From Where I Sit...

Insights, community news, and updates from Jason Moss, our Executive Director

  • Jason Moss

    Executive Director of the Jewish Federation

A follow-up to the situation in Israel

Over the last week, North American Jewish Federation leaders, in partnership with Natan Sharansky and The Jewish Agency for Israel, have held meetings with dozens of Israel officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, members of Knesset, and Israeli ministers. We have also worked …

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The Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys stands with Jewish Federations and Jews from all over the world in its extreme disappointment of the Israeli Knesset's decisions on Sunday that reversed its 2016 decision to create an egalitarian space at the Kotel, along wi…

Now is the Time

As you are reading this issue of JLife SGPV, maybe you are at the beach, in your backyard, or by the pool. Or, maybe you are like so many other people using these summer days to spend time traveling. There are so many wonderful places and experiences possible.

This summer, many of our San G…

Be the change you want to see in the world

In my mind, the greatest asset we possess is not money or influence, but rather it is time. It is the one thing we have a finite amount of and, no matter what we do, we will never be able to attain any more than what we have been allocated.

Love thy neighbor as yourself - Are current events lessons for the future?

As our community faces this new context, we are taking into consideration our community’s safety and the safety of our children... As a Jewish community, we are working with each other to ensure that we have access to resources that we need, and we are reaching out to a breadth of local…