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UCSF and the Jewish Home A world of interests at Rehabbing the Jewish partner for research Moldaw Family Residences Home’s rehab center TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 ON THE HOME FRONT 28 ABOVE PAR Daniel Ruth unveils an exciting new plan for the Jewish The Jewish Home scores at its annual Home and Arlene Krieger comments on how community golf tournament and auction. participation is essential to make it all possible. 30 UP TO THE CHALLENGE 6 PASSING THE GAVEL Shirley and Ben Eisler take up the golf Mark Myers, outgoing chair of the Jewish Home’s board of and Jewish Home gauntlet. trustees, and Michael Adler, incoming chair, compare notes. 32 DESIGN FOR LIFE 7 PARTNERS IN RESEARCH A new fundraising campaign will stretch space and Dr. Janice Schwartz describes the novel partnership capacity for the Home’s top-notch rehabilitation services. between the Jewish Home and UCSF that will break new ground for research and testing. 34 LEAVING A LEGACY Five exemplary community members leave 10 MOLDAW FAMILY RESIDENCES enduring legacies with the Jewish Home. AT 899 CHARLESTON At this unique senior living community, a world of 37 OUR DONORS interests is just outside each person’s door. Annual Fund donors demonstrate acts of loving kindness. 15 PROFILE IN COMMITMENT 46 THAT’S THE SPIRIT Supporting the elderly and vulnerable are exactly what Linda Kalinowski says she gets more than she gives, her late husband would want, says Susan Koret. volunteering as a spiritual care partner at the Jewish Home. 26 30

17 100 YEARS OF PRIDE AND JOY 48 JEWISH HOME SERVICE VOLUNTEERS Centenarian Theodore ‘Ted’ Rosenberg included The Home’s corps of active volunteers gives from the heart. the Jewish Home in his birthday celebration. 49 TEENS FOR TIKKUN OLAM 19 FILLING THE GAP Two 16-year-olds describe an innovative teen philanthropy The Home’s newly renovated acute psychiatric wing is program and why they made sure the Home would benefit. the only facility in the city dedicated to serving seniors. 50 OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS 21 MITZVAH MAKER Community organizations and entities Neil Blumenthal and Carole Shostak partner with the Jewish Home. continue their father’s legacy. 50 GIFTS IN KIND 23 DOORWAYS OF HOPE Acknowledging in-kind gifts and the contribution of services. For people with dementia, Rabbi Sheldon Marder suggests a different kind of Judaism that does not depend on learning, literacy, and memory. 26 THEY’RE STARS IN HER EYES Alexa Suslow shares how the Jewish Home’s new STARS unit (short-term and rehabilitation services) gave her mother the best care. Jewish Home of san francisco Board Of Trustees Prior to 2009 Annual Meeting

Officers Mark Myers, Chair Michael Adler, Vice Chair Michael Strunsky, Vice Chair Past Chairs David Arrick, Treasurer Leonard B. Berger Eric Fastiff, Secretary James A. Davis, M.D. David A. Friedman Trustees Frances D. Green Benjamin Anixter Douglas M. Heller Benjamin Eisler Arlene E. Krieger Stephan Krieger William J. Lowenberg Carol S. Roberts Barbara C. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Joel Roos Richard M. Rosenberg Alan Silverman Stuart W. Seiler

Jewish Senior Living Magazine 2009/2010 Jerry A. Levine, Executive Director Emeritus

A publication of the Jewish Home of San Francisco Senior Management Daniel R. Ruth, President & Chief Executive Officer 302 Silver Avenue / San Francisco, CA 94112 / www.jhsf.org Edwin Cabigao, Chief Nursing Executive Sherie A. Koshover, Chief Advancement Officer Jay S. Luxenberg, M.D., Medical Director 46 Kevin T. Potter, Chief Financial Officer Sandra C. Simon, Administrator

Jewish Home & SENIOR LIVING foundation Board Of Trustees

Officers Arlene E. Krieger, Chair Larry Marks, Treasurer Richard M. Rosenberg, Secretary Trustees Adele Corvin Joan Davis Editor and publisher: Sherie Koshover David A. Friedman Managing editor: Ilana Glaun Martin Stein Writer: Suzan Berns David Steirman Designer: Michael Wickler Daniel R. Ruth, Board Liaison Photographer: Alain McLaughlin Contributors: Janet Garcia, Daniel Hoebeke, Joan Libman, Rabbi Sheldon Marder, Rachel McNassor Moldaw Family Residences at 899 Charleston Board of Trustees Larry Marks, Chair Michael Adler The Jewish Home of San Francisco is a beneficiary agency Shelley Hébert of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Stuart Klein the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Carol S. Roberts Loren Saxe David A. Friedman, Immediate Past Chair Daniel R. Ruth, Executive Vice President Marilyn Israel, Executive Director On the Home Front At the Jewish Home of San Francisco, we are gearing up for big changes. We are talking about an innovative ʑʑWhat does our Silver Avenue campus want to be, transformation of our campus on Silver Avenue to and what does it need to be over the next 5 to 10, accommodate the diverse and changing needs and 15 to 20 years? interests of our community’s seniors – now and in ʑʑHow can we best serve our current population the future. and future clients, and how should we do so in a We are looking at a new Jewish Home that will way going forward? offer a range of living situations, and that will ʑʑHow do we remain viable in the short-term while continue, as we have since our founding in 1871, to we are developing and executing the site provide the best care and services possible to our re-master plan? key population of frail elders. This plan will alter, in fact it will revolutionize, the There is much work to be done. In the next year, way our community serves its older adults. we will continue to refine our options. We will look We are in initial planning phases now and we at how architects re-imagine Silver Avenue. We are very excited. We want to share our vision with will seek input from city planners, neighbors and you, our community and our stakeholders, so that the Jewish community, and test the feasibility of

uth you can join in our excitement and play a role in varying scenarios.

R its development. In the meantime, we must ensure that the Jewish We are calling this our site re-master plan. I admit Home is financially viable. In light of economic that this is not the most compelling name for a forces and uncertainties, we have an obligation to pioneering initiative, but I want you to be familiar be laser-focused on the expanding gap between with the name now, as we begin to reach out to you declining reimbursements and rising costs. We must

Daniel for your thoughts and ideas. There will be many look at ways to change our business model, reduce opportunities to get involved in the next six years as costs, and find new sources of income. the plan comes to fruition. With this in mind, we have already taken steps We have begun the background work. In to develop existing facilities to make them a August 2009, the boards of trustees of the Jewish stronger revenue source for the Home. For example, Home, Moldaw Family Residences, and Jewish our two new short-term units – the renovated Home & Senior Living Foundation; the Home’s senior acute psychiatric unit and STARS (short-term and management; leaders from our sister organizations; rehabilitation) – serve an expanded patient-base, consultants; and lay leadership met to review with definitive reimbursement for services. (You can the progress that has been made thus far. The learn more about these units in this magazine.) results of a recent survey were discussed, and we This is a beginning. As we consider significant learned that individuals considering moving into a changes to Silver Avenue, it will be essential for you, Jewish-sponsored senior community want to bring our community stakeholders, to be fully engaged along a car and a computer. They are interested in the thinking, planning, and vision for the future. in community life and wellness programs, as well We will not succeed without your intellectual, as the ability to move from independent living to emotional, and financial investment. assisted living to skilled nursing in the same facility. I look forward to hearing from you and working This is clearly a change from the model at the with you to continue our 138-year-old tradition Home today. of proudly providing a dynamic organization that Many questions arose at the August retreat, and fulfills the desires and needs of our community’s as we proceed, we must answer them. Among the seniors. questions: ʑʑWhat should we do with respect to the Home’s Daniel Ruth aging infrastructure? President & Chief Executive Officer ʑʑWhat can we afford to do so that buildings or Jewish Home of San Francisco areas on our campus fit their functions?

4 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 On the Home Front

Each time I visit the Jewish Home – and I do it often – I am enriched by the greetings from the residents and the range of their activities. Maybe they are getting their daily exercise in the Herbst Fitness Center, taking a class with Rabbi Sheldon Marder in the synagogue, or chatting with friends over a snack in the garden café. Of course, many of our residents are not as mobile, and it is equally heartwarming for me to see our caring staff and volunteers attend to the needs of these individuals.

Yes, I am happy when I witness firsthand the residents but also families, and indeed, the whole wonderful home for our elders that our community community. has provided for nearly a century and a half. I feel They range in diversity from the continued good knowing that so many men and women can generous support of Susan Koret and the Koret spend their final years receiving outstanding care in Foundation, to Jessia Hoffman and Daphna Torbati, a warm, ‘haimishe’ (home) environment. two incredible teens who were instrumental in a

“I am highly aware of how the crisis in our nation’s economy is affecting the Jewish Home. … It is [our community’s] support … that allows us to provide the extraordinary care that makes the Home rate among the top … in the country.”

But I am also worried. As chair of Jewish Home & grant being awarded to the Home. You will also Senior Living Foundation, I am highly aware of how learn about the contributions of our remarkable the crisis in our nation’s economy is affecting the service volunteers in a story about Linda Kalinowski, Jewish Home. a spiritual care partner. As you may know, we depend on reimbursement I encourage you to read about the Home in this from state and federal agencies to pay for care and issue and support it with a gift to Jewish Home & services for a majority of our residents. Those funds, Senior Living Foundation. I also invite you to visit which do not cover expenses to start with, continue our campus and leave, as I do, with a warm heart to decline. So we must continue to turn to our because you know our community helps us provide community for help. the best home possible for our elders. It is your support – your generosity – that allows us to provide the extraordinary care that makes our Arlene Krieger rlene Krieger A Jewish Home of San Francisco rate among the top Chair, Board of Trustees nursing homes in the country. Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation You will not be surprised when I tell you that your help is important, now more than ever. If you have any questions about the difference your contribution can make in people’s lives, just turn to the articles in this issue of Jewish Senior Living. You will find testimonies from a wide variety of individuals and supporters of the Jewish Home who understand how their donations benefit not only

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 5 6 “This is an incrediblyan is“This exciting challengingand Home.fortime the first Withthe be struggling over the next 20 years. The Home is part of that struggle and westruggleandthat ofyears.The20Home strugglingpartnext over thebeis Jewish descendsocietyourandisn’t us equippedon country Ourwillit. with deal to

of the babyboomgenerationtheof hugereachingseniorswaveofa65, about is to Mark Myers and Michael Adler S enior want to be part of the solution.”theof part bewantto the past two years, passes the gavel to Michael Adler, the Home enters a new era of of era new a enters Home the Adler, Michael to gavel the passes years, two past the building for the future. The two leaders talked to to talked leaders two The future. the for building past involvement, the Home’s ongoing challenges, and their thoughts about the future. the about thoughts their and challenges, ongoing Home’s the involvement, past As Mark Myers, chair of the Jewish Home of San Francisco’s board of trustees for for trustees of board Francisco’s San of Home Jewish the of chair Myers, Mark As Mark Myers Mark

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2009/2010 years, but your roads to involvement were quite the Home. We grew up knowing about the Jewish the standards set. they’ve It’s a little intimidating, strong commitment to the Home. He’s immensely a whole lot to the table – professionally with his and his connection is fairly recent. But he brings was ofpart our legacy. Michael didn’t grow up here and each of us had fathers who were presidents of Michael is the one. If there’s ever a person to break that legacy, background in construction, and personally with his Home. You could almost say that getting involved predecessors, and I are all native San Franciscans, highest regard possible and I hope I can live up to Mark Myers: Michael Adler: Jewish Senior Living: capable and will provide us with great leadership. different. Can you atalk bit about this? connected with the Jewish Home for a number of Jim Davis and David Friedman, my I hold my predecessors in the Michael Adler Michael You’ve both been

–Michael Adler, incoming chair, Jewish Home’strustees Jewish–MichaelAdler,ofincomingchair,board

Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in Palo Alto, and for the Home’s Barbara & Richard Rosenberg Family fiscal health. It’s a cliché, but I have big shoes to fill. to say the toleast, follow Mark and the other time for the Home. With the first of thebaby boom second-generation board chairs. Mark has been a call from board member Mike Strunsky, which a position on the Home’s board of trustees. My involvement with the Home began after I got is about to descend on us and our society isn’t participating aas member of the construction resulted in my joining the construction committee passionate and committed to protecting the legacy how will the Home deal with them? JSL: Center, which opened inThat 2006. segued into generation reaching 65, a huge wave of seniors Adler: committee for Moldaw Family Residences on the of the Home, and has a keen eye on the Home’s T PASSI Jewish Senior Living Senior Jewish What are the challenges you foresee and H This is an incredibly exciting and challenging E GAV N about their their about G E L equipped to deal with it. Our country will be struggling over the next 20 years. The Home is part of that struggle and we want to be part of the solution.

The way we deliver care today is different. As a result of medical and societal advances, people are staying healthier and active longer. From current scientific and social investigation, we know that environment can play a large part in the individual’s quality of life. Older people live independently longer, and they remain in assisted living longer before they turn to skilled nursing.

Myers: Moldaw Family Residences has stretched the boundaries of the Home in a lot of ways, both in terms of expanding the Home physically and broadening its resources for our community. Our site re-master plan, which deals with the Jewish Home’s Silver Avenue campus, and which we’re in the midst of now, is critical for us. It’ll take the Home’s ability to serve seniors to the next stage. Dr. Janice Schwartz, Jewish Home’s director of Research (right), with Lynn Kane, laboratory and research coordinator. Perhaps our biggest challenge has been and continues to be how to balance the economic realities of the Jewish Home with its mission and responsibility to the community.

Adler: We must look very carefully at how we Partners in use our resources. We must do so wisely, always working within the context of Jewish values. Research JSL: What are some highlights of the past couple years for each of you? An exciting new research partnership between Myers: In the last two years, I’ve seen the Home the University of California at San Francisco up close and I’ve got a much better sense of all (UCSF) and the Jewish Home, which will lead to the great things it does. I’ve also got to know advances in the care and treatment of older the staff, from top to bottom and everyone in adults, is about to get underway. between. It’s been such a pleasure. The quality and commitment, and the love they have for the residents, is extraordinary. It’s something you The two organizations have finalized an agreement to join don’t have the privilege of seeing simply by going forces in translating the latest medical research into new to board meetings once a month. I’ll always be treatments for seniors. It is the product of years of planning grateful for the support and leadership of the staff and research studies at the Home, beginning in 1997 when and my colleagues on the board. the Home introduced a research agenda with the formation of the Long-Term Care Research Center, in collaboration with Adler: I can’t speak too strongly about the Jewish the former Goldman Institute on Aging. In 2005, under the Home’s staff and the phenomenal lay leadership directorship of Dr. Janice Schwartz, the Home established an as well. They are dedicated, passionate people independent research department, and with a grant from the doing something they care about. They are National Institutes of Health, began studying the effects of motivating and inspiring. medicines on seniors. >>>

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A dedicated space for an expanded research center “Our needs can be defined by the fourP ’s,” says Dr. was included in the Home’s new Barbara & Richard Schwartz, director of the Home’s Research department. Rosenberg Family Center. Jewish Home & Senior Living “Place, that is, a physical space to do the work, the Foundation (which assists the Jewish Home in fulfilling completed research center; People, endowed positions its mission primarily by making grants to the Home) has for researchers, including visiting scholars and graduate launched a $5 million campaign to develop offices and students in geriatric medicine; Programs, support for

Partners in laboratories for the research team, and to help endow the science of the research center; and Partners, our a professorship to explore new and improved therapies academic partners in research, primarily UCSF.” for aging adults. The Dr. Harris M. Fishbon Fund of the The need for research to develop new therapies Mount Zion Health Fund has joined the Jewish Home for disorders of aging, diseases of the elderly, and in this effort with an initial gift to partially endow the prevention of age-associated diseases is even more UCSF Harris M. Fishbon Distinguished Professorship for relevant today. Statistics show that people are living Clinical Translational Research in Aging, to be based at longer; in 30 years, researchers believe there will be as the Jewish Home. many people older than 80 as there are under 5 years old. Geriatric care has changed; it now focuses on quality of life – helping individuals retain their physical and mental capacities so that they can engage in activities as long as possible. This is reflected in the care and activities provided at the Jewish Home. Herbst Foundation “We have very little definitive information on how to The Herbst Foundation, Inc. has pledged a generous gift for the best manage health-related disorders in the very oldest Jewish Home’s new research center. This is the second grant age groups,” says Dr. Schwartz. “This is because they’ve the Foundation has made to the Home. The Foundation, which been excluded from clinical trials that test the safety focuses on new construction, or bricks and mortar, funded and efficacy of treatments and medications. Also, in the Home’s new fitness center. The Herbst name can be seen general, therapies were directed toward extending life throughout the Bay Area, most notably in the Herbst Pavilion but not necessarily toward enhancing its quality.” at Fort Mason Center and the Herbst Theatre, located in San Dr. Schwartz’s studies at the Jewish Home have Francisco’s War Memorial Veterans Building. shown that this age group is different from the general population in terms of their reaction to medication therapies, and should be dealt with as a separate and

8 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 discrete test group. “It’s now acknowledged that the needs of people between the ages of 65 and 75, and those older than 75, are quite different. “The goal of our research center is to discover and disseminate information that’ll result in improved care of older people,” she explains. This includes converting scientific discoveries from laboratories into practical medical advances for patients, known as translational science. UCSF won an award for its work in this area in 2006, which supports a large part of the activities The late Dr. Harris Fishbon Dr. Herman Uhley of its Clinical Translational Sciences Institute. The Jewish Home became an affiliate of UCSF’s Clinical Translational Sciences Institute in 2008. Harris M. Fishbon Fund Dr. Schwartz believes that the new center’s research Although his field was internal medicine, Harris M. Fishbon will help in the following areas: was a doctor’s doctor, “the man physicians turned to when they needed medical help,” says Dr. Herman Uhley, Fishbon’s ʑʑProviding better medical therapies for depression partner for more than 20 years. Dr. Fishbon practiced for and dementia, and the testing of new therapies and 42 years at Mount Zion Hospital (now UCSF Medical Center diagnostic modalities at Mount Zion) and served as chief of medicine from 1966-68. ʑʑDeveloping new therapies such as vitamin D for When he died in 1979, the Harris M. Fishbon Fund was lowering cholesterol instead of or in combination established to enhance the practice of medicine through with statins, resulting in lowering of certain fellowships, dedicated chairs, and improving laboratories. side effects Drs. Uhley, Russell Tat, and Jeff Pearl are trustees of the Fund. ʑʑDetermining if genetics can help to improve medication therapy ʑʑImproving end-of-life care training, including the development of improved palliative care methods ʑʑDeveloping ways to address caregiver burden ʑʑUnderstanding why older people get more infections of individuals to bright light, for example, in the ʑʑImproving behavior of patients with dementia, environment in which they live, and see what changes especially by promoting nighttime sleep can be made to improve their lives,” Dr. Schwartz says. “The Jewish Home’s partnership with UCSF comes at With an average resident age of 86, the Jewish a crucial time,” she concludes. “It’ll allow us to recruit Home provides UCSF with the ideal setting for a additional experts and shine a spotlight on advances clinical research center devoted to the very oldest in care that are critical to improving the health of older patients, as well as a training ground for healthcare adults. We not only need to make new discoveries, but professionals. “The Home is unique because you can to translate that knowledge into clinical care. It’s a study interventions, diet, exercise, or the exposure perfect opportunity for this effort.”

