COVER STORY
Purim and Persia
From Children’s Costumes to an Ancient Warning That Echoes Today Today, Purim is most visible as a joyful, almost carnival-like ...
Featured Stories
More Stories
FEATURE
The Quiet Power of Joy
Nathaniel Allenby, Legacy, and the Cycle That Connects Us All When General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem in 1917, he chose to walk. As ...
FEATURE
San Diegans Bear Witness to October 7 Survivors
By Donna Pinto & Tamar Siegel At a time when historical truth is too often challenged or blurred, bearing witness to lived experience ...
December 2025/January 2026
Learn. Serve. Lead. Bright Light Volunteers
A nationally recognized nonprofit organization, Bright Light Volunteers has a long history of making the world a brighter place for all. Working closely ...
December 2025/January 2026
An Unprecedented Week of Global Jewish Connection
In November, Jewish Federation of San Diego reached a meaningful milestone: four immersive travel programs unfolding across three countries in a single week. ...
- Gaza protest slogans amounted to ‘racial slurs’ toward Jews, Trump administration alleges in new Harvard lawsuitIn the Trump administration’s year-long battle with Harvard University threatening federal funding over alleged antisemitism, its precise concerns have emerged in fuzzy and piecemeal fashion — in comments from White House officials, administrative agency findings and letters to the university as a pressure campaign and negotiations dragged on. That changed Friday with a lawsuit filed... […]
- We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that onePhilip Roth and Judy Blume were born five years apart in the 1930s. Both grew up in New Jersey, in the crucible of Jewish American suburban assimilation. Both were haunted by the Holocaust, news of which trickled stateside just as they were nearing adulthood. And both are literary icons. But they’re icons of different kinds.... […]
Editor's Pick
St. Augustine, Florida
America's oldest city, and a bit of Miami Beach, too