JFCS Holocaust Center

This Pride Month, join the JFCS Holocaust Center and Keshet for an evening honoring the lives and resilience of LGBTQIA+ individuals targeted under N**i persecution. In conversation with Ron Glait, author Alexis Herr will explore stories of identity, resistance, and survival, followed by a rare opportunity to view archival materials from the Tauber Library and Archive.

Register here: https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/turning-pages-bearing-witness/

May is Jewish American Heritage Month, making this the perfect time to celebrate the beauty of our community.

Share in the comments what makes you proud to be Jewish American!

On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), we invite you to make a tribute gift in honor or in memory of a loved one. When you do, their name will be included in a special Wall of Remembrance as part of the new JFCS Holocaust Center.

As antisemitism rises, the work your gift supports is urgent.

When Holocaust education is taught within the broader context of Jewish history, identity, contributions, and contemporary antisemitism, as it is at the JFCS Holocaust Center, it becomes a powerful tool. Students develop greater empathy, a stronger understanding of Jewish identity, and a deeper sense of civic responsibility.

On this day of commemoration, honor someone important to you and keep their memory alive for generations to come.

Make a tribute gift at the link:

https://donate.jfcs.org/give/488553/ #!/donation/checkout?c_src=social&c_src2=yhs-2026

As we gather around the Seder table this Passover, we’re reminded how much memory lives in the objects we use.

Hans Adler’s Seder plate is one of those objects. Made in early 20th-century Germany, it was something his family carried with them when they were forced to flee. Years later, in San Francisco, it still sat at the center of their Seder table.

Today, it is part of the Tauber Archives at the JFCS Holocaust Center, where it supports teaching that goes beyond history alone, highlighting the resilience, identity, and lived experience of the Jewish people.

At Passover, we’re asked to remember and to pass those stories on. That commitment guides our work every day, where these histories are preserved and shared, to bring understanding through education.

From all of at the JFCS Holocaust Center, Chag Pesach Sameach — wishing you a happy and meaningful Passover.

Over the weekend in San Jose, two Jews were beaten for speaking Hebrew.

Not threatening anyone.
Not harming anyone.
Just speaking their native language.

Days later in Michigan, a truck filled with explosives was deliberately driven into a synagogue. It was the fifth synagogue attacked in a week.

This is what anti-Jewish hate looks like, but it doesn’t begin with violence.

It begins with lies, distortion, and the normalization of hatred toward Jews and the Jewish state. It spreads through misinformation and conspiracy theories until it spills from screens into the real world.
Antisemitism does not stay frozen in history.
It evolves and mutates.

Today it often spreads through narratives shaped by decades-old antizionist propaganda, language that reframes old hatred in ways many people no longer recognize.

Education about the Holocaust and genocide remains essential. But we must also ask: how do we help people recognize the forms antisemitism takes today?

Teaching Jewish history, identity, and how anti-Jewish hate evolves is one of the most powerful tools we have to confront it before it becomes violence. Together, as educators, students, and communities, we can build a future where knowledge, courage, and solidarity push hatred back.

Silent for 60 years. One unexpected friendship changed everything.
Experience THE OPTIMIST on March 11.
🎟 Showtimes:https://www.theoptimistmovie.com/

This Yom HaShoah, memory lives through our voices.

Forever Remembered invites you to speak a name and take part in a shared act of remembrance.

🔗 Add your voice: https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/forever-remembered/ [link in bio]