Foundation Spotlight

Koret Taube Jewish Peoplehood Initiative

The Koret Foundation and Taube Philanthropies have launched a major initiative focused on Jewish Peoplehood, committing close to $100 million to capital projects, operating support and funding for Jewish cultural programs in the Bay Area, Poland and Israel.

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Sister Cities

San Francisco and Krakow are Sister Cities! Keep abreast of the news and ongoing activities celebrating the link between these two vibrant cities. And become a member of the San Francisco Krakow Sister Cities Association to receive invitations to special events.

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Poland Jewish Heritage Tours

For 1,000 years, Poland was the cradle of Jewish civilization. Today, the majority of world Jewry can claim their ancestral roots there, but few have had the opportunity to visit and to discover the vibrant Jewish renewal taking place there-until now.

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Jewish Culture Festival

The annual Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, the largest festival of its kind in the world, is a panoply of Jewish arts, music, workshops, film, exhibitions, and heritage tours, celebrating Jewish life and commemorating the thousand-year history of Jews in Poland.

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We are all aware of the massacres of Jews and Poles carried out by Nazi Germany on Polish soil; we know that some Poles were complicit in these crimes. We also witnessed Poland's Communist governments use anti-Semitism whenever they wished to deflect their own miserable failings.

But to see the years since Communism's collapse solely through the prism of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust is to sadly miss the point. Something remarkable is going on in Poland today, and the Jewish Heritage Initiative is helping nurture it.

-TAD TAUBE, CHAIRMAN