National Institutes of Health (NIH) “challenge” grant is awarded to the Jewish Home of San Francisco Almost 20,000 applications were received in 2009 for the 229 National Institutes of Health (NIH) “challenge” grants in health and science research, being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). And one of them was awarded to Dr. Janice Schwartz, research director at the Jewish Home of San Francisco and clinical professor of medicine and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and her co-investigator, Dr. Michael Steinman, of UCSF’s division of geriatrics. They will receive two years of support totaling almost $900,000 to address the problems associated with medications in older Americans. To read the full article, visit our website: www.jhsf.org/research.

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 9 OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR IS A WORLD OF INTERESTS

Start talking to the new residents moving to Moldaw Family Residences at 899 Charleston in Palo Alto, Calif., and the common theme heard over and over again is “exploring.” Social gathering spots abound across Moldaw Family Residences The elements of this senior living and the campus, making it a thriving environment … community each resident wants to discover may be different, but the appeal of new experiences is shared.

Perhaps the reason exploration is part of use the health club and we’re looking forward to the everyone’s plan is that the unique Moldaw Family numerous lectures as part of the OFJCC, as well as Residences, located on the Taube Koret Campus the concerts and speakers at the cultural arts hall.” for Jewish Life, combines a world of interests “One of the hallmarks of this community is the just outside each person’s door. Because its flexibility and many options residents have – for private residences are intertwined among the participation with multiple generations on the various buildings and amenities of the campus, campus, while off-campus, there are programs Moldaw Family Residences offers a wide range we’re developing through area resources such as of opportunities and activities few senior living Stanford University,” says Daniel Ruth, executive communities in the nation can match. vice president of Moldaw Family Residences “Something we’re really interested in is the and president & CEO of the Jewish Home of San multigenerational interactions between the Francisco, which is centrally involved in the senior residents and the different people using the development of Moldaw Family Residences. “Our Oshman Family Jewish Community Center,” says residents feel life is an ongoing evolution, ongoing Henry Burger, who is moving from Los Altos, Calif., growth, and ongoing education. We’re providing to Moldaw Family Residences with his wife, Lottie. an environment that stimulates these aspects, “We’ll be with youngsters and seniors. We’ll certainly regardless of age.”

10 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 E x citing and E ntrepreneurial

David Friedman says his connection with the Jewish Home “runs long and deep.” He now turns over the chair of the board of trustees of Moldaw Family Residences to Larry Marks, who has served on the Jewish Home’s board of trustees for 10 years, as well as on the board of Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation. Both have been involved with the new complex since its inception.

Jewish Senior Living: Moldaw Family Residences is open and people are moving in. How does it feel?

Larry Marks: Wonderful! It fulfills our desire to have a Jewish living complex on the South Peninsula, along with a phenomenal opportunity to bring youth and elderly together on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life. And the project was completed on time and on budget, and that’s remarkable.

David Friedman: I agree. It’s an incredible accomplishment. It’s exactly what we’re looking for to expand the services of the Jewish Home. The concept of a multigenerational facility, such as the new campus, was … where generations connect, discover common interests, exciting and entrepreneurial. Nothing make new friends, and strengthen existing relationships. like it existed across the country. I’m extremely proud of the Jewish Home’s board for Indoors or outdoors, collectively or individually, understanding that this was exactly the right venture to physically or intellectually, Moldaw Family take on, even with many other things on our plate. Residences’ choices of interests, programs, and ences d pursuits are as diverse as the people calling the LM: We do have our challenges. One is the real estate community home. market. When we started the project, it was a seller’s esi

“We recognize that each of our residents brings market. Today, it’s taking people more time to sell their R a distinct personality and background to our homes in order to have the equity for entry into Moldaw community,” says Marilyn Israel, Moldaw Family Family Residences. Residences’ executive director. “Residents love ily the variety of activities in all the different settings, DF: Even so, I have the utmost confidence that Larry will m spaces, and venues of the campus. They want a lead this board forward. He’s passionate about the new mix of participating, attending and instructing, so facility, and his background in real estate management they have the opportunity to share their skills and makes him the perfect person to serve as chair of aw Fa teach what they know. We’re building on what the Moldaw Family Residences’ board. d residents themselves bring to this community.” For the Burgers, living at Moldaw Family

Residences is as much about who they can meet >>> Mol

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 11 The apartments that comprise Moldaw Family Residences are integrated both horizontally and vertically into the Taube Koret Campus … … and offer views of the multigenerational community, and beyond.

on campus as it is about what they can choose to Center for Adult Living and Learning, and the Albert & take part in. Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall. These sites will host “We already have three close, long-standing friends guest lecturers, plays, concerts, group meetings, and moving here, so it’ll be easier to get together with community gatherings and celebrations. ences them,” says Lottie Burger. “We’re looking forward to the “If we didn’t have the level of philanthropic support d companionship of having others around, and not having we’ve had to date, there would be no campus,” says to travel to see our friends. This’ll make us more ‘green’ Ruth. “The South Peninsula and San Francisco Jewish esi

R because we won’t have to drive as much.” communities have been extraordinarily supportive. Social gathering spaces abound across Moldaw This has made our vision come to fruition. Moldaw Family Residences and the Taube Koret Campus. The Family Residences has been enriched by the level of ily Burgers can meet friends for an evening meal in the involvement and support we’ve enjoyed.” m community’s full-service restaurant, either dining In fact, it was a $10 million gift in April 2008 from the indoors or on the extended outdoor terrace. They can Moldaw Family Supporting Foundation that led to the grab a bite at the campus café, or carry out food for a name of the community. Moldaw Family Residences has picnic in one of the adjacent courtyard gardens. Campus 193 maintenance-free apartments; 182 for independent aw Fa

d walkways and cross-bridges will lead them to children living and 11 for specialized memory support. As a playing in front of the on-campus daycare center, or they continuing care retirement community, Moldaw Family can gather with other residents in one of the exclusive Residences will also provide for residents’ future

Mol ‘pearl’ meeting spaces near each apartment. health care, if ever needed. Assisted living services are

Indoors or outdoors, collectively or individually, physically or intellectually, Moldaw Family Residences’ choices of interests, programs, and pursuits are as diverse as the people calling the community home.

Thanks to the generous support Moldaw Family available, and residents have priority access to skilled Residences and the Taube Koret Campus have received nursing care through an affiliation with the Jewish from the greater community, residents will enjoy venues Home of San Francisco. dedicated to their personal enrichment and fulfillment. Other generous gifts have helped Moldaw Family They can walk to the Oshman Family Jewish Community Residences create a strong wellness focus. Residents Center, which features the Richard and Rhoda Goldman can work on their personal fitness goals at the Goldman

12 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Sports and Wellness Complex, which houses a state- GRAND OPENING of-the-art fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools and gymnasium, and at a smaller, complementary CELEBRATIONS fitness area exclusively for residents. TAUBE KORET CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIFE “I like the fact that there’s such a variety of things geared toward people our age, giving us choices based on what we need and our capabilities,” says Paul Werner, who is moving to the community from Sunnyvale, Calif. “One of the classes I’m taking through Stanford is stretching exercises, which will be starting at the OFJCC on campus.” Even as the only Jewish-sponsored senior living community in the South Peninsula, Moldaw Family Residences is perfect for people of all faiths. “Moldaw Family Residences isn’t religiously based, but it is culturally based,” says Israel. “We’ll celebrate Jewish holidays, as well as other holidays, because we have a diverse population. The OFJCC will have classes for residents wanting to delve more into the Jewish religion, whether it’s their faith or not. Similarly, we have kosher dining available, as well as our chef presenting dishes from other cultures.” Martha and Michael Adler The setting of Moldaw Family Residences is also filled with opportunities to explore the Jewish faith and its rich traditions, as a number of Jewish organizations call the Taube Koret Campus home. Campus design elements incorporate a color scheme based on the Land of Israel, tile patterns representing the 12 tribes of Israel, and gardens and landscaping that are native to that country. Ruth says one of the most important elements of Moldaw Family Residences is that, while residents have choices in all aspects of the community, they also have a voice in what offerings develop around the campus. L. to R. James Koshland, Phyllis Moldaw, and Catherine Koshland. “When we first started the community’s design and development, we asked ourselves what’s Shelley Hébert and Stuart Klein best for seniors,” he explains. “Now our intent is to implement programs and services that are meaningful to residents’ lives. We want them to be active participants in shaping its ongoing growth and direction.” Moldaw Family Residences has a variety of apartment sizes and floor plans available, although it continues to fill up quickly. For more information on how this community fits your lifestyle and your 2009 hy, hy, diverse interests, please call 650.433.3629. Private p tours of Moldaw Family Residences, located at East Charleston and San Antonio roads in Palo Alto, are y Photogra y available by appointment. Community information k is also available at www.899charleston.org. >>> ScottLas Grand opening celebrations L. to R. Harry and Carol Saal, Susan Steiner,Susan and Nate Saal. Saal, toand Harry Carol L. R. and Gladys Monroy.and Gladys toArlene L. R. and Stephan Krieger, Shelley Shelley and Loren Saxe Phyllis FriedmanPhyllis Meyer and Paulette Don Don and Ruth Seiler Profile in Commitment

A vivacious and warm Susan Koret arrives for her photo shoot at the Jewish Home bearing gifts – packages of Danish pastries, one for the staff with whom she will be meeting and another for Stanley Herzstein, a Jewish Home resident and longtime member of the Koret Foundation’s board, whom she will visit. “He’s an old friend,” she says, “and he worked with my husband longer than anyone else.”

The widow of Joseph Koret and the board chair for life of the Koret Foundation, Susan is visiting the place that was one of her husband’s favorite organizations. “Supporting the Jewish Home is exactly what he would want,” she says. “It’s in keeping with his values.”

Through the years, the Koret Foundation has been extremely generous to the Home. When the Koret Foundation was established in 1979, the Jewish Home was the recipient of one of the Foundation’s first grants. “It’s been a love affair ever since,” says Susan. “The Foundation is proud to be a part of the Jewish Home family.” >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 15 Exterior of the Koret Center. In 2008, a new grant from the Koret Foundation supplied funding for the Home to renovate units within the center.

A plaque memorializing Joseph Koret’s philanthropy graces the lobby of the Jewish Home’s Koret Center.

The widow of Joseph Koret and the board chair for life of the Koret Foundation, Susan Koret is visiting the place that was one of her husband’s favorite organizations. “Supporting the Jewish Home is exactly what he would want,” she says. “It’s in keeping with his values.”

With help from the Koret Foundation, the Home When Joe designated her as board chair of the serves residents needing maximum nursing care Koret Foundation, Susan remembers being a bit in its Koret Center. In 2008, a new grant from the uncomfortable at first. But today she is so glad Foundation for $1.5 million supplied funding for and proud of the role she plays carrying out her the Home to renovate units within the center. “The husband’s wishes. “My husband cared about the refurbished Koret wing will support a better quality little people, the people who don’t know how to of life for our elderly,” Susan comments. “It’s so ask for help,” she says. “He felt that no one should important to provide the best care for our elderly go to bed hungry.” He also loved animals and family members.” funded the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at

usan Koret Susan grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and came Hebrew University, the only veterinary school in S to the United States in 1974. She married Joe in the Middle East. 1979 and the two were devoted to one another. She Besides her deep involvement in the work of the remembers overhearing Joe tell a friend, ‘I wake up Foundation, Susan serves as an ear and shoulder in the morning and think, What can I do for my Susie to her friends. “We share problems and we laugh today?’ That’s the kind of relationship I had with my together,” says the woman who loves to laugh. She husband. We always looked out for one another.” is also something of an expert on restaurants. Susan converted to Judaism when she married May we call for restaurant recommendations? Joe. “He was a good man,” she says of her husband. “Absolutely,” she laughs. She recalls visiting Israel with him – a first time for both of them – and how excited he was.

16 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 100 Years of Pride and Joy Photo:Ray Scotty Morris

To celebrate his 90th birthday ten years ago, Theodore ‘Ted’ Rosenberg arranged to have a fireworks display in the ballroom of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel where the party took place. For his 100th birthday in January 2009, actor and performer Joel Gray entertained guests who had gathered at the Opera House for another of Ted’s “once-in-a-lifetime” events.

“My wife, Rose, says for my 101st birthday we’re going to McDonald’s,” laughs Ted, who, as this article is written, is only three months away from eating his first Big Mac. >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 17 Ted and Rose have been celebrating his ABM grew exponentially over the years, and centennial all year. Coincidentally, 2009 is also the today is the largest company of its kind in the 100th birthday of American Building Maintenance – country, with more than 100,000 employees and now known as ABM Industries Incorporated sales of $3.6 billion. Along the way, when the Bay (NYSE:ABM) – the company his father, Morris, Bridge was built, ABM installed the lighting and founded the year Ted was born. In honor of both Ted’s mother, Gussie, was the first person to turn

osenberg birthdays, Ted rang the closing bell above the floor on the lights, the night before the governor of R

of the New York Stock Exchange on September 9. California made it official. With so many dignitaries

d “It was quite thrilling, and brought back many in attendance at the 1936 opening of the bridge,

e wonderful memories,” he tells. Ted also rang the the powers-that-be wanted ABM to test the T closing bell when ABM was first listed on the system beforehand, so they called on Gussie for a exchange in 1971. memorable dry run. “Everything went perfectly – “I’ve had a wonderful life,” he says from the both times,” Ted recollects. home he built 35 years ago in Atherton, Calif. Rose, Sadly, 17 ABM employees were killed when his darling wife of 11 years, is sitting nearby, and the World Trade Center in New York City was Sushi, the Shih Tzu puppy she gave him on their attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. At anniversary three years ago, keeps them company. that time, ABM employed more than 300 janitors, Ted resigned from ABM’s board of directors last window washers, electricians, and other building March, after 82 years with the company. At that time, maintenance personnel at the WTC site, most of he was the oldest and longest-serving director on whom worked nights and weekends to serve the the board of any NYSE-listed company. His career facility 24/7. ABM employees, suppliers, and other with ABM actually began immediately after his friends of the company donated over $500,000 to graduation from Polytechnic High School in the help the families who had lost loved ones. vicinity of Golden Gate Park. His father wanted him Although no one from Ted’s family has been to go to college, but Ted insisted on going to work. a Jewish Home resident, he has been a generous In turn, Morris insisted his son learn the business supporter for many years. Ted and Rose made a special gift to the Home in honor of his 100th birthday. Morris Rosenberg insisted his son, Ted, learn the “My own impression is that being in the company business “from the floor up” and sent him off of others instead of being isolated encourages to what was then a rural academic institution, people to remain more active and productive, which Stanford University – to be a janitor. adds quality and happiness to their lives,” Ted says. “I’m very grateful to the Jewish Home for providing exceptional service to such deserving residents.” “from the floor up” and sent him off to what was then a rural academic institution, Stanford University – to be a janitor. ABM had contracted with the university to clean their facilities, and had even constructed a dormitory for its workers on campus, which is where Ted ate and slept alongside the other janitors. “I lasted about two weeks, and then told Dad I was ready to learn the business aspects of the business,” he recounts. After a short stint at Heald Business College, Ted embarked on his real education. He sat across from his father and followed him around. That firsthand training served him well, for eight years later, when Ted was just 26 years old, Morris died and Ted became president of the company. Meanwhile, Ted’s younger brother, Sydney, went off to college – first Stanford, then Harvard Business School – and thereafter joined Ted at the helm of the company. Ted and Rose Rosenberg celebrating Ted's 100th. 18 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Dr. Jay Luxenberg, the Home’s medical director (left), and Dr. Michael Geiser, chief of psychiatry, keep an eye on renovations to the acute psychiatric wing. When it opens, it will Filling become the only psychiatric unit in the city dedicated to serving those aged 65 and older. the “It’s ironic that we’re talking today,” said Dr. Mary DeMay, a geriatric psychiatrist at the Jewish Home of San Francisco. That was in August 2009 and she had been on the phone for several hours trying to find a placement for an elderly patient with a neuro-degenerative illness, who Gap needed immediate hospitalization – to no avail. California Pacific Medical Center, the only hospital that served this population, had closed its unit. Other facilities, that are less appropriate for seniors, were full.

When the Jewish Home’s new acute psychiatric wing opens, it will became the only psychiatric unit in the city dedicated to serving those aged 65 and older. With new licensing, permitting the Home to admit both voluntary and involuntary patients for acute, short-stay needs, the Home is filling a huge gap in medical care for elders. >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 19 For some time, the Home has contracted with Kaiser Permanente to receive senior patients agreeing to be admitted to the Home for acute psychiatric services. “With the change in licensing,” notes Dr. Michael Geiser, the Home’s chief of psychiatry, “we’ll serve a large population of people who, for whatever reasons – maybe it’s the severity of their illness – can’t nit give consent.” U With funding in full from the Koret Foundation, a major renovation project associated with the Home’s Koret Center began in April 2009. “We’ll now have a clearly identifiable 12-person acute psychiatric unit that is egress-controlled, with up-to- date monitoring equipment, nursing stations, and patient rooms,” says Dr. Geiser. “In other words, it’s a hospital,” explains Dr. Jay Luxenberg, the Home’s medical director. “People in the community want to be admitted to a hospital when they’re ill, not a nursing home.” Under the direction of Sasha Glezerman, RN, cute Psychiatric

A associate director of acute psychiatry, staff at the Home – from nurses and social workers, to security, maintenance and housekeeping, anyone who might Dr. Mary DeMay, a geriatric psychiatrist at the Home, work on the unit – has undergone special training on is looking forward to the completion of the how to manage various types of patient behavior. Notes refurbished acute psychiatric unit. Dr. Luxenberg: “We’ve taken the time to train all levels of staff to serve a different population.”

The establishment of a special psychiatric unit to treat elderly patients at the Jewish Home, where doctors and staff specialize in the care of the elderly, and where the environment is more conducive to healing, makes sense.

Psychiatric disorders in the elderly may be the result of complex medical illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease. Dementia, paranoia, depression, anxiety, and confusion are also among the many issues that are dealt with. The establishment of a special psychiatric unit to treat elderly patients at the Jewish Home, where doctors and staff specialize in the care of the elderly, and where the environment is more conducive to healing, makes sense, according to Dr. Luxenberg. “A general hospital psychiatric unit is often loud, and populated by people with substance-abuse problems or the potential for physical violence. Just as elderly people wouldn’t do well at a rap concert, for instance, the kind of environment at a general hospital’s psych unit is wrong for a fragile older person. Our acute psychiatric unit enables the Jewish Home to serve those who haven't been well-served in the past.”

