The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series kicks off 2026 with the continuation of its 2025-26 season of free lectures with Adam Maslia, Director of the Finest Community Coalition. He will be speaking on the topic of The Closing of the Horseshoe: The Mainstreaming of Antisemitism from Fringe to Feed at the Coronado Public Library’s Winn Room on January 21st at 10:30 a.m. For more information and to register, please visit www.lfjcc.org/arts.
The next lecture in the series will be presented on February 18th at 10:30 a.m. with Dr. Samantha Goldstein, who will be speaking on The Catskills Come to Your Living Room: The Entertaining Life of Gertrude Berg, Jewish Media Mogul.
The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture. All lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information on future lectures in the series and other programs, contact the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at 858-362-1150 or www.lfjcc.org.
VOL. 116, NO. 2 – Jan. 14, 2026