Jewish Community News

News from across San Diego's Jewish Community

Empowering Teens to Help the Homeless

Federation’s Jewish Teen Initiative in engaging teens across the county. Recently, we joined our national partner at the Jim Joseph Foundation, and the Lawrence Family JCC to provide a Teen Initiative Community Service Grant to Congregation B'nai Tikvah.

B'nai Tikvah used the grant to f…

A School, a Shofar, and a Question

Penny and Claudio Pincus recently traveled to Israel and visited a school that's part of a JDC program called "Schools With a Heart," for which they have been providing vitally important funding.

This unique endeavor is testing an approach to identify, diagnose, assist, counsel, and guide…

Helping Syrian Refugees Study and Smile in Turkey

Recently, I had the privilege of working with our partner International Blue Crescent (IBC) and Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, president of Turkey's Jewish community. We were in Gaziantep, Turkey's sixth-largest city with about 1.25 million people and now the home of an estimated 250,000 Syrian refug…

Creating A Space for Change in Israeli Society

By supporting Federation you enable us to fund life saving missions run by our partner The Jewish Agency for Israel, you help make programs like this possible.

For Independence Day we have decided to bring you a story of hope, and behind every story of hope there is a dreamer fulfilling t…

An Ally in Federation

When you support your Federation, you support the global effort to increase the well-being of all Jews in the U.S., Israel and around the world. Stories like this are only made possible because of your support. You can also learn more about Federation's LGBTQ mission to Israel, See Israel …