Three weeks ago, Aaron Jacobs, an Emergency Medical Technician with the San Francisco Fire Department, was dispatched to the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco’s Mission District. “We got a call from there, it’s a huge facility,” Jacobs said, “and they wanted this patient, a woman, evaluated for Coronavirus. She’d spiked a fever…
(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
San Francisco-area readers: The Forward is heading to the Bay area for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival! On Sunday, July 28, at the end of a fascinating week of films, join Forward CEO and publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen at a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Theater….
(JTA) — Residents of San Francisco that live on the same street as a Holocaust memorial received anti-Semitic hate mail including a reading list of Holocaust denial titles. The letters arrived at every home on San Francisco’s 34th Avenue in late May, J. The Jewish News of Northern California reported. “It is hoped that you…
Housing prices are astronomical, belief in God is bottoming out, and America seems to have settled into an age of anxiety. Time we get to a nunnery? The New York Times recently ran a story about a group of millennial activists in the Bay Area who moved in with a group of nuns. The project,…
Reports of four different cases of swastika vandalism were published in four different cities on Wednesday, the latest examples of anti-Semitic incidents that have affected the Jewish community this month, ranging from defacement of property to attempted arson. In New York City, police are investigating who drew a swastika on the front door of the…
In 1840 or 1841, a wedding in New Orleans was abruptly canceled. The bridegroom, admitting he was born out of wedlock and that his mother was black, fled on a ship bound for the West. His well-heeled bride-to-be died soon after this, some believe of shock. That ashamed groom, who was not allowed to marry…
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is “out-of-network,” leaving many privately insured patients with tens of thousands of dollars in bills, Vox reported. In its year-long investigation into emergency room billing practices, Vox learned that Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently renamed for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he donated $75 million, doesn’t work with private health…
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