Matthew E. Berger is the senior adviser for strategic communications at Hillel International.
Matthew E. Berger
By Matthew E. Berger
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Community Hillel Is Proudly Pro LGBTQ
As someone who is actively working to connect my Jewish and gay identities, I know Hillel to be the most welcoming, inclusive place I have ever worked. One of the perks of my job is visiting campuses across the country and seeing how students are embraced at Hillel because of their myriad identities, not despite…
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News In Kennedy Race, Jewish Vote Divided
Massachusetts has the highest percentage of Jews outside the tristate New York area, and its Jewish community is known as one of the most politically active in the country. So, as the state’s Democrats get ready to select their replacement for the late Senator Edward Kennedy, why is the Jewish voice barely heard? “The Jewish…
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News Jewish Groups Take Sides in Honduran Strife
The recent return of Honduras’s ousted and expelled president to his country is not an issue in which the Jewish stakes are clear or obvious. But Jewish groups are nonetheless taking sides over the turmoil roiling the Central American country and over the Obama administration’s stand on developments there. On September 4, two weeks before…
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News Pelosi’s Price is Right for Jewish Community
The front of the room is where the action is: Democratic lawmakers are spouting their pro-Israel credentials and their initiatives for health care reform; the Jewish donors, who came to Washington for intimate meetings just like this one, are eating it up word for word. In the back stands Reva Price, with a ubiquitous smile,…
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News Groups Fear New Security Funding Process
WASHINGTON — Changes in how homeland security dollars are distributed to not-for-profit organizations are likely to put Jewish federations in direct competition with one another for a small pot of funds. After a year with no allocation of funds to not-for-profit sites, the Department of Homeland Security is again gearing up to distribute $25 million…
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News Federations Secure Funding Pledge for Senior Programs
The Jewish community has scored a legislative victory in its effort to develop programs that allow the elderly to live at home while receiving vital services. Congress passed legislation last week to create a new federal grant program for development of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, the brainchild of United Jewish Communities that provides an alternative…
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News Democratic Titans in Maryland Enter Primary Homestretch
WASHINGTON — An influential Jewish lawmaker appears to have the upper hand in Maryland’s Democratic senatorial primary, but liberal observers worry that he could lose African American voters when he runs up against a well-known black Republican in the general election. The Democratic race pits one of Baltimore’s best-known Jewish figures, Rep. Ben Cardin, against…
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