20 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Mitzvah Maker

A family affair ­­– on their way to an affair. In this earlier photo, Neil Blumenthal and his sister, Carole Shostak, flank their late parents, Dorothy and Harry Blumenthal.

“My father had some time on his hands, so he began to volunteer at the Home.” That is how Neil Blumenthal remembers the beginning of his late father Harry’s – in fact, the whole Blumenthal family’s – enduring connection with the Jewish Home.

For Harry, that first volunteer job was the beginning Harry not only contributed to the Home through of many years of both dedicated support and service to his volunteerism, he was also a generous financial the Jewish Home, including a six-year stint, from 1985 to supporter. For many years he sponsored two annual 1991, on the Home’s board of directors. birthday luncheons for the residents – one celebrating “He really loved it,” Neil recalls. “He got such joy out his wife Dorothy’s birthday and one his own. And he of helping others.” encouraged others to support the Home as well, says >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 21 HONOR

Neil. As a result, both of Harry’s children – Neil and his sister, Harry Blumenthal donated a Tree of Life sculpture in 1999 in Carole Shostak – along with Harry’s brother, Hillie, now 92, honor of his wife, Dorothy. Recently, a second Tree of Life was donated by his children, Neil Blumenthal and Carole Shostak. have followed in his footsteps. Harry also established the Harry and Dorothy Blumenthal Mitzvah Fund, which filled a variety of needs at the Home for many years. Noting that his father was a close friend of Jerry Levine, the Home’s former longtime executive director, Neil recollects: “If the Home needed something small, such as a hairdryer or a piece of equipment, Jerry could turn to my dad and the Mitzvah Fund. The money was there for it.” Although Harry died in 2002, the fund remains an important part of his legacy. “When it gets low, I fill it up a bit,” Neil says. Harry never lived at the Jewish Home himself, but his sister, Eva Robinson, did. “My Aunt Eva, who passed away a few years ago at the age of 103, loved it there,” says Neil. He relates a story about one particular visit he made to his aunt at the Home. “She couldn’t wait to show me the painting ily she’d done in the Home’s creative arts center. I was so

m surprised Aunt Eva was now a painter that my first response was, ‘Where did you learn to do that?’ She was so proud!” While Harry’s legacy continues to provide for residents through the Mitzvah Fund, it is also apparent in the beautiful Tree of Life sculpture he donated in 1999 in honor of his wife, and which graces a corridor in the Home. Recently, Neil and Carole donated a second Tree of Life sculpture in memory of enthal Fa their beloved parents. m “My father was a wonderful man,” says Neil, “and he was a firm believer in the Jewish Home.” lu B

22 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 er d on Mar d HOPE hel S abbi R

DOORWAYS OF HOPE How Jewish tradition can sustain us in the land of dementia

Excerpts from the keynote address given by the Jewish Home’s Rabbi Sheldon Marder at Temple Chai, Phoenix, Ariz., April 26, 2009.

… We need to acknowledge why it is so difficult to talk about faith, hope, and God in the midst of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is relentless in putting our religion and our theologies to the test. One writer has even named Alzheimer’s “the theological disease,” because of the fierce challenges it poses to our beliefs about what it means to be a human being created by God. >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 23 For Jews in particular, dementia What else does our tradition have to offer? In a little raises thorny theological issues. gem of a book about Jewish spirituality, Rabbi Samuel One that especially troubles me Dresner takes the emphasis off the mind and directs our is our self-image as “the people attention to another precious sign of the image of God – of the Book” – a people to whom the human soul. In Prayer, Humility and Compassion learning and literacy are central. (1957), he writes: What happens to a Jew who can no longer read the Book? What “Man is like a cord tied at two ends: bound to the earth becomes of her relationship through his body and to heaven through his soul. He is to the Jewish people, to Jewish partly animal through the physical aspect of his being history, and to God when she and partly angel through the spiritual aspect of his cannot read the Bible, the being. He is mortal yet immortal, transient yet eternal, prayers, or the Haggadah? filled at once with misery and grandeur. …”

… How, then, do we touch the soul, the divine element in every human being? How can we find the grandeur amidst so much misery?

… According to Maimonides, … Empathy, relationship, creativity. These are my when God said, “Let us make three doorways into the land of dementia, my three Even as his father neared the end of man in our image,” God was suggestions for touching the divine soul of the man his life, Rabbi Sheldon Marder found a way to “remain in relationship.” referring to the intellect. Our or woman in “the valley of trouble.” Each doorway is

“Empathy, relationship, and creativity. These are the ingredients of a Judaism that is habilitative for people with dementia, a Judaism that can help a person hold on to what remains, for as long as possible.”

likeness to God, he said, is not physical, it is mental. e Does this mean that the person with dementia p becomes, in the course of his illness, an increasingly o

H flawed and, in the words of Rabbi Hershel Matt, a petach tikvah – an opening of hope. None of these “fading image of God”? doorways depend on the learning, literacy, and memory f so central to the Judaism most of us practice. Therefore, … And then there is the loss of memory. What is the I want to suggest that dementia requires a different Jewish religion without the memory of the exodus from kind of Judaism. Egypt? … What is Judaism without yizkor and kaddish, our cherished prayers of remembrance? Who are we Poet Tess Gallagher, who was the caregiver during her if we no longer remember the Sabbath day, to keep it mother’s 17 years of Alzheimer’s, writes that during holy? If we no longer remember the evil wrought by that time she and her mother achieved something Haman and Hitler? Who are we when we cannot share surprising: “We moved beyond forgetting. … From stage Doorways o the collective Jewish memory of slavery in the land to stage I kept insisting, until I did manage to stimulate of Egypt? both doctors and caregivers toward the sense that, even though her condition might be ‘hopeless’ in the … We are a people of the book, a people of intellect, a ultimate sense of what medicine could offer, there people of memory. Learning and remembrance have were still unexplored things we could do to make life been effective Jewish survival strategies for centuries. better for her.” (Beyond Forgetting, ed. Holly J. Hughes, But we also have to recognize that these strategies, 2009) This daughter hoped for something better for her which place the mind at the center of religious life, mother: a life that was less confusing, more secure, and cannot function for a Jew facing dementia. more attentive to her mother’s feelings.

24 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Tess Gallagher’s relationship with her mother smallest neighborhood branch, was like a sanctuary during those 17 years is a beautiful example of what for him – my father’s holy of holies. … So now, in the professionals in this field call habilitative care. The middle of his illness, in the middle of his dementia, we goal of rehabilitation is to restore abilities and skills began our weekly visits to the library. It always felt like in a person who has lost them. Habilitative care a pilgrimage. focuses on preserving what remains. A person who can paint, knit or enjoy word games is encouraged to do … One morning, during one of these outings, my father these activities regularly; missing one day of activity became very serious and said he wanted to tell me can mean losing the skill forever. Habilitative care is something about his illness. I remember it clearly life-affirming and hopeful. because this happened only once. And here is what he said: “Shelly, I feel as though there is a veil between me When I think about caregivers like Tess (and I have and the rest of the world. Everything seems hazy. I just known many like her), I feel that we need a better name can’t break through the veil.” for what they do. In Hebrew, we do have a term for spiritual caregivers, My father couldn’t break through

people who tend to the souls of the veil; his illness wouldn’t let him. er

others. We call such people k’lei I cried when he said those words d kodesh – vessels of holiness. For to me. I cried because I realized them, caregiving is more than an how upset he was, and because obligation, it is a calling. my father hardly ever shared his deepest feelings with me. I realized

Empathy, relationship, and that he was giving me the best gift, on Mar

creativity. These are the the only gift, he could offer me in d ingredients of a Judaism that the midst of his anguish and fear. is habilitative for people with My father was opening his heart. hel

dementia, a Judaism that can He could not break through, but he S help a person hold on to what was inviting me to join him behind remains, for as long as possible. the veil. Rather than allow Judaism to fail us Jack Marder, of blessed memory, father of abbi the Home’s Rabbi Sheldon Marder.

when we need it most, “habilitative Ever since that day, I’ve been R Judaism” – with a focus on touching trying to figure out how to do that, the soul – makes our religion relevant in our care for searching for ways we can join the people we love in people with dementia. their loneliness and solitude behind the veil. After many

“My father was opening his heart. He could not break through, but he was inviting me to join him behind the veil.”

My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease before he was 60. … Later, he was given another diagnosis, dementia with Lewy bodies. My father lived with the illness for more than 20 years. He spent the last years of trying, I know it is possible. Given enough time, few of those years at the Jewish Home, happily creating and patience and compassion, we can find a way in. We bright and colorful abstract paintings in the Home’s can remain in relationship, even as life changes and creative arts program. … illness progresses. We can continue to see the image of God within the human being before us. Even in dark Somewhere in the middle of his illness, when he could places there can be moments of beauty and dignity. no longer travel even short distances by himself, he Believe me when I tell you there are openings in the veil. asked a favor of me, something he rarely did. What Doorways of hope. was the favor? He wanted me to drive him to the public –Rabbi Sheldon Marder library near his apartment. … Any library, even the Director of Jewish Life, Jewish Home of San Francisco

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 25 They’re STARS in her Eyes

Jeanette Brooks had only spent part of one day at the Jewish Home but she was already singing its praises.

“When my son and I visited my mother the night after she was admitted, she started telling me how wonderful it was,” says Alexa Suslow. “They were going to bring her two different dishes for dinner. She was thrilled.” That was the beginning of an ongoing campaign by the Home’s staff – worthy of any Jewish mother – “to fatten up my mother,” continues Alexa. Jeanette was admitted to the Jewish Home’s STARS unit (short-term and rehabilitation services) for rehabilitation after her hospital treatment for a recurrence of metastatic breast cancer. The plan was for Jeanette to stay for a week or two so that she could ervices regain her strength before returning to her Noe Valley S home. Unfortunately, Jeanette did not recover, and spent the remaining months of her life at the Home. “My mother had a tough time in the last year and a half of her life,” relates Alexa. “It was such a blessing she went to the Jewish Home. It was the only reason I could sleep at night. I knew she was there, that she’d be treated well, and would have excellent care.” The staff was kind to Alexa and her family as well, she notes. “They comforted us. They took us under

ehabilitation their wing and tried to make it as easy as possible.

R And they also worried about whether we were

eating enough.” d Alexa vaguely remembered the Jewish Home from years before, when her husband’s grandmother had an been a resident, but it had not occurred to her that m it might be a good place for her mother to receive

er care. Jeanette’s doctors knew the Jewish Home had

T opened a unit for transitional care for seniors leaving a hospital, but who were not quite ready to return home. They recommended it for Jeanette. “When my son and I walked onto the unit, hort- everything was immaculate,” recalls Alexa of their S first visit. There was a well-rounded program of rehabilitative care, including in-place physical therapy designed to return her mother to self-sufficiency.

26 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 That was the beginning of an ongoing campaign by the Home’s staff – worthy of any Jewish mother – “to fatten up my mother.”

Even though STARS is designed for temporary care, when the team realized Jeanette would not be able to return home, she remained on this unit. “My mother had the same people caring for her from admission to the end of her life,” says a grateful Alexa. Jeanette wanted the Jewish Home to be named as a beneficiary in her obituary. “My mother worked in the medical field for many years,” Alexa says. “She’d helped others and she recognized she was in a place where people cared so well for her.”

Jeanette Brooks pictured at a wedding reception in 2005, with her son-in-law, Lamont Suslow.

Alexa Suslow (center) visited the Jewish Home’s STARS unit to thank RN Arlene Palencia (left) and CNA Beth Nguyen (right) for the wonderful care they gave her mother, Jeanette Brooks.

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 27 Golf Tournament, Dinner and Auction 2009

At the Jewish Home’s 15th Annual Golf Tournament, held at the beautiful Lake Merced Golf Club in May 2009, close to 200 supporters of the Home teed off for golf, then celebrated their triumphs (or perhaps analyzed their near-wins) during the delicious dinner and fun auction that followed the day on the green.

Bonnie Pearlman (above) and Don Pearlman (right), 2009 tournament tee sponsors. Bonnie served on the committee and Don played the role of auctioneer Benefactor sponsors Cupertino Electric. L. to R. David Nielsen, to perfection – raising his gavel Terry Bartlett, Serge Karageorgiou, and Tom McIntosh. to encourage greater acts of generosity, raising the level of “Great people, great food, and a fantastic time!” is how Terry enjoyment with his line of patter, Bartlett summed up his experience of the tournament. and raising over $15,000 at the auction for the Jewish Home.

28 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Committee member Ben Anixter made sure the 2009 tournament was even more exciting and effective by introducing a raffle component, which generated $10,000 for the Home. Not only did Ben underwrite the administration of the raffle, Participating in such a worthy endeavor as the but he donated the prize – Jewish Home’s annual golf tournament should be a timelessly elegant men’s rewarded by having this chip shot land in the hole. Rolex watch.

With thanks to the tremendously hardworking tournament committee, our sponsors and all tournament participants, the event raised over $190,000 – the most in the tournament’s history – to support the activities and programs that make the Jewish Home renowned for the care it provides seniors.

Presenting sponsors Lea and Allen Orwitz flank their nephew, Mark Myers, 2007 – 2009 chair of the Jewish Home’s board of trustees.

Patron sponsor Pieter Kruit (left) shows off his mixing talents. Pieter and colleague Joanna Considine (center), of Pieter Kruit Painting, volunteered their time at the Tarantula Tequila bar. Jacob Levy (right) enjoys a blue margarita, courtesy of Tarantula Tequila and Terye Levy, who donated the well-patronized beverage station. Peter Pollat, 2009 tournament chair. Peter can take enormous pride and pleasure in having chaired the Home’s most successful tournament to date. Shirley and Ben Eisler, 2009 tournament committee members and tee sponsors. Up to the Challenge

“Golf is the most rewarding yet most challenging thing I’ve taken up in the past 10 years,” states Ben Eisler.

He also believes the Jewish Home’s annual golf Ben and Shirley have been connected with the tournament, dinner, and auction is an excellent idea. Jewish Home since Ben’s grandfather became a “It’s a great event for people who may not otherwise resident when he was 92. “He liked it there,” recalls be aware of the Home, and it’s a good way to reach Shirley, “and staff took good care of him.” out to the community.” Today, Ben serves on the Home’s board of “This tournament was the best I’ve ever been in,” trustees. He finds changes in the medical world and says Ben’s wife, Shirley, whose impressive score gave keeping a non-profit afloat are among the many her first place, low net foursome, in B flight play. challenges for the board. But the goal – to provide

“This tournament was the best I’ve ever been in,” says Shirley Eisler, whose impressive score gave her first place, low net foursome, in B flight play.

“It’s a fun, happy day. You can play golf, or just quality of life and meaning for seniors – is one the come to the dinner and auction that follow,” she Jewish Home meets. adds. Volunteers extraordinaire, the Eislers also “The Jewish Home is a worthwhile, heartwarming, served on the tournament committee and were and satisfying organization. It has all the elements, tee sponsors of the event. While Shirley focused and Shirley and I are happy to contribute in some her skills on the dinner and décor, Ben rounded up small way.” tournament sponsors.

30 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Pictured at the 2009 event are (left to right) tee Sponsors Bonnie Pearlman and Shirley Eisler; Marcia Eisner, Vicki Klapper, Joanne Bernstein, and Gayle Blum.

The 2010 golf tournament committee invites non-golfers to attend the dinner banquet on Monday, May 10, 5:30 p.m. at The Peninsula Golf & Country Club. “This stand-alone event is a wonderful opportunity to get together with old friends in the Jewish Home’s community,” says banquet chair Shirley Eisler. “Come enjoy the festive cocktail hour, elegant and delicious fare, and exciting auction. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!”

16th Annual Golf Tournament Dinner & Auction

Save the Date Monday May 10 2010

benefiting Edie Sadewitz, one of the Jewish Home’s many talented resident artists, donated the above painting, san francisco and invites all bidders to vie for it at the 2010 golf tournament’s auction event on May 10. Going once ... Going twice ... Sold!

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 31 Jim Weslow, Jewish Home’s director of Rehabilitation Services (above left), wants the renovated rehabilitation center to be the premier place in the Bay Area. Design for Life Imagine moving into a small apartment as newlyweds, then trying to accommodate a growing family and its accompanying paraphernalia in the same space. Rehabilitation Services. The center’s 9,000 square feet, developed in 1969, provides areas for physical, That could be an analogy for the situation the occupational, and speech therapies; fitness training; Jewish Home’s rehabilitation department is in at minimal storage; and three small offices for the present. The rehabilitation center is 40 years old. department’s staff of 18. Increasing the center’s And while the equipment has been updated over size will allow for spaces where the therapists will the years, the space allotted to this essential do their private, individual evaluations or work with medical service – critical to the well-being of people who are easily distracted, and quiet areas residents – has remained the same. where the speech therapists will work on patients’ The Home is about to change this with the communication skills. launching of an initiative to raise $2.3 million to At the Jewish Home, a significant portion of increase the size of the rehabilitation center by elder care is focused on helping residents retain 3,500 square feet. both their physical and mental capabilities that “The rehabilitation center is showing its age, support active engagement in the world around outgrowing its capacity to fully contain the them. Rehabilitation therapy plays a key role in breadth of services necessary to serve both our helping the elderly achieve their highest level of long-term residents and the growing number of independence and quality of life. One threat to the short-term rehabilitation patients in our new well-being of the elderly is falling; poor balance and STARS unit,” says Jim Weslow, MPA, PT, director of muscle weakness, major factors that contribute to

32 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 On any given day, some 200 residents and 30 short-term rehabilitation patients will be working under the supervision of trained therapists to develop their strength, balance, and activities related to daily-living skills. bad falls, can be addressed by increasing physical On any given day, some 200 residents and 30 strength, improving balance, and promoting short-term rehabilitation patients will be working flexibility through rehabilitative treatment. under the supervision of trained therapists to e f

Resident Rudy Hooremans, 85, could be held up develop their strength, balance, and activities i as a model for the rehabilitation center. When he related to daily-living skills. One person may be L arrived at the Home over five years ago, he could not walking with a specialized cane to ensure he can walk, move his arms, or care for himself. He had lost maintain his gait after a stroke, another may be or all hope. His treatment regimen, which he dubbed doing balance exercises for fall-prevention, while f his “daily torture,” began at once. Two years later he someone else may be practicing retrieving objects could move his arms, take care of himself, and walk from different surfaces to improve fine motor skills. with the aid of a walker. “The bottom line is, we’re trying to improve each “Thanks to the Home’s physical, occupational and individual’s quality of life,” explains Jim. speech therapists, and some hard work on my part, Upgrading the rehabilitation center’s space Design my body has regenerated,” says Rudy. Nowadays will enable the Home to fully support the entire he is painting in the Home's Eugene Friend & Julian spectrum of rehabilitation needs of each of its Davis Creative Arts Center, volunteering in the residents and short-term patients. “Our goal,” states garden café, playing cards with friends, walking to Jim, “is for the renovated rehabilitation center to the neighborhood drug store, and most importantly, be the premier place for skilled nursing care in the taking his granddaughter out for a hamburger. Bay Area.”

