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: 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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