PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) — It’s a cool spring night, and Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan are battling their way out of the west lawn of the sprawling bay-side mansion of Jane Goldman and Benjamin Lewis. Manning, the chairwoman of the Jewish Federations of North America, and Kaplan, the chairman of the board of governors… More ▸
Representatives of the Jewish Agency, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America met Monday at the New York offices of the JFNA in an attempt to solve their continuing struggle over how much each of the two overseas organizations should take home from the federations’ annual campaigns. The JDC… More ▸
UPDATE: This version has been updated to correct several inaccuracies that appeared in the May 14 newsletter. The UJA-Federation of New York is expecting that campaign revenue in fiscal year 2009-10 will drop slightly, but that the country’s largest Jewish federation and local charity will be able to keep intact nearly all of its local… More ▸
Shortly after the Jewish Federations of North America started its What’s Your #Ish campaign, some commentors in the blogosphere pointed out that the federations might have a problem. The campaign asks Jews aged 19 to 36, to express what makes them Jew-“ish” via Twitter, Facebook or YouTube in an attempt to raise their awareness about… More ▸
The Jewish Federations of North America wants to know "what’s your ish?" — as in, what makes you Jewish? The Jewish federation system will launch a significant advertising and marketing campaign next week aimed at young Jews that asks them to use social networking tools to share what makes their inner Jew tick. The idea… More ▸
The country’s largest Jewish charitable network and the leaders of three major non-Orthodox synagogue movements are strongly protesting a proposed change in the laws that dictate the process for conversion to Judaism in Israel. The proposed bill, which would on the one hand make it ostensibly easier for immigrants living in Israel to convert to… More ▸
In his column in this week’s New York Jewish Week, Gary Rosenblatt weighs in on the recent stress between the Jewish Federations of North America and the two overseas partners of the Jewish federation system, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel. The background: The two overseas partners are perturbed by the declining dollars… More ▸
Joe Kanfer has been something of an invisible man in the Jewish federation scene since his term as chairman of the Jewish Federations of North America ended in November. He has not been attending board meetings regularly, and aside from a few cameo appearances at the General Assembly in Washington, when he handed over the… More ▸
There’s something about Jerry: Though he hates the description, Jerry Silverman seems to be a rock star no matter where he goes these days in the Jewish philanthropic world — and it was no different at the Jewish Funders Network conference. Silverman is no stranger to the conference, having attended in years past as the… More ▸
Several officials of the Jewish Federations of North America are now in Israel meeting with Knesset members to discuss potential changes to the country’s laws about conversion to Judaism. Some versions of a proposed bill being circulated include a provision that could, in theory, prevent a convert to Judaism, who underwent conversion in Israel or in… More ▸
