The massive Jewish social service agency FEGS is shutting down, Crain’s New York Business reported on Friday. The Forward reported December 12 that the agency had discovered it lost $19.4 million in its last fiscal year. FEGS had an annual budget of $252 million, and claimed to aid over a hundred thousand New Yorkers per…
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
Conservative Judaism’s embattled congregational arm has laid off a handful of senior staffers amid its ongoing financial crisis, the Forward has learned. The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism handed out at least four pink slips, just a week after announcing it would sell its Manhattan headquarters. The USCJ confirmed the layoffs. “We recently had a…
The leading rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism will sell development rights at its historic Upper West Side property, and plans to use the proceeds to build a new library and conference center. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is contacting bidders to offer two residence halls and air rights to its main campus, a total…
Under increasing strain following the corruption scandal that brought down its former leader, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty will seek to merge or partner with other not-for-profit agencies to preserve its services, the Forward has learned. The organization said in a statement to the Forward that it was seeking partners, possibly to share administrative…
I don’t recommend fasting on New Year’s Day. Starvation is not the best cure for a hangover. But the Jewish calendar isn’t known for convenience, and this year, the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet — Tzom Asara B’Tevet — happened to land on January 1st. What a joyful way to ring in 2015: revisiting…
1) The number of women in leadership roles is no better now in major national Jewish federations, service and advocacy groups and religious and educational institutions than it was five years ago, when the Forward compiled its first list of executive salaries in communal institutions. There were 11 in 2009; there are 11 today. 2)…
Our annual Salary Survey shows that being a Jewish nonprofit CEO can be pretty darn lucrative. It sure puts to shame the median U.S. salary, which the 2013 Census calculates is $51,939. Type in your income and see how it stacks up against the median salaries of Jewish CEOs of advocacy and public service, federations,…
