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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?...

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

Unfortunately, Israel is once again engulfed in violence. As rockets fall on the south and center of the country, the IDF is trying to...

Following the devastating storm that just hit the North East Coast, our thoughts and prayers go out for all those affected by this...

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

The Russian cosmonaut Sergei Adveyev proved Einstein right when he became the first person to travel in time. According to the theory of...

A few months ago, the Jewish Funders Network organized a series of events to discuss the “JDub case,” how as a community we support...

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...

JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's address to the 2012 Jewish Funders Network International Conference is entitled "Networks and the...

Passover is a holidays of journeys. The journey of the Hebrews from Egypt to the Promise Land; the journey from Slavery to Freedom and...