About The Jeighborhood
The Jeighborhood is your Jewish neighborhood - a landscape of programs, informal interest groups, courses, camps, and celebrations that bring the JCC to you. The Jeighborhood borrows from the incredible programs offered at the J - from CJC lectures to Jewish holiday celebrations to summer camp - and offers entry points that are closer to home. Our mission is to connect the entire San Diego community to Jewish heritage, identity, experiences and values - and not only those who live close by. The Jeighborhood aims to meet people where they are, both figuratively and literally.
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Upcoming Programs & Events
MANDELBAUM FAMILY LECTURE SERIES: The Catskills Come to Your Living Room: The Entertaining Life of Gertrude Berg, Jewish Media Mogul
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 10:30 AM
City of Coronado Club Room
1985 Strand Way Coronado, CA 92118
Gertrude Berg is a unique figure in Catskills history, perhaps the only woman to help manage a Catskills family resort and then steer that experience into a national multimedia entertainment career. This talk with Dr. Samantha Goldstein will explore how her adolescence in hospitality led to one of the most popular early television series, The Goldbergs, and why her legacy is so infrequently mentioned today.
Price: Complimentary
MANDELBAUM FAMILY LECTURE SERIES: The Catskills Come to Your Living Room: The Entertaining Life of Gertrude Berg, Jewish Media Mogul
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NORTH COUNTY LECTURE SERIES:
Monday, February 23, 2026 | 10:30 AM
Carlsbad City Library | Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium
1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad, CA 92011
In the conclusion to the 2025-26 North County Lecture Series, we join Rabbi Ron Shulman of Congregation Beth El for a thoughtful reflection on Jewish sources that address the intersection of democratic values and social responsibility in a pluralistic society. Can we respect those with whom we disagree and disagree with those whom we love?
Price: Complimentary
Democracy & Decency, Debate & Diversity | February 23
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EAST COUNTY LECTURE SERIES:
The Rabbi, The Reverend & Jerusalem: Can Fiction and Friendship Heal What Politics Can't?
Tuesday, February 24, 2025 | 10:30 AM
Tifereth Israel Synagogue
6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd, San Diego, CA 92119
Jerusalem is the spiritual heart of three great religions as well as a place of enduring discord. It's also the inspiration for new novels by two San Diego authors: Here There Is No Why by Phil Graubart, former senior rabbi at Congregation Beth El in La Jolla, and A Rooftop in Jerusalem by Michael Kinnamon, former general secretary of the national council of churches. Their unique presentation will touch on the power of fiction to bridge social divisions, the importance of interfaith understanding at a time when politics seem so fractured, and the city of Jerusalem as a symbol of religious longing and conflict.
These programs are presented in partnership with Tifereth Israel Synagogue
Price: Complimentary
The Rabbi, The Reverend & Jerusalem | Feb 24
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MANDELBAUM FAMILY LECTURE SERIES: Letters to My Father: Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | 10:30 AM
Coronado Public Library | Winn Room
640 Orange Avenue Coronado, CA 92118
In our fifth lecture of the Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series, author and professor Kathleen Balgley, PhD, will present her book Letters to My Father: Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus. Seeking to uncover her veiled Jewish background - and researching Polish antisemitism before, during, and after WWII - Dr. Balgley's book chronicles her two-year Fulbright in the then communist Poland. The author travels from Poland to Israel to meet relatives she had not known existed, and later journeys to her father's birthplace in Brest, Belarus where further revelations about her family come to light. Recently invited by Belarus' Jewish "The Together Plan", Dr. Balgley will report on her July 2025 visit back to Brest where she presents her story at the opening of The Embrace of Memory, a memorial to Brest's annihilated Jewish community.
Price: Complimentary
MANDELBAUM FAMILY LECTURE SERIES: Letters to My Father: Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus
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