doris Sperber will stand on the bimah, recite an aliyah, deliver a drash, and become a bat mitzvah – an event she has dreamed of for nearly a century.
Jewish Home’s septuagenarian and octogenarians celebrate a rite of passage usually undertaken by Jewish teenagers, and conclude their year-long study by achieving their dreams.
J. WeeklyNovember 30, 2007
At the Jewish Home’s annual meeting in October, outgoing board of trustees chair David Friedman was presented with a series of baseball caps, each representing the many hats he has worn during his last three years of leadership. In turn, Friedman presented (or passed) the gavel to his successor, Mark Myers, the third of three Home leaders who followed their fathers into the board’s top position.
J. WeeklyOctober 5, 2007
Collage-maker, sculptor and now painter, Jewish Home resident Deborah Friend puts her vibrant original collages up for sale Sunday, October 14 at the Home’s Rosenberg Center. Proceeds from the sale go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
J. WeeklyJune 29, 2007
Recreation coordinator Jean Santo independently takes on learning Russian to be able to converse with our Russian-speaking Alzheimer’s patients, then heads for St. Petersburg, Russia, to test her command of the language – all for the sake of meeting the needs of Jewish Home residents, and giving them the care and attention they deserve and for which the Home is recognized.
J. staff writer Dan Pine names his favorite story of the year – and it’s the one he wrote about the Jewish Home’s comedy clinic!
San Francisco ChronicleJune 19, 2007
J. WeeklyJuly 13, 2007
The opening of the Rosenberg Family Center – 55,000 square feet of new facilities, including a synagogue, kosher kitchen, creative arts studio, fitness center, 13 clinics, and a new center for research – was celebrated at the Jewish Home at an afternoon party on June 13 that included klezmer music, a torch song singer, and a cigarette girl wandering around offering “butterscotch, peppermints and Tums for your tsuris [troubles].” Barbara Rosenberg, David Friedman, and David's mom, Phyllis Friedman were among the hundreds of guests.
J. WeeklyMarch 2, 2007
Seventeen Jewish Home residents showcased their art at SF Women Artists Gallery, including that of 102-year-old Lucille Viargues.
J. WeeklyJanuary 26, 2007
Jean Soffa has been knitting for 92 years, ever since she was five years old. She continues to do so at the Home’s weekly gathering of fellow knitters, crocheters, and needlepointers. For Jean, knitting is not only about creating homemade items and gifts; it is also a therapeutic exercise, an opportunity to be part of a group, and a form of comfort.
J. WeeklyJanuary 19, 2007
Resident Jennie Rose celebrated her wonderful longevity with bagels and lox, schmeer and schmooze, and crowned it all with a huge birthday cake. Jennie moved into the Jewish Home shortly after she turned 101 – impressively into a living environment reserved for those residents who require minimal care and assistance, which is where she resides to date.
J. WeeklyJanuary 19, 2007
Jewish Home residents and husband and wife, Yakov Kaminskiy and Germina Gurevich, have a long, shared history. Both were born in the same year – 1915; in the same place – Odessa, Ukraine. Both attended the Odessa College of Communication, where they first met; and both worked as engineers in their native Ukraine. They continue to share a record, having recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.
J. WeeklyJanuary 19, 2007
Alzheimer’s disease activist and Jewish Home resident, Anne Bashkiroff’s story about her husband’s Alzheimer’s has been reissued. Originally titled “For Sasha, with Love,” it’s now named “Forget-Me-Not.”
J. WeeklyJanuary 12, 2007
When j. staff writer and columnist Dan Pine was looking for a rest home for his father, he learned that most nursing homes cannot boast the kind of care, services and facilities enjoyed by local Jewish senior residences – such as the Jewish Home – which he references as “models for the industry.”
J. WeeklyJanuary 12, 2007
Daniel Ruth, CEO and president of the Jewish Home of San Francisco, discusses 899 Charleston, a 193-unit senior community planned for the Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, and the realization of fulfilling the need for Jewish sponsored senior living services in the South Peninsula.
J. WeeklyJanuary 12, 2007
Resident Deborah Friend hopes to double the amount she raised last year for the Michael J. Fox Foundation at this year’s Jewish Home art show and sale. Deborah, who has Parkinson’s, will donate the proceeds from the sale of her original collages and sculptures to the Foundation.
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