This picturesque park used to be a Jewish cemetery, owned by Congregation Sherith Israel and Congregation Emanu-El. It became inactive in 1894 when it was moved to San Mateo County.
The Castro Theatre is home base to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first of its kind in the country (started 1988) and the largest of its kind in the world.
The hospital was founded by SF's German-Jewish elite in 1887, but unlike Jewish hospitals in other cities, it was designed to serve the entire community.
In 1849, the very first Rosh Hashana service in San Francisco was held in a storefront near the Pyramid with 30 people. 10 days later for Yom Kippur, the number of attendees had doubled.
One of the first two synagogues in SF, it was founded by Eastern European Jews in 1851, and houses a stained glass window featuring Moses carrying the 10 commandments down from Half Dome in Yosemite.
One of the first two synogogues in SF, it was founded by Germanic Jews in 1851, and used to be located in Union Square.
