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Bess Kalb: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Jewish Book Council author Bess Kalb joins us to share anecdotes from her memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told by me) story. Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. In this debut memoir, Bobby is […]
RebBEE in Res: “Bringing Our Whole Selves to… The Table” with Rabbi Micah
via Zoom CASo much of the Jewish (and Jewish-adjacent) story can be told through foods. The things that we serve and eat can place us in the context of history, time, and place – or bring us together across difference. For many of us, they can also raise questions of authenticity. Together we will cook a (savory) Egyptian […]
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ReBEE in Res: “Who are the ‘right’ people?” with Rabbi Mira
via Zoom CA“Well, for instance, you want to be seen eating lunch/davening/studying with the right people!? So who are the right people? Well, those with Yichus/יחוס.” While the word originated in Hebrew, it is generally used to signify genealogy, lineage, taking into account the accomplishments of forbearers and current descendants in scholarship and religious observance. Come and […]
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RebBEE in Res: “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself – Judaism and Social Justice” with Rabbi Lizz
via Zoom CAIn this one hour session, Rabbi Lizz will give a broad overview of her view of Jewish Social Justice, and provide some useful sources texts directly from our sacred writings to illustrate how Jews should act not only with inclusion and tolerance in mind but with full advocacy for equity and justice for all.
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Bruce Feiler: Life Is in the Transitions
Bruce Feiler’s book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change at Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting life stories, exploring how we can navigate the number of life transitions with greater purpose and skill. Bruce joins us to share about his book. Presented in partnership with the San Diego Jewish Teen Initiative.
RebBEE in Res: “The Centrality of Narrative and Storytelling in Living Jewishly” with Rabbi Mira
via Zoom CAFoundational narratives like those found in Oral and Written Torah clarify the fundamental existence of our people around meaningful motifs, values, rights, and responsibilities. How has the impulse that led Jews to recount and to document events given future generations access to what could have been forgotten? Whenever and wherever civil behavior toward Jews have […]
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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.