Please join The Hive and Coastal Roots Farm for a family-friendly Havdalah Zoom gathering led by Kesha Spoor and Sharone Oren from Coastal Roots Farm, Lauren Dolinka from San Diego Jewish Academy, and prayers led by Danielle Natelson.
This special High Holiday edition will include a Tashlich ceremony where you’ll be invited to self-reflect on the past year and what improvements you hope to make in the coming year.
Havdalah marks the sacred separation between the week and the Shabbat. And, while we are physically (but not emotionally or spiritually!) separate, we can still find and create holiness together.
Feel free to have your own wine, candles, spices, a bowl of water, paper and a writing utensil for the Tashlich ceremony.
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.