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 33 Planned Giving

Leaving a Legacy

Joan Sachs The Jewish Home’s Legacy Gift Society Neither Joan Sachs nor her husband, Roger, who predeceased recognizes individuals whose visionary her, or their family members, had ever lived at the Jewish philanthropy in their estate planning will Home. In fact, there is no record of any relationship with the help provide a secure future for the Jewish organization. But when Joan died in 2009 at the age of 92, she Home of San Francisco and its mission to left her entire estate to the Jewish Home. enrich the quality of life of older adults. Joan was born in Germany and escaped Hitler’s army when The Society brings these individuals she was able to immigrate to the United States in the early together with those whose legacies 1940s. Her brother and father were not so fortunate, and they have been assured after their passing. died in Germany. She worked for Koret of California from 1944 to 1948. We especially remember Captain Julius Friedman. He Roger had moved to France in the 1930s and fought with was one of the Jewish Home’s earliest benefactors and the resistance. When he moved to San Francisco, he met and showed particular concern for the elderly Jews of San married Joan, and opened a fabric store on Geary Blvd., near Francisco. Proceeds from his estate provided the first Union Square. major legacy gift for the Home, resulting in the acquisition In 1981, the couple made their wills. They did not have of the land and subsequent construction in 1923 of the family and decided to leave their estate – and their legacy – pillared building on the Home’s Silver Avenue campus. to the Jewish Home.

Becoming a member of the Society is a simple two-step process:

1. Include the Jewish Home in your estate plans – by bequest We thank the Sheila Audrey Blecher in your will or trust; beneficiary designation of your following members Samuel S. Borman of the Captain Julius Margot E. Braun retirement plan or life insurance; or life income gift. Charlie and Herbert Brown Friedman Society for Iris Bulasky 2. Inform us of the plans you have made. their goodheartedness Ann and Herman Burger and foresight. Galina and Alexander Capelson Rita Horn and Dennis Cassan For more information, please contact Daniel Helen M. Adler Shari Chamitoff Maureen E. Adler Belle and Jeffrey Cohen Hoebeke, planned giving officer, at 415.406.1434, Millie and Aron Aronovsky Harold Combs or via e-mail to [email protected]. Jakob A. Atlas Rowena W. Cooper Marion Baer Helaine and Richard Darling Judy and Bret Bantz Charlie Davis Patricia and Ernest Belden Roslyn R. Dienstein Randi and Robert Belot Linda Diller Jeanne and Daniel Benatar Diane and William Ehrlich Helle and David Berger Sara and Harold Epstein Janice and Dennis Berkowitz Irene K. Epstein Joan and Burton Berry Laurel and Elliott Feigenbaum Samuel D. Berzin Rhoda Feldman

34 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Arthur Zimmerman Diane and William Ehrlich Arthur Zimmerman kept a list of sayings he liked in his Palm Diane Ehrlich’s mother lived at the Jewish Home for more than Pilot. Among them, says his daughter, Nancy Zimmerman five years. “We chose it because of its reputation,” Diane says. Pechner, were two that particularly described his outlook on After Diane’s father died, her mother decided to put philanthropy: “The joy is in the giving.” “He who gives when he her name on the Home’s waiting list for the future. “When lives also knows where it goes.” my mom fell and broke her hip, she was able to move into Arthur was the founder of Zim’s restaurants, a real-estate the Home,” Diane continues. The Home offered a range of entrepreneur, and a Jewish community leader. He was treatments for her mother’s physical problems, as well as known for his warmth and gregariousness, as well as for his recreational programs. The adjustment was initially hard for generosity. He was brought up in San Francisco by immigrant her mother, Diane recollects, “but then she got involved in parents who modeled tzedakah (righteous giving). “You should activities, and she played the piano every day for as long as always be as charitable as your circumstances may permit,” she wanted.” they counseled him. Diane was so pleased with the care her mother received In their lifetimes, Arthur and his wife, Alice, created a living that she has included the Jewish Home as a beneficiary in trust, establishing a charitable remainder trust in Alice’s her will. name, which included the Jewish Home as a beneficiary. “It “I know that meeting the budget these days is difficult, but was important for my dad to give back to the community, hopefully the Home won’t get my gift for a while,” Diane quips. especially the Jewish community,” says Nancy. “Being Jewish was the strongest part of his identity.” Through their charitable trust, the Jewish Home will benefit from Arthur and Alice’s generosity for many years to come.

Barbara and George Finck Gail S. Grossman Ida and Oleg Kipnis Rosario and Sydney Malkoo Abrea and Lloyd Firestone Hyman Gurman Helen Landsman and Robert Kirby Lisa and Robert Maloff Doris Flamm Liane Ofenham-Hall and John Hall Ruth and Heinz Kochman Irving Manis Helene Fleck Irene and Stephen Halpern Sidney S. Konigsberg Victor L. Marcus Ana C. Florez Craig Headman Elena and Alexander Korot Lillian Markinson Max Frank Mary and Douglas Heller Nadine and Roy Koss Gladys and Larry Marks Kathryn and Richard Friedman Sheila Hochman Arlene and Steve Krieger Melanie R. Marks Walter Fuchs Stephen R. Holman Beatrice and Henry Krivetsky Albert Martin Lya Galperin Margo Horn Valentina Kuznetsova Andrea Wright and David Marzane Rowena and Bud Gansel Charlotte and Jerome Hyman and Viktor Kuznetsov Eleanor and Jerome Mednick Gay O. Glikman Roselynn and Steve Itelson Hedi Langfelder Diane and Jeremy Merrill Devorah I. Goldberg Ahuva and Emanuel Jolish Ann and James Lazarus Carol Michaelis Judy H. Golding Susan Julius Larry M. Letofsky Galina and Michael Milgran Jeannette Goldner Svetlana and Bob Kaff Barbara and Morton Levinson Letitia and Gary Morris Norma and Claude Goldsmith Ronald Kahn Shanna Levinson Roslyn and Mervin Morris Eva M. Goldsmith Barbara and Donald Kamler Rosanne and Alvin Levitt Nannette Moss Deborah and Ronald Gordon Rima Kantorov Jacquelyn Levy Ann and Joseph Nadel Svetlana and Arkady Gozberg Walter Kaplan Helen and Herman Lewin Esther and Henri Nahoum Robert L. Greenberg Yuri Kaplun Carol Eisenberg Peter Neubauer Phyllis and Jerry Greenblatt Ellen L. Katske and Raymond Linkerman Jan and Robert Newman Patricia P. Greenhood Nancy and Kenneth Kaye Paula and Wayne Magliozzi Jeremiah Nissim >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 35 Planned Giving

Liane Ofenham-Hall Raymond Levy Liane Ofenham-Hall wanted to make a contribution to the Raymond Levy has been practicing law in San Francisco Jewish Home that would last, so she set up a perpetual for 55 years and in that time, he says, he has worked with a endowment through the Jewish Community Federation’s great number of people. When the topic of charity comes Endowment Fund in the names of her parents, Ben and Reva up during an estate-planning discussion, “I can’t tell people Iscoff, and late husband, Michael Ofenham. She designated it which charities to designate,” he remarks, “but I’m at liberty to for recreational activities at the Home and she funds it annually. mention the Jewish Home.” She also intends to include the Home in her estate plans. Raymond is very familiar with the Jewish Home. Over the “It’s not a million dollars,” she says modestly of her ongoing years, nearly a dozen friends, relatives, and clients of his have beneficence, “but it’s enough to go on an outing every year.” resided there. “I know full well the Home’s care and cordiality, The Jewish Home has been a part of Liane’s life for many how attentive the staff is, how courteous they are at all times.” years. It began when an aunt, her father’s sister, became a His mother-in-law was one of the residents he visited. “She resident. “My father went to see her often and began visiting would take us to the coffee shop, and as she had an account others, too. He then decided to set up a blackjack game for there, she could treat us to lunch or a snack. It gave her a sense residents, as another way for them to socialize and have of independence.” fun,” she recalls. “My mother was also involved, and then my Affirming that he is “sufficiently positive” about the Home, husband and I ran a bingo game one night a week.” Raymond mentions another connection: his oldest son used to Liane’s father received numerous awards from the Home perform magic shows for the residents. for his volunteer activities and his name is on a plaque in the Home’s galleria. Thanks to Liane, her family’s name and dedication to the Home will remain in perpetuity through the family’s fund.

Captain Julius Friedman Society Marina and Danil Shnaydman Kathe Traynor Beverly Norman Morris A. Rothman Pauline E. Forman Alla and Igor Ushomirsky Kent D. Owen Niki Rothman and Albert E. Silverstein David Varshavsky Doris and Sidney Pearlman Janet and Zev Rubenstein Bette A. Simon Gertrude G. Vederoff Sallie Ann and Robert Perliss Esther Rubin Laurie H. Sizemore Alla Kaper and Filip Vinengauz Melvin S. Pincus Joan Sachs Roberta Agre and Allan Sluizer Avram Volfovsky Helen Pollack Sharon Litsky Roselyn Catz Sommer Dorothy and Paul Wachter Bernice Polonsky and John Sampson Paul Spitz Barbara L. Wallerstein Roza Polovinchik Dorothy and George Saxe Susan and John Stapp Liselotte N. Weber Vera Kostiouk and Sergey Pushnof Adrienne and Norman Schlossberg Beverly and Roman Starno Yuko Kuraki and Eric Weichardt Mary and David Rabb Yetta Schneider Anne M. Stein Clark Weisman Hilda Richards Ruth Schoenberg Paul May and Frank Stein Betty J. Weiss Janis Riney Annette and Harry Schriebman Nelson Stone Lyllian and Alan Wendroff Walter Riney Myrtle and Joel Schwartz Marianne Strassman Linda and George Wertheim Barbara and Saul Rockman Katherine Lautz and Sol Schwartz Lila Stridiron Diana Whiteman Samuel Rodetsky Ada E. Schwarz Greta S. Stuehler Michael B. Wise Rochelle and Jeff Rondinone Sylvia Selim Selma and Sanford Tandowsky Geraldine J. Yorkis Ilse and Herbert Rosenbaum Lynne Semi-Ueligitone Dorina and Sidney Tanner Hanna Zanger Betty Rosenthal Larry J. Shaw Mikhail A. Tayts Joan L. Zentner Marjorie Rosenthal Rita Sheidgant Lawrence Tomsky Alice and Arthur Zimmerman Barbara and Jack Ross Lois Shenker Betty A. Toole Norma and Harold Zimmerman

36 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Our Donors The Annual Fund

As a not-for-profit organization, the Jewish Home of San Francisco relies on community generosity to maintain the high standard of its care and services. Contributions to the Jewish Home’s Annual Fund fuel the heart and soul of our community’s promise to honor our mothers, fathers and elders, and responds to one of the basic tenets of Judaism, tzedakah, or righteous giving.

Your contribution to the Annual Fund helps us provide our residents with the highest quality, state-of-the-art medical care through our on-site clinics; nurtures their spiritual needs; and supports our creative arts, music concerts, nutritional services, and lifestyle-enhancing programs.

We are home to more than 420 deserving individuals, each with their own significant life stories. But they all have one thing in common: they have reached a time when they need care, which our remarkable staff provides consistently and compassionately, whenever and wherever it is needed.

With your meaningful support, the Jewish Home will remain that special place our community has known and trusted for 138 years. A home that provides each and every one of our residents with what they so richly deserve – the best in loving care and the utmost in human dignity.

Your tax-deductible gift to the Jewish Home not only demonstrates how much you care, but it is also truly g’milut chasadim – an act of loving kindness.

No gift is too small and every contribution is greatly appreciated.

For information about giving to the Jewish Home, please contact Joan Libman, major gifts officer, at 415.469.2137.

Giving Circles: Hope Circle $25,000+ Builder’s Circle $10,000 – $24,999 President’s Circle $5,000 – $9,999 Gold Circle $2,500 – $4,999 Silver Circle $1,000 – $2,499 Honor Circle $500 – $999 Mitzvah Circle $100 – $499 Chai Circle $1 – $99

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 37 Annual Fund donors July 2008 – June 2009

The following names reflect gifts received from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Donors who have an asterisk following their name have given to the Jewish Home’s Annual Fund for 5 years or more.

Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston, Eva and Robert Bloch * Helen Diller Family Foundation Hope Circle The Shenson Foundation Katherine Browning of the JCEF * Norman R. Ascherman Trust In memory of Ben Byer Foundation – Carl Djerassi Linda and A.J. Batt * and A. Jess Shenson * Marian and Allan Byer Carol and Daniel Dmitruk Alice and Sidney Colberg Alexander M. and June L. Maisin California Pacific Medical Center Benjamin Dorfman * Fifth Age of Man Foundation – Foundation of the JCEF * Galina and Alexander Capelson Debra L. Estrin * Mina Vitlin, Annag Chandler Jamie and Mark Myers Julian Davis Lectureship Fund Leslie A. Gordon and Craig B. Etlin and Victor Vitlin * Lea and Allen Orwitz * of Mount Zion Health Fund Joyce Mishel and Stanley Ettinger * Lynne Frank * Leighton Phillips Trust Mark Denton Stephanie and Steven Farsht Paulette Meyer and David Friedman * Ruth Ann Rosenberg * The Design Partnership, LLP Leland R. Felton * Phyllis K. Friedman * Fern and Daniel Ruth * Ecologically Sound Medical Services Tatiana Springfield Friend Family Foundation * – Eleanor and Paul Sade Muriel and Clyde Fox * and Maurice Feskanich Donald and Janie Friend Alfred V. Sanguinetti Jesse C. Friedman Suzanne M. Stassevitch Robert and Michelle Friend Barbara Hilp Smith * GeoSyntec Consultants and James W. Friedman * J. Eugene and Faye Barrett Goldberg Marlene and Martin Stein * Rochelle Alpert John Fruehe Philanthropic Fund of the JCEF * Amelia Terkel and Steven Greenwald * FTV Management Company, LP Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund – Wallis Foundation – Michael L. Sack * Gruber & Associates Leah and Jerry Garchik Richard N. Goldman * Lawrence Weissberg Foundation Marie and David Guidotti Emily and Dr. Gerald Gardner Nancy and Stephen Grand Wells Fargo Community Support Liane M. Ofenham-Hall and John Hall * Family of Daniel M. Geller * Philanthropic Fund Campaign – Mark Myers * Honeywell Building Solutions Diane and Howard Gelman Jewish Community Endowment Willis Insurance * IBM Matching Grants Program * GlynnDevins Maimonides Fund * Zimmerman Living Trust Barbara and Ronald Kaufman Advertising & Marketing Jewish Community Endowment Kruit Painting Lynn and Gary Goodman Newhouse Fund * Ryan Layne Google Matching Gifts Program Jewish Community Federation President’s Circle The Richard and Emily Levin Pat Gordon Annual Campaign * Susan and Sigmund Anderman Foundation Stephen Grasset Evelyn R. Kahn Trust Patty and Benjamin Anixter * Life Care Services Joanne and Stanford Green * Koret Foundation * Andi and David Arrick * Victor L. Marcus * Constance and Milton Greenfield * Fred Liebscher Trust Estelle Bardoff * Kristine and Michael Martell Leslie R. Guggenheim * Carol Michaelis Trust Rickie Ann and Richard Baum Max Specialty Insurance Company Barbara and Gary Haber * Mount Zion Health Fund Susanne C. Baum Pamela and Stephen Mittel * Pierre M. Hahn * of the JCEF * Elaine and Neil Blumenthal * Erin and Scott Montgomery * Ed J. Harlem * Barbo and Bernard Osher Joan DeHovitz and Aaron Braun * Juel Morris * Stephanie and Howard Hellen Paula Phillips Philanthropic Fund Jane T. Burrows * Eleanor Myers * Adrienne Herman of the JCEF Adele Corvin * Matthew Nadboralski Jules M. Heumann * Estate of Helen M. Pollack Cupertino Electric, Inc. Lois and Fred Pavlow * Susan Koret and Jack Holland The Rosenberg Family * – Dr. Claire T. Davis Bonnie and Donald Pearlman * Ann and Michael Horenstein * Barbara and Richard and Dr. James A. Davis * Peninsulators Bobbie Horowitz Lisa and Peter Paul Epp * Peter A. Pollat, M.D. * Valerie and Thierry Jahan * Ellen and Michael Barbara and Jeffrey Farber * Anne and Martin Roher * Lenke Kaldor * Louise and Claude Rosenberg Jr. Heinz Frankenstein * Eli and Mae Rosen Foundation – Ruth and Arnold Kaufman Family Foundation Kristina Kiehl and Robert Friedman Laureen and Robert Schiller Bonnie Levinson and Dr. Donald Kay * Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Rosenberg M. Damien Gall Janice V. Selix * Kay Restoration – Danny Kosarin and the Rosenberg Family * Gerald I. Ganz Alberta Siegel * Nelli and Igor Kayton Estate of Marjorie Rosenthal Frances and William Green * Silicon Valley Community Foundation Susan and Stephen Kellerman Ken F. and Hilda M. Royce of the JCEF – Hanson Bridgett, LLP Elizabeth and David Stein Dr. and Mrs. John Kerner Rosanne and Alvin Levitt * Frances and William Isackson * Judith A. Stein Vicki and Paul Klapper * The San Francisco Foundation * Marsha M. Jacobs * Marilyn R. Taubman * Morris A. Kohn * Roselyn Catz Sommer Charitable Jewish Community Endowment Fund – ValleyCrest Landscape Development Kosher Mart Foods Remainder Trust Senior Excursion Fund Webcor Builders Sherie A. Koshover * Taube Foundation for Jewish Life Local Independent Charities * Weiss Family Trust – Joyce B. Ladar and Culture – Gladys and Larry Marks * Barbara and Paul Weiss The Warren G. Lefort Supporting Dianne and Tad Taube Gerry Regensburger * Kathy and Donald Williams * Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Carol S. Roberts * Anonymous (2) Richard and Emily Levin Foundation – Estate of Diana Whiteman Susan and Alan Rothenberg * Dorie Smolen Dorothy and George Saxe * Max A. Levin Ida E. Schwartz * Silver Circle Levinson Benefits Group Builder’s Circle Seiler & Company, LLP * Liki and Joseph Abrams * Marilyn and Michael Levy Martha and Michael Adler * LaVerne and Alan Silverman * Beverly and Barnet Adelman * Shirley and Raymond Levy * Cecelia Bieber Trust Diane Olmstead and Matthew Slepin Allied Irish Bank Lexus Champions for Charity/ David Campbell Anne and David Steirman * Patricia H. Axelrod * Octagon Joan and Charles Davis * Edna J. Stewart * Ann and Irwin Bear * Lucille and Henry Libicki * Shirley and Ben Eisler * Henry Weil * Joyce and Joseph Behar * Lipton Family Trust Rebecca Arons and Eric B. Fastiff * Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg * Joan C. Benjamin * Littler Mendelson Foundation, Inc. * Bonnie and Wesley Fastiff * Bobbi and Herb Wiltsek * Diane and Jeffry Bernstein * Greta Livingston * Lisa Erdberg and Dennis Gibbons Anonymous (2) Bernice Biederman Trust * Helen Fredkin and Abe Malaster * Debra Reynolds Doris Blum * Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and Steven Hammerschlag * Deborah and Edward Brennan Esther Marcus * Susie Julius * Gold Circle Charlie and Herbert Brown * Jenelle and Greil Marcus Arlene and Steve Krieger * Harry Abrahams * Anne Cahn * Rabbis Janet and Sheldon Marder * Estate of Margit Landesmann Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory Cain Brothers Martinelli Environmental Graphics Muriel Leland * & Natsis, LLP California Shellfish Co., Inc. * Selma Mittelman * Allan Berenstein * Deborah A. and Joseph W. Chait * Moldaw Family Residences Rimma Vainstein and Pavel Berkhin City Building, Inc. Muir Lab BiRite Foodservice Distributors * Joan Libman and Jim Coughlin Judy and Jay Nadel *

