Joy Resmovits
By Joy Resmovits
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News Local Federations Are Hiring Again
The sunny day in March 2009 had begun like all others: Jay Sanderson, head of Jewish Television Network, was driving down Los Angeles’s storied Mulholland Drive in his red Prius. Then he pulled over. Because he had an epiphany. “If you really feel that something is serious, and you have the ability and talent to…
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News Genachowski Defines Net Neutrality
In a meeting yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission, under the leadership of former yeshiva bucher Chairman Julius Genachowski (whose background in Talmud the Forward recently explored), passed a set of rules that allow the government to regulate the Internet. Genachowski crafted his own version of the much-discussed concept of “net neutrality,” the term used to…
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News Israel Advocacy Is a Hot Place for New Hires, Whatever One’s Politics
When Max Berger started college in 2004, he didn’t know whether he would finish. His father, uncle and grandfather all dropped out of school to start businesses. As a child growing up in a small town outside Boston, Berger was taught that “you kind of cheated” if you couldn’t achieve success without a college degree….
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News Jobs That Raise Money Are Among First To Return
If 2010 is a year of economic transition, Jennifer George is riding the wave. George, 31, began this school year filling in for a kindergarten teacher on maternity leave at Adelson Educational Campus, a Las Vegas Jewish community school. But since November 1, she’s been working in the school’s development office. “It’s weird not being…
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News A JCC Lures a Businessman Back Into the Fold
When Barry Finestone began working in the private sector in early 2005 after years of service in Jewish organizations, he thought that he had left the “old country” for good. “When I went out of Jewish work, I didn’t think I would get back in,” he recalled. “I was enjoying being out. I was very…
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News Hella Moritz, 81, a Pillar of the World Jewish Congress for Over 40 Years
Hella Moritz was many things to many people. But even though numerous documents key to Jewish affairs carried her handwritten initials, she insisted on being called a secretary. After more than 40 years of indispensability to four consecutive presidents of the World Jewish Congress, Moritz — a “towering figure,” in the words of current president…
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News Raising Money, Teaching Kids: Jewish Hiring Rebounds Slowly
It was February 2010, and like many jobless Americans, Rabbi Avi Greene found himself in a bind. His digital day school startup venture had only half the funding it needed. He had been laid off from an administrative position at a Los Angeles Jewish day school almost two years earlier. So, with America’s unemployment rate…
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News Introducing Nan Hayworth: Almost the Second Jewish Republican in Congress
Is newly-elected congresswoman Dr. Nan Hayworth Jewish? The question has tripped up and puzzled politicos ever since this Republican/Tea Party ophthalmologist won a suburban New York City seat in Congress. Come January, Hayworth will be representative of New York’s District 19, an area that includes parts of Westchester, Orange and Rockland Counties — and Kiryas…
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