Richard Pratt, who fled Poland as a child on the eve of Holocaust and went on to become one of Australia’s richest men and biggest Jewish philanthropists, died Tuesday at age 74.
Some stories I found interesting: Leonore Annenberg, the matriarch of the country’s largest foundation of Jewish origins, died at 91. Eli Broad spoke at the 92 Street Y about philanthropy and the future of newspapers as philanthropic enterprises. Check out the video here. Check out this Chronicle of Philanthropy podcast on social media and philanthropy […]
After more than a half-century, veteran Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff penned his final missive this week for the indie weekly which dumped him on New Year’s Eve. Hentoff, 83, who is known as a fierce civil libertarian as well as a noted jazz critic, was — given his general political disposition — remarkably even-handed […]