38 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Hilda Namm * Ann Fay and Dr. William S. Breall Lorin and Barry Schneider * Arthur W. Baum Jr. * Peter Neubauer * Tatyana and Mikhail Brodsky Vicki and Jack Schneider Sylvia and Morton Bearman June K. Neuhaus * Karen and Steven Busch * Ruth and Donald Seiler * Roslyn T. Beauchamp * Catherine and Andrew Newman * Nanci P. Carpe * Suzanne and Theodore Seton Dorothy and Joseph Becker * Robert and Jan Newman Charles Schwab Foundation Madeline and Steven Shakin * Patricia and Ernest Belden Philanthropic Fund of the JCEF * Matching Gift Program Shoreline Center, Ltd. * Gerry Belling Lawrence E. Pelzner * Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP Joan and Jack Simon Lorna and Alan Belluomini Linda and Edward Plant * Gail B. Cohen Audrey and Bob Sockolov * Randi and Robert Belot * Lila and Neville Rich * Selma and Benjamin Cornet * Roberta J. Silverstein Inna and Vadim Belyaev Eva Yarmo and David Rosenthal * Janice Diamond and Stephen M. Sperber Edward Ben-Eliezer Joel N. Rossen * Paul M. Diller * Rose and David Stadtner Hagar Ben-Eliezer Janet and Zev Rubenstein * E. J. Weber Electric Company, Inc. * Beverly and Roman Starno Vivian and Bernard Benn Melinda and Eric Ruchames Elyssa and Frazer Edwards * Joyce and Henry Steier Rosalie and Arthur Beren Nancy and Joel Saal Ruth and Harold Epstein * Ruth S. Steiner * Helle and David Berger Sharon L. Litsky and John F. Sampson * Harry Erlich Dolores Stone Frances and Leonard Berger * Sares Regis Group Dianne Estrin * Marilyn and William Sugar * Kenneth Bergman * of Northern California Susan Euphrat Sherri and Charles Sugarman * Janice and Dennis Berkowitz * Nancy Kwan and Alan B. Schwartz * Helen and Steven Feinberg * Stephen Tigerman Helen Berkowitz Security Public Storage Suzanne and Elliott Felson * Jerome A. Tobias Aline and Warren Berl * Alane and Jeffrey Seife * Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Eleanor Toker Paula Fleisher and Lucy Bernholz Gaye and Stuart Seiler * Barbara and John Friedman * John A. Toker * Suzan Berns * Jerome L. Shapiro * Faega and M. Wallace Friedman Richard W. Toker * Joanne and Alex Bernstein Judith and Leonard Shaw * Barbara Gelleri * Turner Construction Company Linda and Peter Bernstein Sari and Franklin Shifrin * James M. Glick Lilya and Gregory Vaisman Arlene and Philip Bernstein * Carole and S. Richard Shostak Karen Gonzales Tamara and Andrei Vassiliev Joan and Burton Berry * Barbara B. Shupin Brenda and Hugh Gottfried * Barbara and Robert Voss * Alexsandra and Yuriy Beygman * Eileen and Stephen Silver Jane and Philip Graham * Heidi Stewart and John Weinstein Jane Kahn and Michael W. Bien The Simcha Foundation – Katie Hall William K. Weinstein Louise Billotte * Maribelle and Steve Leavitt Margaret L. Hardy * Wolfe Philanthropic Fund – Robert Binder Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Dorothy Harkavy * Susan and Robert Wolfe * Larisa and Izrail Blank Sinai Memorial Chapel * Julie and Richard Harris * Joan L. Zentner * Marion Blechman Marga Dusedau and David Sklar * Stephanie and Rudy Hoffman * Alya and Max Zolotorev * Selma and Karl Blick * Jacqueline and Lawrence Slayen Lois and Robert Jacob * Anonymous (5) Susan Bloch * Chuck Smith Rosalind and Donald Jarvis * Annabelle Block Pauline and David Soffa * Linda and Thomas Kalinowski Nancy and Joseph Blum Jeffrey R. Spirn * Bobbie and Don Kamler Mitzvah Circle Isabel and Peter Blumberg Sandra and Edward Stein Kendra and Thomas Kasten * Sy Aal * Valerie and Max Blumenfeld * Beverly Buller-Tannen Elizabeth and Brian Katcher Ruth C. Abrahams * Maureen and Joseph Blumenthal * and Eugene Tannen * Sara J. Liss-Katz and Jeremy W. Katz Mari S. Abrams * Pola Burk and Bernard Blutman * Thorn Fund Philanthropic Fund Lillian and Sidney Kevich * Elana Lieberman and Lorne Abramson Mira and Zalman Blyumberg of the JCEF Anne Kosarin Pamela and Scott Abramson Tom Bookwalter Susan Romer and Donald L. Ungar * Abby Kovalsky * Activities department of the Irina Borshchevskaya * United California Glass & Door * Alice and Dennis Krieger * Jewish Home Mary Bost United Way of Metropolitan Howard Lader * Doi and Thomas Adams * Charles Boucher Dallas, Inc. Barbara and Kenneth Lebovitz * Vida and Gordon Adelman * Jeremy Bower Visa Matching Gifts Program Maryam and David Lehman Sharon R. Adelson Yevgeniya and Nikolay Boyko * Arlene Waksberg In memory of Lawrence Lehman Dianne Adler Brandeis Hillel Day School Stephanie and Elliott Warshauer * Tillie and David Leibel * Betty and Jacques Adler * Jessica and David Brandwein Nina Weil * Arlene and Paul Leiber * Adobe Systems Inc. Matching Margot E. Braun * Lydia Selim-Wempe Lorraine and Clyde Leland Gifts Program Mimi and Roman Braunfeld * and James Wempe * Rose Lerman Irina and Alexander Aerov Vera and Felix Braynin Mila and Larry Wichter Samuel Levin Julius Aires Mirka and Michael Breen Yamilee Bermingham David Levine Julia Raydel and Alexander L. Alishoev Dorothy and Arnold Breit * and Douglas Winthrop Marlene and Fred Levinson * Marcia and James Allegretti Mary and Leo Brenneisen Anita and Ronald Wornick * Marion and Harry Lewenstein Fund Ruth J. Allen * Roberta and Bernard Brenner Julie and Adam Young * Lauren and Ken Lewis Marjorie and Harry Ambrunn David Brody * Jean G. Zemel * Helen Luey Rochelle and Harrison Anixter * Andrea Jacoby and Robert Brody * Denise and Joseph Ziony * Jan and Jay Luxenberg * Natalia and Michael Arata Jeanette E. Bronstein * Jean and Richard Zukin * Siesel and Howard Maibach * James Armistead Diane and Mickey Brown Anonymous (2) Karen and Chris Mead * Barbara and Timothy Arnstein Phyllis S. Brown * Judith and Walter Miller * Susan Aronovsky Geri and Martin Brownstein Susan and Mark Morris * Elissa and Daniel Arons * Lorne M. Buchman Honor Circle Arnold Mozar * Mary Ann and Samuel Aronson Brenda F. Buckner * Lowell Adelson Family Estate Joseph Nadel * Edith K. Arrick * Ann Burger * Allen S. Feder & Co., Inc. – Jean Nandi Frances Aubert Bernice and Samuel Burnick Francine and Allen Feder * Cathleen McCafferty Olga Kashlinskaya Carole Burns Earl Annecston * and Roger H. Odenberg and Yevgeniy Babichev * Dulcie and Brian Butt Lucy Olivari and Leonard D. Anspach * Eileen I. Oliver * Marcia Bach Pamela R. Byrne AT&T Employee Giving Campaign * Kent D. Owen * Yetta Bach * C. Roy Calder * Ballesteros Landscape Perkins Eastman Albina Balanov Louise Cantrell-Kehoe Management Co. Lori A. Hillman and Neal B. Polachek Stella Balbi * Lorraine M. Carrigg * The Kenneth S. Baron Family * Pollack Family Boris Balter Helene H. Catz * Sally L. Berger * Derin Raiken Marina Katsap and Mark Barbalat Shari Chamitoff * Jane and Douglas Berl Paul Rasmussen Robert Barnett * Sheri Champeau Helen and Joseph Bernstein * Valerie and Theodore Reich Melanie and Steve Baron Melody and Richard Chasen Evelyn and Ralph Black * Rob Reicher Judith and Ron Barr Izabella Letskin Gordon Blackstock Nancy and Richard Robbins * Jeri and Bruce Bartfeld and David Chernomordik * James S. Blattner Susan and Edwin Rosenberg * Ruth Basin Paul Christopher Gayle and Michael Blum * Jack Rosenberg Kathy and Jay Bass Stella Gaber and Alex Chupkin Nancy and Michael Borah Jeanette Rude * Warren R. Bauer * Karen and Micah Citrin * >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 39 Annual Fund donors July 2008 – June 2009

Marna Clark Finance and IT departments of the Karen Green * Sharon and Irwin Kasser Ben Clewans Jewish Home James T. Clavin Dora and Khary Kats * Constance J. Cobb Barbara and George Finck and Burton M. Greenberg * Tatyana Rotenberg Ruth and David Coen Anita and Stanley Finkel Svetlana and James Greenberg and Larry Katsanovich * Carole A. Cohen Paul L. Fireman Marshall A. Greene Milton Katz Ruth Coleman Susan Fischer Mel Greenhood * Bernard Katzmann * Martha Collin Leon H. Fisher Frieda Greenspan * Olga and Isai Kaufman * Edna and Edwin Colloff * Bella and Ilya Fishman Joanne and William Greenspan Laura Kaufman Erlinda Concepcion Doris Flamm * Eva and Gabriel Gregoratos * Sharon and Seth Kaufman Celia and Paul Concus Ana C. Florez * Gail S. Grossman * Tobye and Ron Kaye * Beth Cook Sharon and Aaron Fomil Judy and Gary Grossman * Lillian J. Kelly Donna M. Cooper * Leonore and Carl Foorman Relda Grossman Eunice and Gerald Kenner Jack Corinblit Leatrice and John Ford * Wendy and Robert Grossman Sandra and Jacques Kerrest * Council of Residents of the Cathy and Frederick Fox * Nina and Claude Gruen Edward Kersh Jewish Home Max Frank * Lottie and Morris Gutterman * Deborah and Robert Kessler Sandy and Jeffrey Cressman Eva Angress and Walter Frank * Cheryl and Louis Haas Sara Keyak * Sandra and Brian Cruz Suzanne M. Lewis-Frankl Barbara Haber Naum Khaykin Carol and Richard Cutler * and Andrew M. Frankl Henry O. Haertel * Carol and Bill Kieschnick Joseph U. Damico Ann and Lewis Freedman Luba Haertel * Emiliya Kil Philip E. Damner Jr. * Uri Freeland Cherie and Frederick Half * Cathlin H. Milligan Milt Danoff * Janet and Sigmund Freeman * Arden and Larry Hamilton * and Gregg S. Kleiner Helaine and Richard Darling * Isaak Freylikhman Sandra and Louis Handler J. Anthony Kline * Amy and Scott Darling * Jeffrey Schindler Ilene Harding Galina A. Klyarfeld Leonie J. Darwin and Mark Friedlander Linda Harrington Ruth and Heinz Kochman * Grant Davies Harriet Friedman * Antoinette Harris * Jeanette Bemis and Jacob Koff * Gregg Davis Cynthia Krieger and Stuart Friedman * Caryn and Ian Harris Carolina Ruys and Charles Kogan Gwen Davis * Virginia H. Friedman Anna and Andre Hassid * Ernest Kohn * Lenore Davis Bernice Frucht Marcia and William Hastings * Betty and Marvin Kolotkin * Myrna and Donald DeFriese * Marlene and David Fullmer * Barbara S. Heil James Hoover and Joseph Konick Jobyna and John Dellar John A. Galen * Barry P. Helft Sara Koshover * Nancy and Ross Delston Darlene and Bill Gall-Austin Alfred E. Heller * Ida Kostovetskaya Rita and Robert DeLue Galperin Family * Mary and Douglas Heller * Evelyn Kramar * Beverley and Bruce Denebeim Gwen and Martin Gans * Gayle and Josef Helwani Stephanie and Morris Krantz * Barbara and Barry Deutsch Victoria and Grant Gansinger Mina Hendricks * Rosalia Veksler Edith Deutsch * Dena J. Goldberg Gardi Abraham Henselyn * and Eugene Krayzbukh Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Ilana Gauss Evelyn Herman * Bernis and Larry Kretchmar US Matching Gifts Program – Valentina Gelfer Eve and Vernon Heyman * June and Charles Krieger * Douglas Berl Vlada Gelfond Carol B. Hicks * Betty and Stanley Krieger * Patricia and Ted Dienstfrey Elsie I. George Pamela Singer and William Hillman * Lily Krulevitch David L. Diller * Gerson Bakar & Associates Elaine A. Hilp * Anna Seletsky and Vladimir Krutenev Harold and Annette Dobbs Family Rosalie and Harold Gevertz * Peter M. Hirsch Lynn Kislak and Ben Kuehne Supporting Foundation of the JCEF * Anna and Walter Gewing * A. Arthur Hirschhorn * Alyson Rae Kuhn Maryann Dresner Marion and Irwin Gibbs * Florence and Samuel Hoch * Liliya and Samuil Kur * Sylvia and Jerome Drexler * Arthur N. Gilbert * Sheila Hochman * Carol Nusinow-Kurland Sofya and Yakov Dreyband Elaine and Barry Gilbert * Hannah Hochstaedter and Duff Kurland Julie Friend and Philip Dreyfus Howard Giles Linda and Jeffrey Hoeck Sarah and Daniel Kushner * Joanne and Donald Druyanoff * Louise A. Stirpe-Gill and James Gill * Carol Hoffman Maria Labunskaya Helen and Jeffrey DuBowy * Sara G. Ginor Ruth Hoffman * Cecilia and Parviz Lalezari * Jane and James Dubuque Annie and Charles Glass * Linda and Dennis Holl Yelena and Boris Landa Tanya and Alec Dukhovny Barbara and D. Peter Gleichenhaus Sondra and Stanley Holwitz Naomi and Robert Lauter Nathan Dwiri Bella and Erast Gliner * Arlene and Jonathan Horowitz * Marina and Sergey Lazarevsky Carol Ann and Harvey Edelman * Zina and Valery Gluzman Valerie Howard Marcia Lazer Judith Edelson Genrikh Gofman Charlotte and Jerome Hyman Sherry and Thomas Lazore Lillian S. Edwards Elisheva and Arnold Gold Trude Ingram * Thea and Samuel Leavitt * Diane and Bill Ehrlich * Sandy and Marvin Gold Raya Ionis * Mollie LeBoit Audrey G. Eichorn Phillip Gold Gabriella Isaacson Alexandra and Wolfgang Lederer * Constance and Werner Einstadter Rosabelle Gold * Aileen and Leif Isaksen Jenny and Thomas Lee Jessica and Michael Eisler Helen Goldberg Laura Dansky and David Isenman Nina and Mark Lees Maria Eisman Gerda and Roger Goldberg * Marilyn and Rick Israel Wendy and Johnathan Lehman Marcia and Alexander Eisner Marina Goldenberg Roz and Steve Itelson * Lisa Metzger and Steve Leibovitz * Dennis Eisner Mariuca Naum and Pierre Goldenstein Anna Ivinskaya Golden and Edward Lerman * Mary Lou Ellis Judy Golding * Sylvia and Louis Jennis * Ludmila and Lev Lerner Bernice and Ellis Ellison * Lisa and Douglas Goldman * Lyubov and Roland Jillings Julie C. Letofsky ENGEO Inc. Bette and Gerald Goldman Priscilla and Gerardo Joffe * Larry M. Letofsky * Sandra and Edwin Epstein * Claude A. Goldsmith Adrienne H. Jonas * Regina and Boris Letuchy Irene K. Epstein * Amy Sukhov and Charles Goldstein Joanne Jonas Levi Strauss Foundation Sherrie and Wallace Epstein * Judith Goldstein Lev Kabanovsky * Matching Gift Program Richard Estrin * Kevin Goldstein Pam Grossman and David Kahn Levi Strauss Foundation Desi and Gershon Evan Arlene S. Goldstine Emma Kahn * Social Benefits Program Dana and Jerry Evans Dr. Linna and Mr. Alex Golodriga Robert A. Kahn Feralee and Charles Levin * Joan and Fredrick Falender * Ruby Goodman * Yudolf Kantor * Patricia and Gary Levin Judy and Jack Feinberg Faina Kantor and Sergey Gorbunov * Wilfred Kapkin * Lewis B. Levin Adella and Jonathan Feinberg Danielle Gordon Mary and Anatoly Kaplan * Donna and Stanley Levin * Linda Feldman Galina and Ilya Gorodetsky * Feliks S. Karchemskiy Stuart M. Levin Lynne F. Feldsher Svetlana and Arkady Gozberg Susan and Barry Karl Arlene and Wallace Levin Marsha and Jack Feldstein Eletta Graceffa * Audrey S. Karnal William M. Levin Lynn B. Bunim and Sandy Fetter * Sally and Gilbert Gradinger * Elyse and Chris Karow Irene and Dan Levine Judith and Fred Fiedler * Mignon S. Gravitch Rosie and Joseph Karp Donald A. Levine Sofiya Figlina and Mikhail Figlin * Gail N. Green Vickie and Ralph Karp Sharon and Jerry Levine * Vanessa Figone Isabel Green Regina Karson Lou Levine *

