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Seventy Days in a Pandemic…Hundreds of Lessons
May 18, 2020 in Featured, Grant Stories, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortIf not now, when? And if not us, who? At Leichtag Foundation, these questions from our Jewish texts have long driven and compelled us. We aim to act with urgency in response to pressing needs in the communities we support. We try never to sacrifice progress for the perfect. Sometimes this means experimenting with many […]
Counting the Omer: Hod
May 11, 2020 in Featured, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortCounting the Omer: Tiferet
April 27, 2020 in Featured, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortCounting the Omer: Gevurah
April 19, 2020 in Featured, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortHow to help during the pandemic
March 16, 2020 in Featured, HIVE Featured, Leichtag Commons News, Leichtag News, Uncategorized /by Jessica KortDear Friends, How do we demonstrate our concern and care for others while we are responsibly staying physically apart? It’s a question we’re grappling with at the Leichtag Foundation, and we’ve heard many of you are, too. Events at Leichtag Commons and most partner organizations have been canceled. We are socially distancing and working remotely. […]
COVID-19 Response: Learn, Adapt, and Take Action with Us
March 15, 2020 in Featured, HIVE Featured, Leichtag News, Uncategorized /by Jessica KortOn the Road – Moishe House Mexico City
January 7, 2020 in Featured, Grant Stories, North County Jewish Life /by Jessica KortMichelle and Floretta greet us with warm smiles and hugs for Shabbat at their Mexico City Moishe House. Located in Condesa, a stylish neighborhood with chic bistros and galleries, the house is contemporary yet cozy with muted color walls, soft lighting, flowers, and plush couches and chairs. Clearly much thought has gone into creating this […]
Jewish Family Service’s Proposal for a Safe Parking Program in Encinitas
November 16, 2019 in Featured, Leichtag Commons News, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortEvery night, Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) operates a Safe Parking Program in three locations in San Diego for unsheltered San Diegans living out of their vehicles, many of whom are experiencing homelessness for the first time. As these individuals and families work to lift themselves up out of a difficult situation, many […]
Announcing a New Tenant at Leichtag Commons: the Israeli Agtech Innovation Center
May 10, 2019 in Featured, Leichtag News /by Jessica KortHappy birthday Israel! To celebrate, we announced an exciting new tenant at the Commons: the Israeli Agtech Innovation Center, a consortium of five innovative Israeli agricultural start-ups specializing in horticulture and post-harvest technology. The consortium works in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry. We’re so proud to welcome the Center to a […]
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.