Part Two of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world.
There was a day last spring when Cindy Rogoway, executive director of Hebrew Free Loan, was really worried. The pandemic had hit, California was on lockdown and scores of people were suddenly thrust into financial insecurity. The S.F.-based organization, which gives out interest-free loans, was deluged with requests.
Cindy Rogoway
“We really found ourselves at this moment in March last year where I was very concerned that we wouldn’t have enough money to meet the needs of the people turning to us,” she said. “We had such a huge influx of applications.”
JFSA and Jewish Nevadavhave partnered to launch Hebrew Free Loan, a program that provides interest-free loans to Nevada’s Jewish community for a myriad of situational needs.
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Max Rodrigues Garcia
Max Rodrigues Garcia
Our father, Max Rodrigues Garcia, came to the United States with only hopes and dreams after surviving nearly three years as a prisoner within the Holocaust. He ultimately lived the “American Dream” and with our mother, Pat (1927-2002), they passed those hopes and dreams to us, David (1957), Tania (1960) and Michelle (1961).
Max was born in Amsterdam, June 28, 1924. He never again saw his parents, Elias and Rosetta, nor his sister Sippora, after they were murdered in 1942 and 1943. He was a prisoner of four different German concentration camps, including 18 months in Auschwitz as well as two death marches. When he was liberated by the 3rd Cavalry (U.S. Army) from a concentration camp, Ebensee, in the Austrian Alps on May 6, 1945, he was close to death but he found the strength to attach him
South Africa native and La Jolla resident Selwyn Isakow is known in the financial world as the founder, chairman and chief executive of private equity, real estate and venture investment firm The Oxford Investment Group Inc. But his philanthropic efforts span from supporting cancer research to alleviating poverty in the Jewish community.
Q. What brought you to La Jolla?
A. “After 23 years in Detroit, my wife and I came to a wedding in San Diego over Thanksgiving weekend in 2004. We left Michigan in a bitterly cold, gray, blustery snowstorm and arrived in picture-perfect Southern California chamber of commerce weather. After a couple of days, my wife stood on the corner of Prospect Street and Exchange Place in La Jolla and said, ‘This is where we are moving. Make a plan!’ A couple of years later, I founded a bank in La Jolla and we now live two blocks from that fateful corner!”