The Chance to Pet a Dinosaur: ‘Priceless’
Over the past month I’ve had long involved conversations with 4- and 6-year-olds who can accurately and clearly pronounce the polysyllabic names of creatures from millions of years ago.
View ArticleLearning to Swim: Our Lives Depend On It
What is it about swimming that brings about such extreme reactions in young people? The JCCSF offers all sorts of afterschool enrichment activities, from clay class to karate. None of these provoke the...
View Article‘If Angels Could Rap’: Michael Estrada, Pre-Teen Rapper
“If angels could rap, I’d be a rap angel,” says Michael Estrada, a 6th grader at Claire Lilienthal Elementary School. “I say stuff like that because I have a lot of confidence in myself. I compare...
View ArticleWANTED: Books for San Francisco’s Children
First it was toiletries; then it was prom dresses, cans of food, and diapers. Now the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is raising books for kids in need! Throughout 2013, the JCCSF has...
View ArticleJeffrey Miller: San Francisco’s Playground Visionary
The new Lafayette Park playground, aka "The Gorge," is the latest work of a San Francisco landscape architect named Jeff Miller, who for the last three decades has quietly advanced a vision of how...
View ArticleJune 26, 2013: The Day San Francisco Became the Center of the World
San Francisco Pride, 2013. Photo by Lauren Greenberg If you were in San Francisco any time between last Wednesday when The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was dissolved and the following weekend of...
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