As soon as Thanksgiving heaved its final turkey-filled breath, and the leafless trees were primed for snow, Christmas burst forth in my childhood home. The kitchen smelled of warm sugar cookies. Dozens of holiday cards appeared, almost spontaneously, taking up every spare inch of space that wasn’t already occupied by a white poinsettia. We hung…
A not-for-profit Jewish cemetery in New Jersey has paid $8.5 million in management fees over the past six years to a for-profit cemetery company that controls its board of directors, public records show. The cemetery company, StoneMor Partners L.P., has said in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the fees it makes from…
The Forward’s fourth annual salary survey is a labor of love, sweat and deep journalistic conviction. All the information published is, by law, available to the public, but ferreting it out and verifying it is a time-consuming, often confusing task. Not-for-profit organizations are supposed to file Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service once a…
The Forward’s fourth annual survey of Jewish not-for-profit organizations shows little change in communal leadership or compensation, or in the gender gap that has women still lagging far behind the national trends in salary and representation in the upper echelons of Jewish communal power. The number of women in leadership roles grew slightly, and the…
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner to discuss the major takeaways from the Forward’s annual salary survey of major Jewish organizations. Then, research editor Maia Efrem stops by to explain how the Forward conducts the survey and what the numbers mean. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts…
I always knew I was lucky to be a girl. This, despite being told that I was not. In the ultra-Orthodox world where I grew up, the boys are the exalted ones. Superiority belongs to the men, who learn the holy Torah. Still. I always knew I was lucky to be a girl. We were…
At least 63 synagogues in the New York area suffered damage from Hurricane Sandy, along with several in New Jersey, a Forward investigation reveals. UJA-Federation, which is compiling data on Hurricane Sandy’s impact on Jewish institutions, reports that so far, it has heard from 64 synagogues in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County…
A number of New York synagogues that were seriously damaged by Hurricane Sandy are not only facing mounting repair costs, but also have limited assets available to make the necessary fixes to sustain their congregations. Using lists from federations, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and other local organizations, the Forward surveyed more than 87…
Ralph Lauren Among the Chosen at Opening Night of “My Name Is Asher Lev” “I just saw your makheteyneste, “ I told the designer Ralph Lauren — who was clad in jeans, black turtleneck and a leather jacket — at the opening night of “My Name Is Asher Lev,” presented at New York City’s Westside…
Jailed American contract worker Alan Gross got a little fresh reading material from a recent visitor to his Cuban prison cell — and dished out some Jewish wisdom in return. Peter Kornbluh, a Cuba specialist at the National Security Archives, brought Gross a recent copy of the Sunday New York Times and John Grisham’s new…
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