Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s gift of $120 million to the San Francisco Bay Area public school system on Friday marks his second attempt at putting huge sums of his own money into turning around failing schools. This time, he can only hope to come under less criticism. Four years ago, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to…
Tens of thousands of copies of “The Szyk Haggadah” have been read at Passover Seders around the world; but the original pages of the book, hand-lettered and hand-painted in the 1930s, have not been shown in public for 60 years. Now all 48 watercolors and gouaches created by a brilliant Polish-born illustrator can be seen…
Boy aims toy gun at wreckage of a Baghdad car bombing, one of 9 across Iraq that killed 14 on March 5. And that wasn’t Iraq’s worst day in March. / Getty Images Mission Accomplished: Just in time for the 11th anniversary of America’s war to liberate Iraq, a leading global business consulting firm comes…
Jim Offel has been named interim CEO of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. He will assume the position after March 31, when CEO Jennifer Gorovitz steps down after more than four years at the helm. Currently a federation program officer and director of special projects, Offel also served as the federation’s COO from March…
In my nearly 10 years at the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, and in my fifth year as the CEO, I have had the great fortune to be in the forefront of a community that is responding with creativity and wisdom to the changes in Jewish life in the 21st century. Having…
Jennifer Gorovitz, the chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Jewish federation and the only woman to head a large Jewish federation in the United States, announced that she will resign from her position at the end of March. Gorovitz announced her resignation in a letter circulated by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the…
San Francisco State University’s president condemned placards at a Palestinian campus event that said, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.” Stencils allowing attendees to paint the slogan on placards were available at a Nov. 7 event celebrating the sixth anniversary of the creation of a campus mural honoring the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said. According…
Sometimes. a little Bey’ can go a long way. Deborah Cohan, a San Francisco-based OB-GYN, instigated what is probably the first ever operation room dance party, right before undergoing a double mastectomy at Mt. Zion Hospital. What ensues is the most inspirational six minutes ever as Cohan and her team bump and grind to Beyonce’s…
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