April 28, 2022
By Katherine Tick Living Our Jewish Values is an initiative we launched earlier this year to strengthen the feeling of community and enrich the spiritual experience for residents and their families, staff, and volunteers, by aligning ourselves with the Jewish values that are the foundation of our organization. This includes programs, activities, and events that […]
March 16, 2022
Purim is a joyous holiday celebrating the saving of the Jews from a threatened massacre at the hands of an evil Persian vizier, Haman. The story of Purim is told in the Book of Esther, whose eponymous heroine plays the leading role in saving her people. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with wild abandon and […]
March 1, 2022
By Katherine Tick Living Our Jewish Values is the new initiative we are undertaking, in partnership with the rabbis from the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, to strengthen the feeling of community and to enrich the spiritual experience for residents and their families, staff, and volunteers. This includes programs, activities, and events that are based […]
February 22, 2022
The Bay Area Jewish Healing Center (BAJHC) is dedicated to providing Jewish spiritual care to those living with illness, to those caring for the ill, and to the bereaved through direct service, education and training, and information and referral. Jewish Healing combines ancient tradition with modern tools to provide spiritual support for individuals and families […]
February 2, 2022
In collaboration with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, the SFCJL Life Enrichment and Jewish Life & Culture Departments, we are embarking on a new initiative using Jewish values to strengthen connections for—and to—our entire SFCJL community. The hope is that that by sharing the universality of the Jewish values that ground our work, we […]
January 20, 2022
On Tuesday, January 18, SFCJL hosted two Facebook Live events to share our campus Tu B’Shvat celebrations with our broader community of family, friends, and supporters. In the Rosenberg Garden, Rabbi Natan Fenner, our partner with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, presided over the planting and dedication of a nectarine tree, joined by Judith […]
