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Remembering to cherish: From Station Eleven to Jerusalem

Rising to the moment

To the Editors: Like all issues of SAPIR, the cancellation issue sparked many thoughts and ideas. All the articles are incredibly...

Liberal democracy is in danger. From Hungary and Poland to Brazil and Venezuela, democracy is in retreat. Even in solid democracies like...

One of the things that make my job at JFN so rich and interesting is the debates, even arguments, that we have within our staff. I love...

In his article, “‘The Establishment’ Has No Clothes: The New Jewish ‘Influence Economy,’” the always brilliant and thoughtful Yehuda...

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...

Lately there seems to be a concerted attack on the idea of Tikkun Olam. Critics say Tikkun Olam is not a Jewish idea, but merely liberal...

A two-part essay for The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 – “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” Part 1: How Zionism challenges the Jewish...

[This essay is part of a series from leaders in the field of Jewish philanthropy, who will offer reactions and analyses to Jack...

“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even...

Much of our communal energy over the last three decades has been aimed at creating platforms, leaving the content pretty much up for...

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

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....

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...

A community that believes in owning rather than sharing cannot seduce those who grew up in an Open Source world. Sometime in the...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...