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Culture The ‘poet laureate of Southern Jewry’ has died. Here’s how I remember him.
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News Boston federation hired private investigator to look into critics
CJP official acknowledges seeking information about lawyer and employees who criticized group
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A top official of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is resigning three months after complaints that he bullied employees appeared in a Forward article about financial and other struggles at the federation. In an email obtained by the Forward, Chief Operating Officer Steven Rosenberg wrote to federation staff last week that he will step…
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News Fidelity targeted over donations to group funding Israeli settlements
Two progressive Jewish groups have joined a coalition calling on financial giant Fidelity to stop facilitating donations to right-wing organizations, including one that bankrolls Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. [email protected] must disclose their role in enabling anti-Palestinian violence globally. Millions are flowing from Fidelity and into orgs like Central Fund of Israel, a…
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News Sheldon Adelson leaves behind a Jewish philanthropic empire. What’s next?
Love him or hate him, Sheldon Adelson’s impact on the Jewish nonprofit world cannot be overstated. Adelson, the casino magnate who died Tuesday at 87 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is best known as the top political contributor in the country, donating more than $218 million to Republican campaigns in the 2020 election cycle alone. But he…
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News New Israel Fund Courts Liberals Vexed By Federations’ Philanthropic Veto Power
After philanthropists protested Jewish federations’ denial of their desire to donate money to a group critical of Israel, the New Israel Fund is creating a new pipeline for philanthropists to support it and other progressive groups, the Forward has learned. An American charity whose mission is to direct funding to liberal groups that push for…
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Oct 2, 2022
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A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.