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

JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's annual address to the 2016 JFN International Conference was entitled Empowered Humility: Leveraging...

Let’s declare a moratorium on new Big Ideas and look at the possible Near Ideas that abound in our community. If I had a penny for every...

I made a bet with myself that I could resist using the Star Wars craze as an analogy to write something about the state of the Jewish...

This article was published in eJewish Philanthropy. One of the most popular recurrent dreams comes in different variations, but the core...

Most of the folks fighting BDS have the best intentions at heart, and many are doing great work, but collectively, our impact is limited...

Well above the Arctic Circle lies Tromso, the northernmost city in Norway. During the summer, the sun never sets and in winter it never...

Israel never had a victory parade. Even when military triumphs were outstanding and even miraculous, Israelis knew wars are not something...

Since the release of the Pew Research Center survey on American Jews, the question I’ve been asked most often is what surprises me about...

We sometimes pay lip service to failure but our actual tolerance for risk and failure in the Jewish community is limited. We don’t...

What can we do as philanthropists amid the horror of this recent tragedy? Can any parent be relieved? Can any mourner be comforted?...

Until the JFNA General Assembly, earlier this month in Baltimore, I didn’t know that the famous Exodus ship, the one that brought the...

For most Argentineans my generation, the name "Pitman Academies" produces a sort of nostalgic smile: a bizarre reminder of a bygone era....

Friday, I wrote a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by millions of years of evolution to hate failure. But our DNA...

Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest in evolutionary theory. I read a few books...