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The situation we face today will require us to go beyond a legal response into theological, anthropological, and philosophical territory,...

The concept of “learned helplessness,” coined by psychologist Martin Seligman, became the cornerstone of his groundbreaking “positive...

JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2022 International Conference, delivered in Palm Beach, Fla., on...

Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari Weiss noted in a...

American Jews are anxious. Antisemitism and Judeophobia, which didn’t used to be overriding concerns in the daily lives of Jewish...

In a crisis, short-term efficiency can be a shock amplifier. Long-term efficiency comes from building resilient institutions. This...

One of the things that make my job at JFN so rich and interesting is the debates, even arguments, that we have within our staff. I love...

The word utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in 1516. He coined the term combining two Greek words: ou (not) and topos (place), and...

Ask most people what motivates philanthropy and they’ll probably say, “generosity.” But generosity isn’t simple. People give charity for...

On April 16, Alain Soral, a well-known French anti-Semite, was sentenced to one year in prison by a French court for “negationisme”,...

Lately there seems to be a concerted attack on the idea of Tikkun Olam. Critics say Tikkun Olam is not a Jewish idea, but merely liberal...

Much of our communal energy over the last three decades has been aimed at creating platforms, leaving the content pretty much up for...

Intense, lifelong friendships that transcend social and cultural barriers are an Argentinian specialty, like tango, recurrent currency...

In order to succeed as philanthropists, we need to better understand and accept the views of those who are in positions of less relative...

Georg Friedrich Hegel was to modern thought what Plato was to Greek philosophy. Most of the ideological movements of the 19th and 20th...

Many people acquire power precisely by having a great capacity to be empathetic, or, at least, to be well-attuned to the emotional...

All that death and destruction could have been avoided with honest and timely feedback. One of the greatest famines of all time took pace...

At the recent Jewish Funders Network conference, I sat down with two living legends of philanthropy: Harold Grinspoon and Charles...

The first books by Elie Wiesel that I read were not about the Holocaust; they were Spanish translations of his works about the Hasidic...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s collapse, an event that opened a new chapter in world history and in Jewish...

According to cognitive scientist Lera Boroditzky, you and I don’t see the color “baby blue” in the same way. That’s not because we have...

When medical students in the Middle Ages opened a body and pointed out discrepancies between what they saw in front of them and the...