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

Every time you scan your purchases at the grocery store self-checkout line, you’re learning Jewish mysticism. In 1948, the president of a...

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

Friends, I generally use the Jewish holidays to share ideas and insights on Judaism and philanthropy. But this holiday of Yom Haatzmaut,...

Frederick Nietzsche believed that the Egyptians were blond. My apologies; I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the beginning:...

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

What if we are wrong about Purim? What if Purim is not the joyful holiday that we think it is, but a mordant exercise in self-criticism,...

Maybe what Haman wanted wasn’t so bad after all. He yearned for a homogeneous society, one in which people think the same thoughts, obey...

Lake Valencia in Venezuela was once a beautiful place. Nestled among mountains and sierras, and blessed by a humid and temperate climate,...

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...

We’re more affected by architecture than we might want to believe. The built environment conditions our thoughts and behaviors. Every...

In 2007, at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, scientists conducted a troubling experiment. They put people into...

Jewish Funders Network mourns the passing of Shimon Peres z”l, a true giant of the State of Israel, of the Jewish people, and of peace....

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

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

In “Me and Bobby McGee,” the famous blues/rock song popularized by Janis Joplin, the narrator expresses a romantic view of freedom that...

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...

Dear friends, I was working on a message that would express my feelings in relation to Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day. Something...

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

This article was published in Haaretz, Apr 20, 2016. Zionism is one of the most inspiring and justice-oriented movements in human...

Every culture has etiological myths, foundational stories that relate the origins of the people in question. Those stories — which...

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

Purim is a holiday in which we are not afraid to be ridiculous. We don funny costumes; we drink ourselves into oblivion; we are...