News & Impact

Seniors At Home, the senior care division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, has today announced the expansion of its services with the opening of a new Center for Dementia Care. “The population of seniors in the Bay Area who suffer from dementia-related conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, is growing dramatically,” says Traci Dobronravova, MSW, Associate Director of Seniors At Home. “As one of the leaders in senior care in the Bay Area, we are pleased to be able to meet the requests of our clients by starting a new program that provides the specialized support needed for dementia care.”… Read More

Bay Area parents seeking the best information about preschools for their children are invited to attend San Francisco’s largest annual exhibition of preschools—Preschool Preview Night—which will take place this year on Wed., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, at the San Francisco County Fair Building (Hall of Flowers) in Golden Gate Park. The yearly preschool extravaganza, featuring scores of representatives from San Francisco preschools, along with other young child-centered exhibitors, is hosted and organized by Parents Place, the family resource center division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Tickets, $18 if purchased in advance, can be obtained at the Parents… Read More

On Wed., Aug. 20, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm, experts from Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) and its Seniors At Home Division will present Helping Our Aging Community Live Safely, a free talk that will focus on the ways that concerned community members can ensure the physical, financial, and emotional well-being of loved ones as they age. The lunch-and-learn presentation—attendees are encouraged to bring their own brown-bag lunch—will learn if there are any red flags or markers they should look for in attempting to identify possible abuse and what they can do to help if they suspect that their… Read More

Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) is pleased to announce that its Board of Trustees member Joyce Newstat and her spouse, community and business leader Susan Lowenberg, recently established the Seymour Newstat Endowment Fund at JFCS to benefit Holocaust survivors who participate in the agency’s social and educational program called Café by the Bay. Specifically, the fund will support Café by the Bay’s annual Passover seder, which attracts many Holocaust survivors throughout the Bay Area. Remaining distributions from the fund will be used to educate young people about the Holocaust and to advance moral courage, tolerance, and social justice. The… Read More

The JFCS Holocaust Center in partnership with Lehrhaus Judaica today announced the publication of The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc. After more than 70 years in obscurity, the diary of a teenage girl that was found at Auschwitz in 1945 will be revealed for the first time to the public on March 10, 2014. Accompanied by rich background materials and edited by National Jewish Book Award recipient Alexandra Zapruder, the diary is destined to become an important source of inspiration for students of the Holocaust around the world. In 1940, the Nazis forced young Rywka Lipszyc (pronounced Rif-ka Lip-shitz) and her… Read More

Media Alert What: A Tribute to Holocaust Survivors: Honoring Those Who Gave Their Testimonies When: Sunday, June 9, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Where: The Palace Hotel Why: Bay Area Holocaust survivors will be recognized for the vital role they have played as educators. Now all well into their 80s and 90s, the survivors have shared their stories of moral courage, tolerance, and social responsibility to younger generations in person and on videotape. In addition, the JFCS Holocaust Center, which holds the sixth largest collection of video survivor testimonies in the world, and the USC Shoah Foundation—co-sponsors of this special program—will… Read More