40 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Sharon and Alan Levins Betty Mayer Anita and Ingram Olkin Barbara and Saul Rockman * Naomi and Carl Levinson * Dorthea A. Mayer Susan Freiwald and Eric Olson Richard Rockwell Eva and Michael Levinson Eleanor and Jerome Mednick * Carolyn and Karl Olson Elena and Alexander Rodstein Bonnie and Daniel Levitt Marilyn and Charles Meier * Anh and Todd Oppenheimer Svetlana A. Romanova Shira and Al Levy * Muffie Meier Ruth and Jerry Opper * Sophia and Anatoly Romanovsky * Jacquelyn Levy Marcia Meister * Joanne Donsky Rochelle and Jeff Rondinone * JoAnne and Jesse Levy * Carolyn and Joe Meiswinkel and Stuart Oremland Antoinette and Dey Rose Loretta and Leonard Levy Lorena Melghem Shari and Donald Ornstein Linda and Edward Rosen * Roland Levy Hermione and Arthur Mendelson * Gerald A. Ornstein * Melba and Guy Rosen * Mildred Levy-Albert * Diane and Jeremy Merrill Barney Orovitz Ruth H. Rosenbaum * Gene and Harry Lewin * Beverly and Jerry Meyer Yelena Ostromogilskaya Beverly Rosenberg Meryl J. Lewin * Steven J. Meyer Fira and Arkady Ostrovksy * Marcia Cooper and Jeffrey Rosenberg Libby and Werner Lewin * Maris and Ivan Meyerson Joseph M. Ostrow * Ellen and Martin Rosenberg * Phyllis Pottish and Adam A. Lewis * Roberta and Spencer Michels Jocelyn Owen Patti Breitman and Stan Rosenfeld * Laura and Alan Lewis Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Judy and Gary Pasquinelli * Gerald B. Rosenstein * Hildegard Lewis * Denise and Erik Migdail * Elizabeth and Stuart Patt Bernice H. Rosenthal Ellen Leznik Carmen and Ferdinand Milanes Karman and Bjorn Pave Betty Rosenthal * Greta Liebman * Tatyana and Simon Milgrom Gordon Pearlman Dorothy Rosenthal * Carol Eisenberg Arlene Miller * Loren Pearlman Lisa and Mark Rosenthal * and Raymond Linkerman * Eleanor and Howard Miller * Doris and Sidney Pearlman * Linda Ross Carole and Marvin Lipton * Ann Millhauser * Joy and Zachary Pearlman Lois and Arthur Roth Adriana and Erwin Livianu Bessie Mintz * Judith and Gerald Pelzner * Frances and Irwin Roth * Harriet D. Lloyd * Alla and Alex Miretsky Sallie Ann and Robert Perliss Janet and Peter Roth * Elena Lobatsevich Sofia Mitina Karen and Brian Perlman Sheree and Ron Roth Diane Loeb * Mildred and Robert Mizrahi * Lilian and Ilya Perry * Rose-Emily and Leslie Rothenberg David Long John Modell PG&E Corporation Employee Ann M. Rovere Marcus Loorya * Beate Mohr * Deduction Program * Victoria A. Royzina Jacqueline and Stephen LoPresti Moldaw Family Foundation * Trude B. Plack * and Vladimir L. Royzin Michael Lorincz * Sylvia and Horace Morden Gerry R. Podolsky * H. Marcia Smolens Shirley P. Loube Susan and Peter Morenstein * Lee and Stuart Pollak * and Richard Rubenstein Fern and William Lowenberg * Barbara and Robert Morrison Roza Polovinchik Esther Rubin * Dennis A. Lubitz Milton J. Mosk Yefim Polsky Vivienne Freeman and Leonard Rubin *

“I have the warmest thoughts of the Jewish Home. By the time my mother suffered a stroke, my two sisters had died and I was working full-time. I don’t know what I would have done had my mother not been able to spend years at the Home. It’s my pleasure to make a substantial donation.” –Harry Erlich

Supporting Excellent Care >> With a contribution of $5,000 you help support our on-site medical and dental clinics. Our in-house team of physicians is at the Home six days a week, which means our residents do not have to travel to a doctor off-campus, and then wait to be seen and cared for by strangers. Our 13 on-site clinics offer eye care, dentistry, physical therapy, cardiology, podiatry, acupuncture, and therapeutic massage, among others.

Paul J. Lubitz * Irene and David Moussa * Alexandra Braude Marina Rubin * Robert R. Luhrs Fortune and Joseph Moussa and Michael Ponedelnikov Tobi and Mark Rubin Violetta M. Lunt Patricia Kristof Moy Anita and Jack Popik * Victor Rubstein Judith and Mark Lurie Ellen and Michael Mundell Linda Posner Marilyn Rude Marjory Luxenberg Dena P. Myers Laurie B. Spoon-Potter Renee Rushnawitz Claire MacElroy Maxwell A. Myers * and Kevin T. Potter Eugenia Romanovsky Louise Magner * Alla Makievsky Mary A. and Patric T. Powell * and Sergei Rutenberg Donald Magnin and Michael Myslovaty * Jeneen and John Puccinelli Maria Rutenburg Terry Magnin * Aimee Nairn Richard Puccinelli Theodore Sachsman George H. Maisels Hillel Narin * Lynn and Rab Puri Judith and James Saffran Alexsandr Makievsky Ilya Nasilevich Davida and Michael Rabbino Sylvia Salomon * Rosario and Sydney Malkoo * Marina Nasilevich Shulamit and Boris Rabinovich * Natalia Samoilova Gregory S. Mand * Kurt Nehrer Isaak Rabinovich and Arkadii Samoilov Eileen and Mike Marchasin * Lisa and Dennis Nelson Judi Raiken Gertrude H. Samuel * Florence and Steven Marchick * Network for Good Eva and Leon Rajninger * Shari Samuel * Leila and Alan Marcus * Siegfried F. Neustadter * Lara and Steven Rajninger Norma and Joseph Satten * Diane and Hubert Marcus * Eva and Ernest Newbrun Marsha Rivkind Raleigh Robert M. Savasky * Minnie Marguleas * Leah Newman Peggy Rasmussen Joel Saxe Martin L. Marimont Maxine and Melvin Newman Lyudmila and Roman Rechevsky Iga and Charles Schaffer Peggy and Ron Marinoff Ellen and Walter Newman * Ethel G. Regan * Randall Schiller Anita and David Markham * Daphna and Samuel Noily Adele Malamud and Michael Reingold * Sandra and Albert Schlesinger * Camille and Bradford Marks Beverly Norman Leo V. Reis Renee and Howard Schlesinger * Doug Marks Gayle and Allen Notowitz * Sheryl and James Reuben Adrienne and Norman Schlossberg * Melanie R. Marks * Tracy and John Novick Lois and Julian Rhine * Sara and John A. Schram William Marks Ellen and James Eugene O’Sullivan Hilda Richards Annette and Harry Schriebman * John M. Marx Mignon and Armand Offel Norita Robbins Frank R. Schulkin Steven J. Masover * Elizabeth and Jesus Okialda Valerie Roberts Steve Schuster Virginia and James Matthews Brenda Oliver Karen S. Robson * Harold Schwartz * >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 41 Annual Fund donors July 2008 – June 2009

Inge Schwartz * Ella and Luke Spitkovsky * Vision Service Plan Pamela and Ernesto Alcivar Maureen Schwartz Paul Spitz * Eugene Vodkin Esther and Berni Alder Sylvia M. Schwartz * Doris and Bill Spitzig * Dorothy R. Vogel * Sheila Aleksandrovsky * Zachary Schwartz Marnie B. St. Clair Marina Volchenok Tamara Aleskovskaya Bennett Schwarzmann Betty and Nathan Starr * Yelena and Vladimir Volchenok Raul Almaguer Paula and John Schwerin * Anne M. Stein * Dorothy and Paul Wachter * Ruth Andersen * Barbara Scodel * Paul May and Frank Stein * Bobbie and Gerald Wagger * Rosalie Hyman Anixter * Ivan H. Scope * Vera and Harold Stein * Carol and Robert Walsh Marilynn and David Anker Marsha and Steve Seidman Peyton and Jeffrey Stein Jan and Bruce Ward Margery D. Anson * Molly and Michael Seigel Phyllis and Maurice Stein Rose Warshauer * Lee M. Appel * Susan and Richard Seiler Anita Steinacher * Caryn and Kevin Wasserstein * Joyce Appelbaum Fusako Seki Margaret and Joel Steinberg Therese and Joseph Weber * Joanne and Bernard Arfin * Lynne Semi-Ueligitone * Jacqueline and Norman Steiner Lewis Weil * Margit David and Boyd Arnold Serafima Serebrennikov Lee Ann and Paul Steiner Roschelle and William Weiman Millie and Aron Aronovsky Lois and David Serxner Daniel E. Stone Lora F. Weiner * Ilse L. Arons Raisa and Norman Sfard * Carole and Jay Stone * Elayne and Harold Weinhoff Jakob A. Atlas * Mary-Ann and Richard Shafer Nelson Stone Lydia and Neil Weiss Lori and Joji Atone Ann and Henry Shain Marianne Strassman * Lotte and Sidney Weiss * Roma M. Auerback * Kathryn and Chris Shaini Eileen and Jeffrey Straus Carol A. Weitz Barbara and Gerald August * Cynthia and Irving Shapiro * Lyla and Michael Strauss Jan Herr and Elihu Welber * Margie Siegan and Ronald Bachman * Marion H. Shapiro Dr. and Mrs. Sherman H. Strauss * Bernadette and James Weslow Wanda and Peter Baczek Mary Shapiro * Cyla Stundel Norbert S. Wesolow Tatyana and Alexander Bagerman * Mike Shapiro Raisa R. Sullivan * Mary Wezelman Judy and Ramon Balagot Larry J. Shaw * Deborah Suslow Carolyn and Stanley Wiener * Sharon and Dave Baldwin Joan H. Shemanski Edith and Leon Svirsky Loni Wilk Aksyuta Balin Maya and Norm Shendon Leah Swiler * Ronald Wilk Bruce Balshone Bev and Ernie Sherne Helen and Samuel Szteinbaum Marcia Epstein-Wilson Dale Rabinov and Bert Banks Svetlana and Mikhail Sheykhet Rimma Tabakh and Donald Wilson * Meredith Beam Marianne and Herman Shine * Nancy and Howard Tamler Barbara and Norman Winnerman * Wendy Bear * Raisa and Alex Shkurovich Valli Benesch-Tandler Evelyn and Warren Winthrop Jane and Hugo Beckerman Eugenia Shlyakhov and Robert S. Tandler Marya K. and Bruce Wintroub Robin Beers

“The Tree of Life is such a meaningful image. I wanted to remember my dad with a leaf on a tree at the Home because it felt so good to have Dad living in a place where he received such wonderful care from a very warm, friendly, and caring staff. The leaf helps me remember the quality of his life with all the Home’s superb activities, and all the precious time I was able to spend with him.” –Nina Lawit

The Tree of Life >> The Tree of Life is a beautiful wooden sculpture that hangs prominently in the Jewish Home. Each leaf on the tree bears an inscription as a tribute or memorial to a loved one. Leaves may be purchased for a $1,200 gift to the Home. A certificate acknowledging the Tree of Life gift is provided to the donor or sent to the honoree, as directed.

Klara and Kim Shlyapochnik * Marilyn Tapson Penny L. Wolfsohn * Deborah Ben-Eliezer Marina and Danil Shnaydman * Marie Tesema Sherry and Evan Wolozin Andrea Bennahmias Musya and Iosif Shneyder Marian H. Tessler Harold Yanow * Lyubov Serebryanaya Shira and William Shore * Sam H. Thal * Tatyana Yarnolinsky and Vladimir Berdichevskiy Irina and Igor Shtutman Matt Thomson Marilyn Zack * Joyce Berger-Miller Luda B. Shuster Rosalind and Greg Tolson * Harriet and Steve Zelencik Polly Bergtraun Lia and Arkady Shusterman * Jon Tolson * Steven Zerebecki Esther J. Berick Alfred Sidel Yana and David Tonello Alice Ziegler * Josephine L. Berick Carole E. Siegel Betty A. Toole * Gary Zimmerman Amy Wollman and Gerry Berkowitz Maxine and Alan Sigel * Frank Topper Norma S. Zimmerman * Inge S. Berliner Fred Silberman * Travelers Insurance Co. Lydia and David Zinn Iris and Steve Berman Janice and Melvin Silverman * Isik Tsifrin Lore A. Zutraun * Larisa Bershader Wendy and Doug Sinton Yevgenia Kaplun and Igor Tsuzmer Lyudmila Zverhovsky Janet and Nilo Bertoloni Rolly L. Slatt * Sofia and Lev Tsylov Anonymous (15) Rose and Gary Bigus * Robert L. Slesnick * Sydney M. Kapchan Winnie and George Biocini Henry H. Small * and Steven R. Tulkin Judy and Stanley Blake Barbara and Rick Smith United Airlines Chai Circle Anna and Sam Blank Susan R. Katz Snyder * Employee Giving Campaign * AAA Appliance Repair – Michael Godin John Blankfort Valery D. Sokolovskii * United Way of America Janet and Mark Abelson Judith Blankman Joan and Herschel Solomon United Way of the Bay Area * Marcia and William Abend * Faye E. Blatt Irena Terterov Maria Ury * Sandy and Al Abrams Edie Blattner and Vladimir Solomonik Aline and William Usim Tina and Michael Abrams and Family Steve M. Blick Allan E. Sommer * Mediatrix Valera Ila Abramson Joan and Eugene Bloom Jill Sorenson Priyanka and Tony Varni * Karen and Kenneth Adelson Jayne S. Bloom * Eldon and Joseph Sozzi * Beverly and Jack Vaupen * Helen M. Adler * Catherine and Bernard Blumberg * Roy Sozzi Arkadi Vayntrub Maureen E. Adler * Madalyn and Frank Blumenthal * Michael I. Spiegel * Arkadiy Vekslar Mr. and Mrs. M.T. Rosenthal Ah Aleks Bondar Bonnie and Louis Spiesberger * Janice and Harvey Vicchio Ms. Adrienne Giovanna Alla Bondarenko Rose L. Spindel * Alla Kaper and Filip Vinengauz * and Alfred Aicardi Adrienne Bonn

42 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Karen and Steven Bovarnick * Matthew P. Curtin Joan and Michael Fox Sheila and Alan Gordon Mary A. Bowra Shirley L. Daniel * Susan and Michael Foxman Anna Gordon Pati and Daniel Boyd Suzanne N. Darwish * Ruth Franken Cora Gordon Janet Braff Victoria J. De Goff * Linda Freed Ludmila and Vladimir Gornitsky Hank Brasch Linda De Palma Dini Freeman Andrea and Carl Gosline Joanne Braunstein * Susan and Richard Deets Jean and Kenneth Freeman Marina Gottschalk Selma Braverman Ruth and Bernard DeHovitz * Heidi and Harry Freitas Ida and Leonid Grach Arthur M. Bree * Elizabeth J. Denton Harriet and Lawrence Fried Hanne L. Grafenberg * Ardis and Alfred Breslauer * Rozalia Dess Lois Fried * Pauline Gralnick * Karen and Theodore Bresler Barbara Deutsch * Michael Fried Vladimir Granik Ellen Brief Elaine Diamond Ann and Mark Friedland Marjorie Grant Lisa and William Brinner Alice N. Diaz Sylvia Friedland * Sally and Ron Grassi Mae Briskin Charlene and Steve Dimond Kimberly and Brian Friedman Joelle Green Judy and Ben Brockmeyer Lorraine and Allan Dinits Rona and Donald Friedman * Lila and Bert Greenberg Jean and Mark Brodie Victoria and Stephen Dobbs Robin Fromalont Phyllis and Jerry Greenblatt * Zina and Jacob Bronstein Susan Dolder Arthur Fudem Mimi and Leonard Greenwold * Ruth Brooks Martin C. Nowinski Anna and Joseph Galanter * Nancy and John Greer Ellen and Herbert Brosbe and Jose M. Dominguez Lucy Gambarina * Pendeline and Nathan Grief James Broussard Suzan Hahn and David Donnenfield * Sarra Ganelina and Aleksandr Ganelin Zelda and Hilbert Grossman Andrea and Ron Brovelli Sandra and Conrad Donner Hereen Claudio-Garcia Lyudmila and Moisey Gruzman * Ann Z. Brown * Martha Donner and Pete Garcia * Viviane Gulick Lucille and Arthur Brown Zell Ann Dove Marjorie and David Garfield Hanna Zeidler-Cowan Ruth M. Brown Suzanne and Frank Dowling Hildegard and Eric Gattmann and Hans Gumpert Roman Bruk * Draeger’s Supermarket Employees Miriam and Arthur Gauss * Sonja S. Gumpert * Carla Buchanan Rose Drayer Debbie Geller Karina Gurevich Renee and Mo Budak Henry Drejer Betty Jane Gerger Sofia Gurovich Alyne Buder Anne and Lawrence Drew E.M. Gershater Ludmila Senderovich Jane and Zole Buks Max Drimmer * Amy Gerstein and Vladimir Guzman Zhanna Buratinsky Aida Drukarev Omer Gersten Margo and Allen Haas Lottie and Henry Burger Lidiya Dumer Kenneth M. Gerstman Mary A. Haas * Phyllis and Harry Byrne Evanna and Douglas Dunlop Amber and Andrew Getz Roger Hahn

“My late mother-in-law, Lucille Gabriel, introduced me to the Home in 1968. She always sponsored birthday luncheons, which are so meaningful for the residents. It’s been a great joy for me to continue this sweet, longtime family tradition.” –Ida E. Schwartz

Sponsoring Birthday Celebrations >> With a contribution of $613, you can support this joyous event and ensure that our residents – the people who are very dear to all of us – celebrate their special days in style. As the birthday host, you are honored as well, receiving eight invitations so that your family and friends may attend to celebrate with the residents. There is live music, a raffle, even some dancing and, of course, an opportunity to join in the singing of “Happy Birthday.”

