Category Archives: eJewish Philanthropy
Your Daily Phil: Reimagining the sukkah at Yale + Granting survivors’ wishes
Good Monday morning! In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new sukkah design competition being held by Yale University’s Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life and debut a new investigative series on the unsolved murder of a Washington, D.C., rabbi in 1984. We also feature an op-ed by Rabbi Amanda Schwartz. Read more » »
Your Daily Phil: Maimonides Fund launches institute + L.A. gets new foundation exec
Good Friday morning! In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Maimonides Fund’s new in-house institute and profile Rabbi Aaron Lerner. We also feature op-eds from Erica Brown, Dean Bell and Keren Fraiman. We’ll start with a new Anti-Defamation League antisemitism study. Read more » »
Your Daily Phil: Budget crisis at Brooklyn’s Maimonides + 10 years of a synagogue startup
Subscribe now to Your Daily Phil Good Friday morning! In today’s Your Daily Phil, we cover the crisis at Maimonides, a large Brooklyn hospital in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood, and feature a reflection by Rabbi Steven Philp on the growth of Mishkan Chicago. Also included in the newsletter are Daniel Lubetzky, Garry Kasparov, Col. Read more » »
Your Daily Phil: Ukraine at your Seder table + N.C. rabbis link up
Good Friday morning! Ed. note: In celebration of Passover, the next issue of Your Daily Philwill arrive on Monday, April 25. Read more » »
Jews and ‘The Real America:’ How Jewish life transcends migration patterns
It wasn’t until my mid-20s that I realized how profoundly interesting our family’s narrative is. Our family didn’t have any direct connections to the Holocaust, no recent immigration narratives, and despite being Southern California Jews, no stories from Mexico, South Africa or Iran. Read more » »
Your Daily Phil: An Australian-Israeli entrepreneur on ‘breaking the mold’ in philanthropy + JWI’s new domestic violence collective
Good Wednesday morning! About 75% of the families who pulled their children out of public school and enrolled them in Jewish day school due to the COVID-19 pandemic say they want to stay, according to a survey of 24 schools that experienced Read more » »
JWI creates collective to combat domestic violence with $750,000 Schusterman grant
In the early weeks of the pandemic, Amanda Katz, the executive director of the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA) in Rockville, Md., felt isolated and overwhelmed. She was grateful when Jewish Women International (JWI) started offering online forums to connect people doing domestic violence work in the Jewish community. Read more » »
‘Breaking the mold of philanthropy’ – entrepreneur Eitan Neishlos shares his vision
This article first appeared on JewishInsider.com. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia, entrepreneur Eitan Neishlos and the payments provider company he co-founded got to work repurposing their technology in order to help out with the crisis — a Read more » »
Your Daily Phil: Couple who met at BBYO donates $1M for youth group to expand rural reach
Good Wednesday morning! The Maimonides Fund has named Felicia Herman managing editor of the quarterly journal Sapir, as its new chief operating officer, eJewishPhilanthropy has learned. Read more » »
BBYO receives new funding to bring youth group to small Jewish communities
A couple who met through BBYO, the non-denominational Jewish youth group, has made a $1 million donation to the organization to enable it to better reach teens in “small, rural and outlying communities,” Samantha Sisisky, BBYO’s senior director of philanthropic engagement, told eJewishPhilanthropy. Read more » »
