Join JPro San Diego to raise a glass as we share appreciation for all our professionals working for our Jewish Communal organizations. The professionals sustaining the San Diego Jewish community continue to serve our most vulnerable, foster connection, provide space for Jewish tradition, and ensure San Diego Jewish life thrives. We want to thank YOU for all that you do to keep this community strong. So please, enjoy some tasty bites, have some fun, reconnect with colleagues, and help us celebrate your contributions.
JPro San Diego will also honor several of our colleagues for their work, including the awardee and finalists of the Michael Jeser Outstanding Jewish Professional Award
All food will be kosher.
At this time, we are postponing the JPro San Diego Sunset and Celebration gathering for a future date. Please reach out to paige@thehivesd.org with any questions.
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.