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

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

Published on January 26, 2022 in Sapir Journal Articles John F. Kennedy’s original “moonshot” idea—to land a man on the moon before the...

JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2021 International Conference, delivered online on Wednesday,...

When my son, a high school senior, decided to take a science course that would look good on his college applications, he initially...

(A Message for the National Day of Philanthropy) Anybody who, like me, has ever tried to lose weight – and failed – has experienced some...

“Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem”, says the Talmud, “prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to fools and...

Recently, the Washington Post reviewed the charitable donations of the 50 wealthiest Americans during COVID. What they found was...

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed our Jewish communal infrastructure in grave danger, as Armin Rosen documented here earlier this week. At...

Here's A Better Strategy for Addressing the Crisis In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership...

Scroll down or click here to watch this speech. “These are the times that try men’s souls,” said Thomas Paine. And these times are trying...

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

The word focus comes from the Latin for “fire”. The “focus” was the fireplace in a Roman home.* Fire draws our attention. It’s impossible...

All weekend as I watched the news, I wondered again what I’ve wondered before: why isn’t pain a zero sum game? Why can’t we spread the...

I follow Anshel Pfeffer’s column in Haaretz with assiduity. I usually find his mordant analyses profound and insightful. But I can’t help...

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

Andrés Spokoiny, President & CEO of Jewish Funders Network, addressed the 2017 JFN conference on March 20, 2017. When I was growing up,...

We live in an era that journalist Chris Hayes calls “The Twilight of the Elites.” As a culture we have discovered that our society – in...

The aspen tree, from which that beautiful Colorado town takes its name, is a remarkable plant. An aspen forest is, in fact, one single...

William O. Douglas, the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice, said that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” But as a proverbial...

John F. Kennedy once said that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” JFK probably didn’t know, but his statement was...