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Gary Piccola
Ahavath Achim Synagogue has a longtime connection to the AIDS Memorial Quilt, including this panel.
December 23, 2019, 12:03 pm
YIR: Jewish Names Remembered as AIDS Quilt Leaves Atlanta
By the end of February 2020, the AIDS Memorial Quilt will have left Atlanta after 18 years and returned to San Francisco, where it originated in 1987.
By Dave Schechter
The quilt has some 50,000 panels sewn into 12-by-12-foot blocks bearing the names of more than 105,000 people that when spread out would span more than 1.3 million square feet.
November 19, 2019, 3:07 pm
Jewish Names Remembered as AIDS Quilt Leaves Atlanta
“Atlanta’s loss is surely San Francisco’s gain.” Rabbis and activists express regrets and hopes as memorial to AIDS victims returns to city of its birth.
By Dave Schechter
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