Rabbi Yossi Mintz, co-founder of Friendship Foundation, and Nina Patel, the foundation’s managing director, hold a rendering of a $36 million complex designed to help people with special needs integrate into society. The facility is expected to be complete by 2022. Photo by JP Cordero
Rabbi Yossi Mintz, co-founder of Friendship Foundation, and Nina Patel, the foundation’s managing director, hold a rendering of a $36 million complex designed to help people with special needs integrate into society. The facility is expected to be complete by 2022. Photo by JP Cordero
Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream.
Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society.