Jewish Community News

News from across San Diego's Jewish Community

Join us at OPTIONS


 

OPTIONS 2020 is right around the corner!  With your support, we will bring more than 600 Jewish women together to celebrate the COLLECTIVE POWER OF COMMUNITY. Our keynote speaker, Carol Leifer, is an award-winning comedy writer, best-selling author, and proud Lion of Judah. Carol’s d…

Conversation Over Coffee

Federation has a special guest in town this weekend from Berlin, Germany representing the Jewish Agency for Israel. Federation is hosting several events to share with the community how the Agency supports revitalization of Jewish communities outside of Israel. Anastassia “Nastia” Pleto…

Have You Doubled Your Impact?

Elaine Galinson understands the impact that a strong Federation can make on Jewish children, youth, teens, adults, and seniors. A longtime supporter, Elaine embraces Federation’s vision of caring for Jews in need wherever they are, building Jewish community and strengthening Jewish identi…

Reflections from Sderot


Efrat pictured with 3 of her 4 children. Efrat cares for 96 children and families in the Youth futures program and manages a dedicated team of mentors

When all over Israel families are resting on Shabbat and spending time together, our children here in the Sderot region suffered yet anothe…

Bringing Modern Israel to San Diego Campuses

by Jordan Daniels
Communications Associate for Leichtag Foundation 

The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII) is proud to announce the lineup of visiting Israeli professors who will teach 17 classes on modern Israel at San Diego university campuses for the 2019-2020 year. …