Category: Blog

Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe that two weeks ago today, I was celebrating Shabbat with the Jewish community of Mumbai and a group of Federation’s most generous supporters as […]

Dear Friends, Today marks the unthinkable 700th day since October 7, 2023; 700 unimaginable days of captivity for the remaining hostages being held by Hamas. I marked this terrible, painful milestone […]

On June 5, 2025, host families, site supervisors, and friends gathered to say farewell to our 2024-2025 ShinShinim during an evening of food, laughter, and reminiscing. As the night went […]

Dear friends, After 503 days, the news we dreaded – the news we knew on some level was coming – finally arrived. And all our hearts, which have been broken […]

Dear friends, Today’s news of the ceasefire and hostage release deal in Isarel is both a welcome relief, and a sign of much more work to come. We are especially […]

Friends, A few days ago, Heidi wrote to you from Sha’ar HaNegev following our second Solidarity Mission as Israeli artillery in Gaza boomed in the background. We spent four intense […]

This Sunday marks 100 days. One hundred days since the “Black Sabbath;” since more than 200 Israelis and foreign nationals were taken into Gaza as hostages. One hundred days of […]

Dear friends,  It has been almost a week since I returned from our Federation Solidarity Mission to Israel, and as I lit the candles with friends and family from San […]

Dear Friends, This past week, marking the one-month mark since the October 7 Hamas attack, has brought equal parts inspiration and joy and grief and anger. I want to start […]

Yesterday, I, along with Federation Board Chair David Bark, flew to Washington D.C. to gather with more than 200 Federation and partner agency leaders, philanthropists, and many national officials – […]