Kaima Farms
Kaima Farm is a unique farm that employs youth who have not found success through conventional schooling. Kaima provides an alternate route to viable livelihood through agriculture, pairing two youth […]
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Created “b’tselem elohim”
/in San Diego Jewry SubmissionJewish tradition teaches that all people were created b’tselem elohim (literally: in the image of God). My Jewishness is rooted in this notion of valuing the humanity of each being, […]
Working on a Jewish Farm
/in San Diego Jewry SubmissionHaving the opportunity to work at Coastal Roots Farm has allowed for my Jewish exploration and identity to thrive. I worked for 15 years in an elementary school teaching Jewish […]
Salk News: Gene identified that will help develop plants to fight climate change
/in Leichtag Commons NewsSalk team’s finding will advance initiative to reduce atmospheric carbon through plants LA JOLLA—Hidden underground networks of plant roots snake through the earth foraging for nutrients and water, similar to […]
Exit Letter for Self-Sufficiency Grant Strategy
/in Leichtag News, UncategorizedDear Friends, In the 12 years since becoming independent, the Leichtag Foundation has awarded $110 million in grants to hundreds of talented and trusted partner nonprofits which work to better […]
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.