Category: Blog

Dear friends, Tomorrow night, like millions of Jews around the world, I will sit at a seder table with family and friends to retell the story of Passover and our […]

Dear friends, Every Monday morning, our entire Federation staff sits down for a 30-minute “huddle.” We talk about what’s happening in the world, share joyful simchas and heartbreaking tragedies, reflect […]

Dear friends, San Diego’s Jewish community has shaped my life in profound ways, and I am honored and excited to step into the role of Jewish Federation of San Diego’s […]

Dear friends, A week after October 7th, my family and I went to the wedding of the daughter of some of our closest friends, whom we have known for a […]

This Sunday marks 100 days. One hundred days since the “Black Sabbath;” since more than 200 Israelis and foreign nationals were taken into Gaza as hostages. One hundred days of […]

Dear Friends, This past week, marking the one-month mark since the October 7 Hamas attack, has brought equal parts inspiration and joy and grief and anger. I want to start […]

Dear Friends, This week, in preparation for Yom Kippur and the demanding work of teshuvah (repentance), I spent some time looking back at 5783, and all of the communications we […]

Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that today marks a full year to the day since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And even more disturbing is that there is […]

Dear Friends, On Sunday night, we light the first candle of the Menorah, and each night we add light, right through the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. […]

Dear Friends, As I prepared my remarks yesterday for last night’s Town Hall on Antisemitism, once again I came back to the need to balance the light with the dark. […]