Susan Cable * Shannon and Grant Edelstone * Irina Nekrasovskaya Renee Hallen Felissa and Myron Cagan * Doretta Eisenberg * and Viktor Geyfman Francine Hament Diane and Herbert Callman Ruth Eisenman Lois and Peter Gilbert Barbara Harpell John Camp Adasa and Yakov Eliashberg Lynn E. Gitlin, D.D.S. Adele R. Harris * Jeanette and Martin Carr Sharron and Elias Emergui Ilana Glaun Clive D. Harris Elaine C. Carrick Tsilya and Yuriy Epshteyn Frida and Leonid Gluzman Liz Harris Joyce and Ari Cartun * Sara and Harold Epstein Frederica and Frank Gold * Barbara Hartley Linda and Len Chaban Alise and Joe Erdberg Sandra and Henry Gold * Michele and Rudy Hassid * Ila Cherney Frances and Louis Everett Bruce D. Goldberg Suzanne Hassid * Nina and Edward Chudnovsky * Jocelyne and Joe Falk * Gloria Goldberg Chandra Hauptman Leo and Hanna Cohan Eliot Feibush Marilyn T. Goldberg Jacqueline and Thomas Hayes Gilbert Cohen Donna and Phillip Feitelberg Gilda and Irving Golden * Shirley and Donald Heiman * Pearl and Harry Cohen Larisa Kostovetskaya Marlene S. Goldfarb Illo Heppner Jean Cohen * and Dmitry Feldman Kira Goldman Sandra and Irwin Herlihy * Rose and Melvin Cohen * Julia and Michael Fiks Bonnie and Melvin Goldman Berthold Herpe Mitchell N. Cohen Esfir Levitan and Isac Filmus Tatyana and Naum Goldman Ethel H. Herst * Janice and Morton Cohen * Beverly Fineman * Adele and Samuel Goldman Dana I. Hertz Naomi Cohen Sara G. Fingerman Corinne and Walter Goldman * Leonard Herzstein Marilyn R. Hoffman Ruth and Harry Fink * Mary and Paul Goldrath Anita R. Heyman * and Noam S. Cohen Diane and Solon Finkelstein * Michael Goldshteyn Inna Hiller * Suzanne Ducat and Stanley Cohen Nancy and Roland Finken Eva M. Goldsmith Marjorie Hilsenrad Gertrude Cohen Carol and Barry Fischer Suzanne and Lawrence Goldsmith Nelly Spieler and Spencer Hinsdale and Sandra Cohen-Wynn Charlotte and Paul Fish Estelle and Bernie Goldstein Doris and Robert Hirsch * Velma and Howard Cohn * Sandra and Sanford Fish Marilyn Frank and Martin H. Goldstein Nancy and Ken Hoeck Roberta and Leonard Cohn * Mary S. Fisher * Samuel Goldstein Ina and Fred Hoffman Rafaella Cohn Dena and Paul Fisher Maria Golenkova Freddi Perl and Ron Holden Community Health Charities Bette Liberman and Bruce Flushman Katherine and Julian Gomez Barbara and John Holt of California * Mariana and Semen Flyash * Beatrice Goodman Ruth Horenstein Robin and Robert Cooper Trudy and John Forte Michelle Goodman Carol and Lester Hornig Valerie and Scott Corvin * Eloise and Joe Foster Amy and Peter Goodman Roberta Horowitz Harvey Cramer Ellen Fox Enid and Ronald Goodman * Diane and Stephen Hoying >>>

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 43 Annual Fund donors July 2008 – June 2009

Shirley Huan Steve Koppich Lorraine and Harold Luft Diana H. Naparst Suzan Huberman Etty Korengold * Amy Rosenblatt Lui and David Lui * Bobie Nathan * Iris L. Hurbert Leonid Korman Ari B. Lurie Mavis Nathan * Inside Source Alexander Korsunsky Luba and Vladimir Lusherovich Kathleen and Ralph Neary Carolyn B. Instone Izabella Vurgaft Kristine B. Lutes Lynetta and David Neft Ann Ivory and Mikhail Korsunsky Margaret and Tim Lynch Alla Nekrasovskaya Beverly Jackson Donna and Paul Kosarin Huguette Mair Diane and Robert Neuhaus Amy and Jim Jacobs Zinaida and Valeriy Kovalevsky Clarice and Hyman Manber * Constance and Daniel Neustein * Hugh Jago Zhanna and Anatoliy Krasilovskaya Lore Mandell Marilyn and David Newman Joanne and Jeff Jagoda Beatrice and Henry Krivetsky Adriana Manousakis Jeanne S. Newman * Robert M. Kagan Heather Kroupa * Ruth and Julius Mansbach Patricia Newman Barbara and Norman Kalman Roza Krupetskaya * Inna and Jacob Manyak Constance and Samuel Newman * Ellyn Hament and Jeffrey Kamil Gloria and Mike Kulwin David Marchuk Yio Lin Ng Edythe Kamler * Polina M. Kureva * Marcia and Barry Margolin Yemil R. Niemi Stephanie L. Kane Galina and Sam Kvitko Samuil Marmer Galina and Henry Nigulas Svetlana Kantorova Susan and Mark Lachtman Albert Martin Doris Nissinoff and Leonid Kantorov Natalie and Henry Lagorio Sylvia and Michael Martinelli Zel Bauer and Leonard Norack * Rima Kantorov * Sarra Lakhmane Maria D. Martinez Karen and John Nyere Santina and Albert Kapkin * Joyce and Ernest Lampert * Andrea Wright and David Marzane * Lisa Dale O’Donnell Joseph Kaplan * Roslyn R. Lando Thomas Marzolf Miriam Ofer Rhoda and Lester Kaplan Judy and Mark Langberg * Joyce and Jay Maskell Irina and Ilya Okun Margaret Y. Kaplan * Evelyn Langer * Liliya and Vladimir Matt Hilda and Morton Owens * Gloria and Samuel Kaplan Joan LaPedis * Rodolfo J. Mayer * Florence and Owen Pallakoff Rhoda and Zane Kaplan * Jeane E. Lapkin * Norma Cadenasso Beth and Charles Pascal Mark E. Kaptzan Jessica Lassner and Ernestine McCart Adele and Robley Passalacqua * Nelli Karabet Julie and Cary Latimer Barbara and Tom McCarthy * Jody E. Patraka Grigory Karanovich * Nina Lawit Nancy and Michael McCauley Leslie and Leonard Paul * Carol A. Kare Mae Lazarus Rachel McNassor Helen L. Pearl Karl Karlton Jerry Lebovitz Ken Mecham Andrea and Stephen Pearlman Marjorie and David Karp Sheila and George Lederer * Patricia Mednick * Lawrence Peckler Susan Kahn Jeff Leeds Victoria and Anatoliy Meklin Lenore Pelzner and David H. Kaskowitz * Leatrice and Benjamin Lees Marlene Melis Irina and Vladimir Perelman Janice and Irving Katz * Doreen and Stuart Lefort Joan C. Mendoza Valeria Perlova

Tributes to Friends and Family >> Those who wish to honor an important occasion or the memory of a loved one are invited to use the Home’s tribute card service. With a gift of $18 or more, the Home sends a beautiful card, created from art produced by our residents, to the individual who should know of your generosity and caring. With a $100 donation or more, the loved one’s and the donor’s names are inscribed in Home’s Tribute Book.

Githa Katzeff * Jack Leibler Carol and Paul Mertens Ruth M. Philip * Annette Kaufman * Claire Leibowitz * Trude and Hermann Meyer Sergiy Pilipovskiy Susan and Gene Kaufman * Alla Lemenov Marilyn Zimmerman Yuriy Pilipovskiy John L. Kay Esther Lerman and Robert A. Mickel Rebecca Piltch Dana and Maury Kelisky Margie and Philip Lerner Myra and Eugene Mielke Melvin S. Pincus John Kelly Shirley F. Lerner Fruma Mikhlina Rosalie Pizzo-Strain * Dorothy E. Kemp Brian Z. Letofsky Ann Miller Sandra and Lloyd Plafker * Alina Kerson * Amalie and Jerry Levi Barbara Miller Audrey F. Pollack * Carolyn and Arlan Kertz Martha Leviant Elizabeth and Lewis Miller * Audrey and Gerald Poppers Rachel and Michael Kesselman * Edith Levin * Yetta P. Miller Eleanor Porter Lee and Herbert Kessler * Ralph Levin * Isaak Milshteyn * Evelyn Posamentier Irina Kirikova Saul Levin Igor Mineyeva Jack Posnick Judith and Oskar Klausentock David Levine Dr. and Mrs. Morrie Mink * Maya and Alexander Postolovsky * Anne Klein Sheppard M. Levine * Norma and Harry Minkin * Mayya Potashnik Frances and Fred Klein Shanna Levinson * Ursel S. Minkin Shirley L. Press Steve Sterns and Barry L. Klezmer Maria and Allan Levy Olga and Alex Minkovich Jennifer and Richard Pucci Hilda W. Kline * Barry Levy Mary and David Miretsky Barbara Rabinowitz Mikhail Kliorin * Ed Levy Mabel T. Miyasaki * Sonia Raesly Geraldine and Robert Klotz Brigitte Lewin * Sandra and David Monasch J.C. Rafferty Emil Knopf Esther G. Lewis * Nadine and Bernard Monetta Lynne D. Raider Galina and Valery Kofman Elly and Lev Leybov Florence and Ralph Moon * Boris Rakita Mania Kogan Luisa Leytman Lori and Bob Moran Larisa Rayzberg Marat Kogan * Fred Lichaa Elaine Morgan * Alan Raznick Reyzya B. Kogan Alice and Elliot Liff Mary-Alice and Gus Morr Janet Raznick Sheila Kogan Dalia and Samuel Liron * Letitia and Gary Morris Barbara and Theo Regello * Susan and Stephen Kohn Joannie C. Liss Reah S. Morton * Adele and Stanley Reich * Doris R. Kolb * Susanne and Ron Lissak Terre Moshe Jan C. Reicher Klara and Leonid Kolker Joan E. Lissauer Pearl and Melvin Mosk * Catherine Reid Etya Komarovskaya Joane Litvak Patricia and Lawrence Moskovitz Jody Reiss Sandy Komin Edward Litvin Dara and Gerald Moskowitz Myrna Reiter Olga Orlinskaya Yefim Litvinov Milton Moskowitz * Sheila and Melvyn Reitman and Yefim Komissarov Susan and Howard Locker Noreen Movitz Joyce Remak * Oscar B. Koolpe * Sonia Loir Alvin Nadler Beverly and Louis Reyff Rosalie and Eugene Koppich Robin Lorenzi Shelley and Michael Nagel * Rhoda Goldman Plaza Nyna and Martin Koppich * Martin Lu Patricia T. Nagle * Kathryn Richard

44 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Evelyne and William Richshafer Claire Shapiro Irina and Eugene Starikov Susan and Arnold Weinberg Susanne Riess * Frieda Shapiro * Hannah and Mark Staroselsky Lila Weinberg Saradel W. Riskind Maria Shaposhnikova Virginia and Leonard Stefanelli Heidi M. Linsmayer Patricia and Wayne Robson Florence Shaw * Anna Stein and Bernard Weiner Michael Rodes Nancy D. Shaw * Fay Stein Marla and Bob Weiner Bettye and Jacques Roos * Rita Sheidgant * Philip Steinberg Sally and Charles Bob Weiner * Renee and Harvey Rose Diane A. Shemanski * Stanley A. Steinberg Mildred Weiner Hyman L. Rose Sheri and Philip Shemanski Walter R. Steinberg * Phillip Weiner Ilse and Herbert Rosenbaum * Bella and Eugene Shender * Charlotte Stern * Janice Weinman Gayle and Arthur Rosenberg Phyllis Sherman June E. Rubin and David Stern Helen and Belson Weinstein * Stacy A. Rosenblatt Gertrude and Rubin Sherwin * Martha and Jerome Stern * Herman H. Weintraub * Mrs. Dale Rosenblum Raisa Shimberg-Risman * Joan C. Stern Matt Weintraub Joyce and Herb Rosenblum Heidi Berrin Shonkoff Barbara and Charles Stevens Elissa Finney and Steven Weisberg Nancy and David Rosenthal and Alan Shonkoff Harold Stoll Randy Weiss Joan Rosenthal * Cecilia Shraibman Donald Strauss Laurie and Terry Weitzman David Rosenzweig Larisa and Lazar Shukman Helga R. Strauss Jeanette Werboff Alan L. Ross Raya Shuman Virginia Stuart Erna Wertheim Hillard S. Ross * Faina and Mark Shvartsman Berta and Donald Sugarman * Michael White Elizabeth and Tracy Ross Marilyn and Donald Sidel Marilyn Sugarman Michael Wickler Wanda P. Ross Linda and Marty Siders Jeffrey S. Suslow Ruth and Rene Willdorff * Genevra and Morris Rossman Viktoriya Kozlova Miriam E. Suslow * Judith and Robert L. Williams Marlena and Ronald Rossman and Paul Sidorov Svetlana Sviridova * Jefferson Wilson Fonda Rothblatt Sylvia and Albert Siegel * Eric Swagel Deanne and Frank Winer Morris A. Rothman * Mary and David Siegel Shelly Swanson Cecile E. Winton * Mildred and Leonard Rothschild Ann and Norman Siegel Sara and Donald Sweet Mildred Wohl * Leatrice Bohne Lois and Seymour Siegel Rita Syrkin Lee Wolfe and Monroe C. Rothschild * Elke Lerman and Harry Silver Betty and Victor Szteinbaum * Marian and Harold Wolfson Sura and Azya Rubalskiy * Toby Silver Rochelle and Sander Taboh Ivan Wolfson Eloise and Nathan Rubin Roni Silverberg Beatrice and Robert Taines Barbara and Allan Wolk Ingrid and Wayne Rubin * Sharon and Leonard Silverman * Rose and Edward Tamler Sybil and Adrian Woodhouse Susanna and Yan Rubin Judith and Robert Silverman Carol and Ludwig Tannenwald * Francine and Phillip Woolfe * Stefi Rudolph Pauline E. Forman Rachel Tasch Emma and Mark Yakubovich Fred Rudow * and Albert E. Silverstein * Jan Tatarsky Raisa Yalkitman

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Carole and John Ruffo Joanie Silverstein Susan and Harold Tauber Victoria and Vadim Yampolsky Beryini Saca Naomi Silverstein * Ketty and John Taylor Anne-Marie and Elliot Yellin Judith G. Sack Suzanne E. Silverstein * Francyne and Joel Teisch Jean H. Yerman * Mary and Eugene Sacks * Betty Simon * Rabbi David H. Teitelbaum Liya and Moisey Yoffe Edith Sadewitz * Marilyn Schneider Martha and Peter Tenenbaum * Elizabeth and Vladimir Yukhtman Mark Sadoff and Edward A. Simon Joanne Tick * Harry Yuval Boris Sagalov Norma Siskin * Nina and William Todd Nirit Zack-Peri Janet L. Saks * Emily Skolnick Adelaide and Ronald Tolberg Julia and Vladimir Zagetsky Lorraine and Alan Samuel * Lyudmila Medvedeva Janet and Louis Tomimatsu Lore and Berthold Zanders * Edith Samuel * and Valeriy Skordin * Juana Torczyner Susan and Leonard Zegans Hannah G. Samuels * Klavdia and Ervin Skoretsky Florein P. Trager * Pearl Zeimer Laurie and Jeffrey Santos Norma and Herbert Slavit Sooky Trattner Edward A. Zeisler Reva Saper * Svetlana and Mikhail Slavutskiy Ruth C. Traver Barbara Rothenberg Svetlana Sapukhina Janet Sluizer Mary Treuhaft and Marshall Zemon * Bertha Schaffer Philip Smaller Freda and George Trigiano Raisa Kanevskaya and Ilya Zilberstein Lee Ann Slaton and Gary Schaffer Dolly Smith * Nyusya Tsikinovskaya Marilyn and David Zimmerman * Arthur Scharlach Pauline N. Smith * Eugenia G. Tsyporin * Leah Zimmerman Gloria and Bud Scheideman * Jacqueline and Robert Smith Ruth and Cyril Tukeman * Sharon R. Zimmerman * Charlotte and Bernard Scheier * Faith and Willard Smith * Agnes and Mikhail Tulchinsky Schirley and Tally Zisman Ludwika Schein * Fredie Sobel Vivian and Tim Turner Lyudmila Zvyagilskaya * Leonard Schlussel Ceevah and Irwin Sobel Sharon J. Udkoff Jane and Edward Zwig Doreen and Martin Schmidt Brian Sonet Aimee A. Wahed and Roger Vaede * Anonymous (12) Joyce and Robert Schnal Bella Sorren Inna Vaiser Judi and Joe Schneider Michelle and Dennis Sosa Linda Van Lieu Barbara and Larry Schneider Diana Sosnick * Marcella Vann Marilyn Schneider Marcia D. Sosnick Frederika and Burton Vaupen Susan Schramm Spansion Employee Funds Gertrude G. Vederoff * Eugene Veklerov Berta and Paul Schreier * Harry Spatz * We have made every effort to Lynda Schroth Marcia and David Sperling Bella Verkhovsky ensure that our lists of supporters Margaret Schulz Brian H. Spigelman * Mina Vidrevich * Myrtle and Joel Schwartz Karen and Samuel Spivack Larisa Vishnevskaya are up to date. It is possible that Doris C. Segale Sandra Spring Phyllis Rosenfeld and Harry Vogel a name may be misspelled or Helen and David Segall Susanne Spritzer * Avram Volfovsky * omitted. If so, please accept our Minnie and Gregory Selikin * Tasha and David Stadther Lauren Vucinich sincere apology, and kindly notify Linda Semi Patricia Stafford Jessica and Andrew Waggoner our Organizational Advancement James Sergovic Alice Staller Lesley Walsh department at 415.406.1107 so Bella Shamovsky Susan M. Cremer and Jane E. Stampe Pauline and Julian Weidler * that we can make the appropriate Saralyn and Allan Shapiro Beverly and Bruce Stamper Leni and Rolf Weil change to our records.

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 45 When she walks into the Jewish Home, Linda Kalinowski does not have unrealistic expectations. After nearly four years of volunteering as a spiritual care partner, she knows to be “ready to roll with the punches, to be with the residents in their experience at the moment.”

