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I consider myself to be an incorrigible optimist. I’m an eternal searcher for glasses half full and silver linings. Yet, there was a day...

Jewish tradition has a lot of paradoxes, but Sukkot is probably the biggest of them all. Yom Kippur probably hired PR consultants to make...

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

Sometimes we need to spawn many new organizations, and sometimes we need intelligent birth control. [This essay is from “Philanthropic...

Imagine a country that says “we are going to get rid of all law enforcement agencies.” There will be no police, no army, and no coercion...

Those of you with young children or grandchildren surely know books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate. My kids love them and I’ve...

I played an April Fool’s Day prank on the Jewish Funders Network staff last week. I told them a major funder wanted to have Pluto...

The biggest problem when driving in Israel is not that people are reckless, but that they don’t want to be “frayerim.” As in, “I’m not...

The biggest fear of an Israeli is not a nuclear Iran; neither is a rain of missiles from Hamas or Hezbollah. It’s definitely not the...

Listen or read transcript The world of philanthropy and social impact is undergoing rapid change. Notable developments include the rise...

It is easy to admire Edgar Bronfman for his work going back more than four decades to win greater rights for Jews in the Soviet Union,...

The rabbis of the Talmud didn’t like Chanukah. No, really. They didn’t. But they had good reasons. Many of them had survived the...

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...

I’m happy to introduce a series of articles about interactions between local and national funders. This series continues a conversation...

Israel, a country of fewer than 8 million people has 45,000 registered nonprofit organizations. This ratio, one of the highest...

For centuries, doctors had all sorts of assumptions about human anatomy. For example, it was believed that men had fewer ribs than women,...

When I lived in Europe I used to run seminars for Community Leaders. The venue was a beautiful 14th century palazzo in Venice, near the...

The problem is that the Jewish Community hasn’t yet fully internalized the need for a new leadership paradigm that places networking and...

Foundations and organizations must not treat Jewish next-gen donors as if they are the same as their parents and grandparents. Imagine...

A couple of years ago, my sons, among other first graders, participated in something called chagigat hasefer, the celebration of the...

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

A new Decalogue of effective Jewish philanthropy. Recent decades have seen incredible growth in independent philanthropy. In the past 10...

In the last couple of decades, a tectonic shift has altered the landscape of Jewish philanthropy. The phenomenon is not only Jewish – the...

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