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Your Daily Phil: Mixed bag for U.S. Jews as Democrats sweep midterms
The post Your Daily Phil: Mixed bag for U.S. Jews as Democrats sweep midterms appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy .
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Philanthropy’s missing line item: A way back after honest failure
During Shmitah, the sabbatical year that takes place every seven years, Deuteronomy 15 calls for the remission of debts among fellow Israelites. The text anticipates a difficult consequence: As the year of release approaches, lenders may become reluctant to lend to those in…
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JNF-USA rakes in $192M as CEO Robinson bets against ‘oy vey’ fundraising
Bucking a big-giver trend, National Fund-USA raised $192 million in fiscal year 2026, which ended Sept. 30 — much of it from a growing number of smaller donors — pushing its three-year total past $700 million as the organizations post-Oct. 7 momentum continues. The fundraising…
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‘A time to laugh, a time to weep’: Midterms offer U.S. Jews a mixed bag
As Democrats routed the GOP in yesterday’s midterm election, giving them control of both the House and the Senate —along with the governorships of several large states — the American Jewish community will have cause to celebrate and cause for concern in the years to come. An NBC…
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A disproportionate presence: Project Prism and the case for funding early childhood Jewish education
Ask most Jewish communal leaders to name the highest-leverage investment in the Jewish future, and they will point to teen trips, campus fellowships or young adult engagement. But what happens before any of that? Early childhood Jewish education (ECJE), what many still call…
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Your Daily Phil: Donors brace for momentous midterms
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Birthright courts global donors at Tel Aviv summit, as some speakers court controversy
TEL AVIV —It felt more like a ritzy international conference befitting an Israeli media conglomerate than a Jewish engagement nonprofit — and that was exactly the point. The small talk at the Hilton Tel Avivs coffee stations on Monday morning hopped from French to Spanish to…
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For Jewish funders, a sense of ‘political homelessness’ heading into consequential midterm elections
As American Jews head to the polls today in the countrys midterm election, many in the traditionally liberal-leaning community will be feeling a sense of political homelessness. Historically liberal Jews are increasingly finding themselves at odds with the Democratic Party on…
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The American Psychological Association abandons its own science
Last week, the House Education and Workforce Committee released a report detailing allegations of antisemitism within the American Psychological Association, the nations largest professional organization of psychologists. The report documents troubling conduct within the APA,…
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Your Daily Phil: Will JFNA’s new $35M initiative curb antisemitism? Experts are wary
The post Your Daily Phil: Will JFNA’s new $35M initiative curb antisemitism? Experts are wary appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy .
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Finding our way home: Creating sacred community in an age of spiritual hunger
Once a month, I have the rare privilege of leading the Shabbat morning service of my dreams. Every month, 40 or so of us gather in a large circle in our sunny but intimate sanctuary at Darchei Noam, an independent, post-denominational congregation in Ambler, Pa. Some wear…
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As JFNA pushes $35M into fighting antisemitism, experts worry it’s doubling down on failing tactics
In February, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens called for the Jewish community to dismantle the Anti-Defamation League and funnel the tens of millions of dollars invested into fighting antisemitism initiatives into funding Jewish education and identity-building. It was a…
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Before I could stand up for the Jewish People, I needed to know where I stood
By the time many people learned my name, they were seeing the hardest chapter of my college experience: They saw a Jewish student body president at the University of California, Santa Barbara, facing hostility after Oct. 7, 2023 — the signs, the public targeting and the effort…
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Elie Wiesel never asked us to choose
There is a question I hear as the executive director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation. It arrives most often in any of a dozen different polite disguises, but underneath it is always the same question. Why is a Jewish nonprofit working on the Rohingya genocide? Sometimes the…
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Your Daily Phil: Inside Edward Khalily’s major gift to fight pediatric cancer
The post Your Daily Phil: Inside Edward Khalily’s major gift to fight pediatric cancer appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy .
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Chemical supplier Edward Khalily makes ‘landmark’ gift to Sheba hospital for pediatric oncology
Edward Khalily, chair of the Great Neck, N.Y.-based Wego Chemical Mineral Corp., is making a “landmark” eight-figure donation to Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv to create an eponymous pediatric oncology building that is meant to both improve and expand cancer care for…
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Israeli president hails JFNA post-Oct. 7 loan fund as highest form of giving
On Maimonides’ famed eight-tiered ranking of charity, the highest level is taking action to prevent someone from needing to ask for charity. “The highest level beyond which there is none is a person who supports a Jew who has fallen into poverty [by] giving him a present or a…
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Investing in the good people who build resilience
As leaders in the Jewish community, we know firsthand the importance of resilience. We are deeply inspired by individuals who continue to adapt, rebuild and keep moving forward when the rubber hits the road. But resilience is not something leaders build all on our own. We view…
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Americans know antisemitism is rising — they just don’t always recognize it
Antisemitism has a peculiar ability to be condemned in principle and excused in practice. That is the paradox at the heart of American attitudes toward Jews in our latest national survey at Boundless. Three years after the Oct. 7 attacks, we found that 64% of Americans say…
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Your Daily Phil: Israel trips see less-than-expected boost after Iran wars
The post Your Daily Phil: Israel trips see less-than-expected boost after Iran wars appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy .