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Emanu-El celebrates end of $97M renovation project

While hundreds milled about, admiring the newly built and radically renovated parts of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, Dana Shapiro, 81, stood in a less trafficked hallway.  She was hunting for her own face among rows of confirmation class photos from decades of Emanu-El history — she couldn’t remember if it was 1959 or 1960. […]