News & Impact

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

CBS SF Bay Area Listen to an interview with Lynne Fingerman, MSW, Director of Adoption Connection… Read More

US News and World Report by Susan Johnston Each year, U.S. citizens adopt over 100,000 children, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway. Costs can range from very little for adopting a child from foster care to $40,000 or more for a private domestic adoption, says Nicole Witt, executive director of The Adoption Consultancy in Florida. For families having difficulty conceiving, the cost of infertility treatments can also run into the tens of thousands of dollars or more, but adoption offers a key benefit that medicine doesn’t. “[Adoption is] always a roller coaster of ups and downs, but at the… Read More

NBC Bay Area By: Lisa Fernandez, reporter Helen Farkas is one of a dwindling group of Holocaust survivors still alive to relay the horrors she experienced. At age 94, the Romanian-born woman is still an active speaker, telling children and civic groups how she scrambled for scraps of bread and escaped the infamous Auschwitz death camp march with her sister in 1945, during a guard shift in the middle of the night. Read the entire story and hear Helen’s interview from NBC Bay Area… Read More

Alice Radio @ 97.3 By: Liz St. John, reporter Lisa Geduldig is a comedian/host/producer of the annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Shows in San Francisco. Eve Meyer is Executive Director of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and Barbara Farber is Director of Development at Jewish Family and Chidlren’s Services. This year’s show will benefit the two organizations. Two shows on December 24th, 25th, and 26th at the New Asia Restaurant. Listen to the Full Interview from Alice Radio… Read More

Bay Area Reporter by Cynthia Laird Jewish Family and Children’s Services has announced that its board of trustees member Joyce Newstat and her spouse, community and business leader Susan Lowenberg, have established the Seymour Newstat Endowment Fund at JFCS to benefit Holocaust survivors who participate in the agency’s social and educational program called Cafe by the Bay. Read More from the Bay Area Reporter… Read More