San Francisco Golf Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California, It is one of the most exclusive private membership clubs in the United States. In Golfdigest's 2015-2016 ranking of America's best golf courses, San Francisco Golf Club secured the 35th best course.
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The Brandeis School of San Francisco, or Brandeis for short, is an independent, co-educational, Jewish day school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, located in the Park Merced neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. From its founding in 1963 until 1973, the school was known as Brandeis. Following the merge with the Hillel School, the school was known as Brandeis Hillel Day School. As of July 1, 2015, the San Francisco campus of the former Brandeis Hillel Day School is now The Brandeis School of San Francisco.
The school is a member of the California Association of Independent Schools.
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Congregation Am Tikvah is a combined Conservative and Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 625 Brotherhood Way in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The congregation was formed in 2021 as the result of the merger of the Conservative B'nai Emunah and the Reform Beth Israel Judea congregations, with the latter formed in 1969 through a merger of the Conservative Congregation Beth Israel and the Reform Temple Judea. The congregation is affiliated with both the Union for Reform Judaism and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Beth Israel was founded in 1860 as an Orthodox congregation. Members worshiped in leased premises, first on Sutter Street, and then a larger space on Mission Street. In 1879 the congregation completed its first building on Turk Street, but soon outgrew it, and in 1891 constructed a new synagogue building on Geary Street. In 1908 it constructed a larger synagogue building on Geary Street, where it remained until 1969. By this time the congregation had moved to Conservative Judaism. The congregation's rabbis were M. Wolf, A. Streisand, Aron J. Messing, Meyer Solomon Levy, Herman Lissauer, and Elliot M. Burstein. Joseph Rabinowitz was cantor from 1891 to 1943.
B'nai Emunah was founded in 1949 by mostly German Jews who had fled to Shanghai in the late 1930s. After World War II, some of the Shanghai Jews settled in San Francisco.
Temple Judea was founded in 1953, the first Reform synagogue built in San Francisco in almost 125 years. Its first rabbi was Robert W. Shapiro, and he was succeeded by Irving Reichert and then Herbert Morris in 1962. In 1964 Temple Judea completed a synagogue building at 625 Brotherhood Way.
Beth Israel and Temple Judea merged in 1969 as Congregation Beth Israel-Judea, adopting practices from both congregations, and moving to Temple Judea's building. Morris became the rabbi of the combined congregation, and Burstein became rabbi emeritus. Morris retired in 1998, was succeeded by Evan Goodman. Goodman left in 2006, and was succeeded by Rosalind Glazer.
Beth Israel-Judea and B'nai Emunah congregations merged in 2021, affiliating with both the Conservative and Reform organizations and worshiping in the former Beth Israel-Judea synagogue building, located on Brotherhood Way. Rabbi Sami Barth was appointed as interim rabbi during the merger; and, in 2023, Rabbi Chayva Lehrman was appointed to lead the merged congregation.
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19th Avenue and Randolph station is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located in the Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The stop has no platforms; trains stop at marked poles before crossing Randolph Street and passengers cross a parking lane on 19th Avenue to board trains. The stop is not accessible.
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19th Avenue and Junipero Serra / 19th Avenue and Randolph stations are a pair of light rail stops on the Muni Metro M Ocean View line, located in the Merced Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The inbound stop is located on 19th Avenue at Junipero Serra Boulevard, while outbound trains stop on 19th Avenue at Randolph Avenue. The stop has no platforms; trains stop at marked poles and passengers cross a vehicle travel lane on 19th Avenue to board and depart trains. The stop is not accessible.
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Parkmerced is a neighborhood located on the West Side of San Francisco, California. It was designed by architects Leonard Schultze and Thomas Dolliver Church in the early 1940s. Parkmerced is the second-largest single-owner neighborhood of apartment blocks west of the Mississippi River after Park La Brea in Los Angeles. It was a planned neighborhood of high-rise apartment towers and low-rise garden apartments in southwestern San Francisco for middle-income tenants.
Parkmerced contains 3,221 residences and over 9,000 residents, and is one of four remaining privately owned large-scale garden apartment complexes in the United States. The complex is located south of SFSU, west of 19th Avenue, and east of Lake Merced and the Harding Park Golf Club. The far western boundary of the neighborhood extends to Lake Merced Boulevard, and the neighborhood is popular with students and faculty at San Francisco State University because of its proximity.
In October 2005, the property was sold to a joint venture between Stellar Management and Rockpoint Group from a JP Morgan Chase and Carmel Partners joint venture entity, for approximately $687,000,000.
After defaulting on 1.8 billion Dollars in Loans, the property was ordered into receivership in March of 2025, with Douglas Wilson Companies acting as receiver and San Francisco based property managers Brick + Timber taking over operations.
History
San Francisco Golf Club was one of seven golf clubs West of the Allegheny Mountains when it was founded in 1895. It had its beginning at the Presidio of San Francisco as a nine-hole course. It was moved to 19th and Ocean streets in 1904 and to its present location in 1915. The course was designed by noted American golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast. The course's signature 7th hole overlooks the site of the final legal duel in California.
Notable members
Charles R. Schwab Condoleezza Rice
See also
List of golf courses designed by A. W. Tillinghast List of American gentlemen's clubs