American charities are raising more than they did before the Great Recession, but Jewish federations across the country are floundering, according to a new study published June 14. The annual study, called Giving USA, found that American individuals, foundations, and companies gave $373 billion to charities in 2015, more than ever before in real or…
A retired Jewish businessman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, has given away a parcel of land valued at up to a quarter of a million dollars to an Atlantic City church. James Horowitz, 82, was planning to sell the vacant parcel of land in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, when he was approached by Pastor…
Until early last year, the website of a Brooklyn-based charity called the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation boasted that the organization had its own “biomedical cancer research center” where “leading scientists” were working on cancer treatments. A PowerPoint slide that the group’s founder, Zvi Shor, used in a presentation showed an office building where the research…
One month before one of the largest Jewish charities in the country admitted to donors that it had lost $20 million, the agency’s executive vice president got a $92,000 bonus. The signs of the impending disaster that would soon send FEGS Health & Human Services spiraling into bankruptcy, and leave tens of thousands of its…
Donors to a charity on Manhattan’s Lower East Side are claiming that they have been misled by a Jewish calendar mailed annually to thousands of homes. The calendar, illustrated with images of old bearded rabbis and filled with pleas for donations, is a fundraising appeal that an Orthodox charity called the Home of the Sages…
Attacks on Jewish sites in Denmark and France early this year have set American Jews to worrying: Do U.S. Jews, too, face an increased threat? National Jewish groups have an answer to those worries: a secretive not-for-profit organization called the Secure Community Network. Todd Stettner was skeptical of SCN before 2014. The president and CEO…
Your favorite Jewish charity calls you on the phone. You haven’t renewed your membership, you’re told. What’s your credit card number, again? You might want to think twice before giving it. Jewish charities handed over a huge portion of the money they raised in telemarketing campaigns in New York in 2013 to for-profit telemarketing contractors,…
(Reuters) — The New York Attorney General’s Office has sent letters to the charitable foundation of financier Jeffrey Epstein seeking information on whether it is complying with state registration requirements. Epstein, 62, has been a tabloid sensation since allegations arose in a court proceeding in December that he forced an underage girl to have sex…
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