By now, I hope you have heard about an upcoming effort to mobilize the community in support of San Diego’s remaining Holocaust Survivors. If not, you can read Brian Tauber's column from last week. This blog post doesn’t substantively add more to that announcement, but talk of Holocaust…
Posts from the last few weeks have been heavy, haven’t they? Such devastation. Such sadness. We have all felt the weight of recent events and I had every intention of posting something more uplifting this week.
I imagined writing about some of the conversations I have been having with …
As we all attempt to make sense out of last weekend’s tragedy in Pittsburgh, we feel both despair and hope. And we feel grateful to the thousands who gathered together at Congregation Beth Israel to stand together against hate. Below are the remarks I shared with the gathering. Please feel…
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to meet with visionary and passionate leaders from three different programs that have been supported by YOUR Jewish Federation:
Yachdav Senior Center
Bordering the campus of Sapir College, we spent a few hours with Chaya Bradman Levy, the director of the…
In 1999, a year after graduating with my Bachelor’s from the University of Arizona, I spent nearly a year living and doing volunteer work in Israel. Think ‘Israeli Peace Corp’ for North American Jews. The arch of the program was as follows: Three months living in an Immigrant Absorptio…