Linda is a volunteer in the award-winning, opportunities, including Torah study through a ‘rosh nationally-recognized Kol Haneshema program, a chodesh,’ a women’s study group. unique collaboration of the Jewish Home, the Bay Area “About five years ago, I realized that board and Jewish Healing Center, and the Zen Hospice Project, committee obligations were outweighing my adult which trains volunteers to spend time with residents education or spiritual pursuits,” she says. “I decided I in the final months and days of their lives. Linda was needed to change course. I wanted to focus on direct among the first group of volunteers in the program. volunteering. I didn’t know what I was going to do, Volunteering is part of her family’s culture. Her family but one day I opened up j., the Jewish news weekly moved around a lot when she was growing up because of of Northern California, and there it was: the Bay her father’s career, but wherever they lived, her mother Area Jewish Healing Center was looking for hospice was a community volunteer. Once Linda had completed volunteers. I knew that was it.” her education (she has a B.A. in biology, an M.A. in public At least once a week, Linda devotes time to residents health, and a law degree from Hastings), married and at the Jewish Home. She may visit a particular resident started her own family, volunteering became a major with whom she has been ‘partnered’ for a while, or aspect of her life. She spent many years on committees someone she is just getting to know. She might engage in and boards of Jewish and other organizations. At the conversation, listen to stories, or just sit quietly, perhaps same time, she delved into a variety of adult education holding the resident’s hand. She has experienced grief

46 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Jewish Home Service Volunteers i k a Kalinows d

Kol Haneshama volunteer Linda Kalinowski (left), Jewish Home resident Betty London (center), and Betty’s daughter, Madeline London (right), share a moment of warmth and laughter. in L

She has experienced grief and sadness, as well as happiness, humor, and love. And she has gained a new appreciation for the unique beauty and meaning of each individual’s life.

and sadness, as well as happiness, humor, and love. And knew what was happening. I could sit at his bedside, and she has gained a new appreciation for the unique beauty I could talk my mother through it.” and meaning of each individual’s life. And it has taught her to slow down. “When I’m feeling Recently, Linda has been partnered with 93-year-old particularly stressed or harried, I’ll remind myself to try Betty London. “When I spend time with Betty, I take note to take on my ‘Jewish Home self.’ of the little hidden gems I hear from her, her maxims,” “I’ve always been concerned about how to make Linda recounts. “For example, Betty said, ‘God made an impact on this world,” says Linda. “When I’m at the mothers because God can’t be everywhere.’” Home, I hear people’s stories. Every person has some Betty’s daughter, Madeline London, is grateful for kind of a story, and every one is extraordinary. It makes Linda’s caring nature and attention. “Linda has so much me appreciate my own stories, and that’s the greatest heart. She genuinely shares herself with my mom, and gift the residents have given me.” my mom feels blessed by that.” Being involved with Kol Haneshema and interacting If you would like to explore serving as a Kol Haneshama volunteer spiritual care partner, please call either Rabbi Jon with seniors in the last months of their lives has Sommer at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, 415.750.4198, provided tools for her own life, Linda observes. For one or Rabbi Sheldon Marder at the Jewish Home, 415.469.2254. thing, it helped her deal with her father’s death. “When Volunteers receive ongoing support and education that deepens my father was actively dying, it was terribly sad, but I both their personal experience and their service to others.

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 47 Jewish Home Service Volunteers July 2008 – June 2009

We gratefully recognize the following individuals and the generous donation of their time, talents, and abilities to enriching the lives of our older adults.

Jerry Abrams Gail Cohen Susan Julius Joy Mendoza Shira Shore Pamela Abramson Laura Connelly Shaul Kabakchy Anna Mercado Sue Siegel Tom Adams Jason Cura Mariya Kaganskaya Jane Merschen Jordan Sills Helen M. Adler Jenna D’Ull Kate Kalinowski Yevgeniya Mikheyeva Nicky Silver Maureen E. Adler Rochelle Datangel Linda Kalinowski Peter Milinazzo Alan Silverman Michael Adler Ian David Pamela Kane Chris Mingau Roger Sinasohn Aaron Alcantara Dr. James A. Davis Doug Kaplan Karl Mitchell Jr. Sean Sison Theresa Allison Shannon Devlin Robin Karp Stephen Mittel Estella Smart Adi Alouf Patrick Dunne Sam Karp Linda Mogel Joel Smith Barbara Anderson Elaine Ehrman Sandy Karp Mary Molina Cheyenne Snavely Julia Angeles Audrey Eichorn Sheri Karp Scott Montgomery Arthur Soroken Bessie Anglim Shirley and Ben Eisler Shoshana Karp Candace Moore Stephen Sperber Ben Anixter Hal Epstein Regina Karson Lois Moore Taje Springfield Earl Annecston Erica Evans David Kaskowitz Simonne Moreno Andrew Sprinkles Lee Appel Kiki Faafiu Marty Kassman Rae Morgenstein Mariya Starikova Jakob Atlas Sharon Fee Stephen Katten Julian Morrisette Eric Steger Marcia Bach Alan Feren Madison Kaviyakone Nekea Mozeke Marilyn Sugar Bobbi Bader Sam Ferguson Charles Kelly Joy Mun Terry Kraus Raphael Balbino Lynn Figueroa Lillian Klein Jazmine Munoz and Mark Sugarman Beverly Baliling Rebekah Finer Arnold Kleinerman Mark Myers Raisa Sullivan Bert Banks Arturo Flores Marilyn Kline Peter Neubauer Stephen Tam Estelle Bardoff Alina Foronda Jake Kopperman Bela Newman Faye Tan Paula Barish Victoria Fossett Sylvia Korn Shirley Nicdao Felise Tan Avi Baskin Judy Freespirit Arlene Krieger Kristine Nodalo Abby Teisch Elif Batuman Lois Fried Sofia Kushnirskaya Marleen Norman Rebecca Tokarchuk Susanne Baum Kathleen Friedlander Winnie Kwang Diane Olmstead Karen Tom Merle Becker David Friedman Edna Lachar Jack Orovitz Kevin Tom Hagar Ben-Eliezer Phyllis K. Friedman Joan Laguatan Elleen Palencia Anthony Trainor Allan Berenstein Don Friend Anna Lalaind Christmarie Pangan Charlie Tsang Leonard Berger Zoe Fuchs April Lapidus Yeoun Park Elaine Tsang Denise Bernstein Emilya Gaft Sandy Larsen Bonnie Pearlman Helena Tse Joanne Bernstein Rudy Garcia Melissa Lau Fortunata Perez Wing Tsui John Bielenberg Gayle Geary Allan Leader Betty Perry Philip Tynam Jacob Bilyak Frances Gensberg Kari Leblovic Margot Pierluissi Esti Uziel Sharon Blevis Maria Gerega Sheila Lederer David Polhemus Xochilt Vado Sue Bloch Eden Gines Barbara Leff Peter A. Pollat, M.D. Yelena Vaksman Genevieve Bolinao Peter Gleichenhaus Igor Lerman Jeff Ravetto Leticia Valencia Clark Bonafe Mitchell Goldenberg Nicholas Leung Daniel Rayant Samadhi Valle Yvette Borja David Goldstein Greg LeVasseur Rob Reicher Arkady Vayntrub Scott Boudewyn Patricia Gordon Helene Levy Edith Reiner Katarina Velardez Itai Brand-Thomas David Gray Eva Li Rasma Rekshans Gabriel Velasco Zerrel Breedlove Kyle Graycar Tiffany Li Carol S. Roberts Larisa Vinnitskaya Charlie Brown Frances Green Winnie Liang Thomas Roberts Liza Volansky Hilda Brunwasser Lauren Greenberg Choy Liu Nathan Robinson My Vu Sidney Burger Nicki Greenberg Herman Liu Elana Robinson-Lynch Izabella Vurgaft Pola Burk Milton Greenfield Benjamin Lloyd Paisha Rochlin-Lehrman Camille Walsh Carole Burns Irina Grigorian Mary Lotti Diana Roman Elliott Warshauer Vincent Busalacchi Melanie Grubman Jamie Louie Barbara C. Rosenberg Alan Warshaw Marian and Allan Byer Jose Guardado Sirena Louie Rachel Rosenberg Nina Weil Lorraine Cainia Fidan Guliyeva Tiffany Louie Ruth Ann Rosenberg Lillian Wein Elena Calderon Yefim Gutman Vincent Louie Susan Rosenberg Lora Weiner Sharon Camhi Dana Haasz Ben Lubitz Sheldon Rosenthal Lila Whitehead Jeff Campbell Sara Haber Dennis Lubitz Harry Rossit Joseph Williams Rochelle Canaya Issam Hamdallah Paul Lubitz Kate Rowland Lisa Windesheim-Zigas Stephy Capodanno Francine Hament Helen Luey Genya Royfman Cecile E. Winton Miranda Carlsen Debra Reynolds Erika Lumanug Lesley Ruda Lindy Wolf David Carmine and Steven Hammerschlag Louis Lurati Stephen Sabagquit Larry Wong Sean Carrillo Judy Hanson Leonid Lurye Edith Sadewitz Shirley Wong Nicole Castro Marcia Hastings Alex Lushtak Vivian San Andrea Wright Anwar Cataquiz Eda He Greg Mand Elianna Sanchez Mary Xu Nathaniel Catindig Gayle and Josef Helwani Mila Manuilova Elizabeth Sanchez Sofiya Yakhnin Beverly Chan Betty Hersch Esther Marcus Rafael Santiago Sean Yates Jonathan Chan Maddy Hess Victor L. Marcus Francesca Santos Nina Yee Lauren Chan Carol Hicks Gerry Mariano Malka Schleyer Anthony Ynami Dora Chen Marjorie Hilsenrad Zoe Marmer Mark Schulman Alex Yu Faina Cherdak Josephine Holsher Monica Marquez Ida E. Schwartz Louisa Yu Sydney Chiong Rudy Hooremans Liliya Matt Yakov Schwartz Jennifer and Nancy Yu Alex Cholokya Bobbie Horowitz Virginia Matthews Damien Scobie Catalina Zhang Derek Chu Gloria Houtenbrink Elizabeth McAndrew Maggie Scott Sylvia Zhang Eric Chu Jessica Huang Judith and Michael Maria Sebastian Alice Ziegler Robin Clarke Pama Huntley McCullough Janis Seeman Lydia Zinn Donato Cobarrubias Alyssa Ibarra Shaun McGrath Paul Shkuratov Joshua Zukerman Abby Cohen Analis Ibarra Jordan Medina Hyun Shon Amir Cohen Adrienne Jonas Xiao Mei Claire Shor

48 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 Community TEENS FOR TIKKUN OLAM

Jessia Hoffman, 16, of San Mateo, remembers the impact she had as a youngster when she visited residents at the Jewish Home. “It seemed to brighten their day,” she says. Daphna Torbati, also 16, says that her grandmother, who lives near her family in Foster City, is a great inspiration to her.

It is these reasons – and more – that motivated Jessia and Daphna to include the Jewish Home as a 2009 recipient of a $2,000 grant from the North Peninsula Jewish Community Teen Foundation ation (NPJCTF). d The NPJCTF is an innovative program of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties designed to develop an understanding of philanthropy in teens.

There are four Teen Foundation boards in the Bay een Foun Area, each comprised of a select group of members. T

“It was really cool to be with

teens who have the same unity passion to fix the world.” mm o

As part of the NPJCTF board of 24, Jessia and C Daphna helped to create the group’s mission, and evaluated grant proposals from dozens of organizations to determine which would receive funds from the $42,000 raised by team members. The group decided to fund nine Jewish non- Jessia Hoffman (left) and Daphna Torbati of the North profits that address medical needs, with the goal Peninsula Jewish Community Teen Foundation present of self-sufficiency. The two teens agreed that the their group’s grant check to the Jewish Home. Jewish Home fit the group’s mission, and were determined to make their case. self-sufficiency, even when they can’t do some of “This resulted in quite a debate,” observes Sheila the things they used to.” Devore, director of the teen group. “The board While the Home’s activities were paramount in wanted to support the most vulnerable in our the discussion, the group decided not to direct their community. Jessia and Daphna had to convince the grant to a particular program at the Home, and others that the Jewish Home was one of the top instead provided operating funds. “Everything in nine of the many potential recipients from whom the organization needs to be paid for, even if it’s just

they’d received proposals.” keeping the lights on,” notes Daphna. orth Peninsula Jewish

Ultimately, it was the activities at the Home For both teens, participating in the NPJCTF was N promoting self-sufficiency that swayed the a remarkable learning experience. “It was really group. “I was really impressed with the Home’s cool to be with teens who have the same passion music programs, art and discussion groups, and to fix the world,” Jessia explains, “who care as much even opportunities for residents to go to classes as I do.” at a nearby university,” says Jessia. “These keep Adds Daphna: “It was probably one of the residents active and in tune with the community, most worthwhile and life-changing experiences and give them a real sense of independence and I’ve had.”

2009/2010 Jewish Senior Living 49 Community Partners Gifts in Kind

We gratefully acknowledge the following The following individuals, businesses, and community organizations, agencies, and facilities organizations have contributed goods and whose active involvement and collaboration services to the Jewish Home of San Francisco during the past year have greatly enhanced from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. the care, programs, and services offered We sincerely appreciate their support. by the Jewish Home of San Francisco.

Aging Services of California Jewish War Veterans Absinthe Brasserie & Bar Peju Province Winery Alzheimer’s Association of the Kaiser Permanente Aubrey Organics Peter Olivetti Photography Greater San Francisco Bay Area Kalsman Institute on Judaism B.R. Cohn Winery Peter A. Pollat, M.D. American Association of Homes and Health Bay Cities Produce Gary Powell & Services for the Aging Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Fritzi L. Benesch Pure Bliss Essentials American College of Traditional League of Women Voters Beringer Vineyards Linda Richardson Chinese Medicine Local Independent Charities Donald Seiler and Norman Berkman Ruth Roberts American Jewish Committee of the of America Rebecca A. Blumen Rosenblum Cellars San Francisco Bay Area Mayer-Kalsman Fellows Books Aloud, Inc. San Francisco Opera American Society on Aging Mayor’s Youth Employment and Karen and Alan Buschman See’s Candies Archbishop Riordan High School Education Program Marian and Allan Byer Barbara Sellin Association of Geriatric Menorah Park Callaway Golf Barbara B. Shupin Care Managers Mercy High School Castello di Amorosa Winery Ellie and Alvin Silver Association of Jewish Aging Services Montefiore Senior Center Linda B. Cedarbaum Dena Sorbo Bay Area Cluster Group National Association for Visually Charles Chocolates Roberta J. Silverstein of Professional Geriatric Handicapped Clos Du Val Winery and Stephen M. Sperber Care Managers National Federation of Temple Youth Clos Pegase Winery Paul May and Frank Stein Bay Area Jewish Healing Center NCP College of Nursing Contemporary Jewish Museum Marlene and Martin Stein Bay Area Mitzvah Corps On Lok, inc. The Course at Wente Vineyards Suzanne’s Specialties Bay Area Social Workers Ocean Beach Veterinary Clinic Drs. Claire T. and James A. Davis Judith Szpiro In Health Care Oshman Family Jewish Community Melanie Bayon and Vicky Dayan Tarantula Azul Belvedere Montessori School Center of Palo Alto Dr. Bronner’s Town’s End Restaurant & Bakery Brandeis Hillel Day School PBS-TV Henry Drejer Traditional Medicinals Bread & Roses Peninsula Jewish Community Center EarthLust Traveling Jewish Theatre California Pacific Medical Center Peninsula Temple Sholom Eric Schumacher Photography Vita Spelt, a product California State University East Bay Phillip & Sala Burton Rebecca Arons and Eric B. Fastiff of Purity Foods, Inc. Case Management Society of America Academic High School Frank Family Vineyards Karen and Martin Weiner City College of San Francisco Private Industry Council Vera Ginzbourg Wholesome Sweeteners Congregation B’Nai Emunah of San Francisco Sasha Glezerman Cecile E. Winton Congregation Beth Am Professional Grief Caregivers Elaine and Kieve Goodstein Congregation Beth Israel-Judea Network Eleanor Greenberg Congregation Beth Sholom Project ACHIEVE Greystone Hotels Congregation Emanu-El Retired Seniors Volunteer Program Janice Schwartz and Jerry Griffin Congregation Kol Shofar Rhoda Goldman Plaza Hagafen Cellars Congregation Ner Tamid Saint Ignatius College Preparatory Harris’ Steakhouse Congregation Rodef Sholom Samuel Merritt College Honig Vineyard & Winery Congregation Sha’ar Zahav San Francisco Bioethics Committee JC Cellars Congregation Sherith Israel San Francisco Conservatory of Music JCCSF Gentle Arts Club Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco Department Joshua Ets-Hokin Photography David Jacobson School of Music of Public Health Elaine Kapijan-Pitt Dominican University San Francisco Fire Department Robin, Sam and Sandy Karp Employment Plus Station 32 Shoshana Karp Excelsior Action Group San Francisco Hillel Kenwood Vineyards Family Service Agency San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Kiss My Face of San Francisco – San Francisco Senior Roundtable Lake Merced Golf Club Senior Companion Program San Francisco SPCA Late July Organic Snacks Galileo Health Academy San Francisco State University Edith Levin Hebrew Care-a-Van San Francisco State University Terye and Jacob Levy Hebrew Free Loan Teen Theatre Arts Marilyn and Michael Levy Fellowship Program San Jose State University Jane Lewis Hebrew Union College – SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Lexus Champions Jewish Institute of Religion Sisterhood of Congregation for Charity/Octagon Hotel Employees and Restaurant Beth Israel-Judea Lieff Cabraser Heimann Employees Union Local 2 Sonoma Valley Hospital & Bernstein, LLP Ingleside Police Station Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life Helen Manber, M.D. In-Home Supportive Services Temple Beth El Gladys and Larry Marks of San Francisco Union for Reform Judaism Max’s Restaurants Institute on Aging United Synagogue Youth Robin and Phil Metz IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39 University Mound Ladies Home Mission Jewelry & Loan j. (formerly the Jewish Bulletin) University of California at Berkeley Phyllis K. Moldaw Jewish Community Center University of California at Davis Monticello Vineyards of San Francisco University of California Marion and Kurt Mostny Jewish Community Center at San Francisco National Association Social Action Leadership University of San Francisco for Visually Handicapped Jewish Community Endowment Fund ViBO Music School Eva Nicholson Jewish Community Federation United Way of the Bay Area Numi Tea Jewish Community Federation The Volunteer Center Oat Cuisine Young Adult Division Volunteer Match One Market Restaurant Jewish Family and Children’s Services Zen Hospice Project Organic Valley Family of Farms Jewish High School of the Bay Oshadhi USA Jewish Vocational Service Lyudmila Pavlova and Yuriy Pavlov

50 Jewish Senior Living 2009/2010 The design of Moldaw Family Residences, the senior living community on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, received the 2008 Gold and Innovation Awards in Best of 50-plus Housing from the National Association of Home Builders.

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Community shares music, theater, performances, and social events at the Albert & Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, a state-of-the-art facility on the Taube Koret Campus. The campus swept all three of its categories in the 2009 San Jose Business Journal’s Structures awards: Developer of the Year; Best Mixed-Use Project of the Year; Best Redevelopment /Reuse Project of the Year.

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Coming up: Jewish Home's annual Chanukah show. Join us! If you think American Idol, the TV reality competition that discovers new solo musical talent, is a success, just wait until you see American Chai-dol – the Jewish Home’s annual Chanukah show that showcases residents’ star qualities and musical flair. Community show performance: 2:00 p.m., Sunday, December 13, 2009 in the Lynne & Roy Frank Family Lounge, Jewish Home of San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.jhsf.org/chanukah and by calling 415.469.2248 UnRetire. The Un-Retirement Community. Not ready for senior living? Can’t say we blame you. Moldaw Family Residences at 899 Charleston is unraveling the normal trappings of retirement living. Our campus is part of a neighborhood where multiple generations connect—every day. Unbelievable. Until you see it. 899 Charleston, it’s the un-retirement lifestyle you’ve been looking for.

Now open on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life. Call (650) 433-3629 to see it for yourself.

899 EAST CHARLESTON | PALO ALTO, CA 94303 | (650) 433-3629 | 899CHARLESTON.ORG Moldaw Family Residences at 899 Charleston welcomes and admission is open to older adults of all faiths, ethnicities and racial backgrounds.