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by Ariel Kahn In its gorgeous new Suffolk location, this year’s Limmud Fest was blessed with some sunshine and an extraordinary degree of good cheer. Marketed as “the hottest festival in the British Jewish calendar”, the volunteer-run residential festival attracted a record 650 participants for four days of non-stop Jewish learning and culture. The sunny rolling hills of the South Downs were home to over 150 sessions of learning, the majority of which took place outdoors - a true celebration of Judaism without walls and a chance to embrace the Hebrew month of Ellul in the tradition of reflection and learning ...
After Katrina, Creating Community All Over Again
The New Orleans Jewish Day School Reemerges From Disaster by H. Glenn Rosenkrantz Metairie, LA - Kindergarten classroom, destroyed. Administrative offices, gone. First and second grade facilities, upended. Materials and resources, washed away or damaged. And that was just on the first floor. Hurricane Katrina’s rage and the resulting floodwaters five years ago this week spared precious little, and the New Orleans Jewish Day School - situated here on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain just west of the city - was no exception. “The storm demolished us,” said Dr. Bob Berk, head of school. “The school was wiped out.” Nearly 100 students, ...
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by Shilpi Shah Nonprofits are not alone in their struggles through the recent recession and its aftermath. Their funders - including foundations, corporations, individual donors and the government - have had challenges as well, facing increased demand from grantees, with a declining pool of funds. As a result, it becomes even more critical for nonprofits to make the case for funding. Nonprofits need to effectively tell their story, connecting mission, capacity and capital. Not only should they communicate programmatic outcomes, but also specific financial challenges, needs and opportunities that are linked to both individual programs and the organization as a whole. Nonprofits are adept at ...
Poverty: A Key to Israel’s Economic Future
Making Israel Work an editorial from The Forward Ephraim Guttman illustrates both the face of poverty in Israel and a solution. Dressed in the uniform of the ultra-Orthodox - the requisite black suit and white shirt, which makes no concession to the scorching summer heat - he does not appear destitute in the classic sense. But like most men in his community, he was utterly unprepared for the modern workplace when he married two years ago at 18, with only a rudimentary education beyond the religious curriculum of a Jerusalem yeshiva. While Israel is eagerly joining the elite club of developed nations, and ...
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Vibrant Jewish Campus Life Benefits the Entire Community
by Rabbi Hershey Novack This article articulates to the St. Louis Jewish community that their support of local Jewish campus life benefits the entire St. Louis community. More broadly, these themes resonate in similar communities throughout the country. A version of this article first appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light. In 2008, Jewish Living magazine...
Limmud Fest: Expanding Jewish Horizons Under The Stars
by Ariel Kahn In its gorgeous new Suffolk location, this year’s Limmud Fest was blessed with some sunshine and an extraordinary degree of good cheer. Marketed as “the hottest festival in the British Jewish calendar”, the volunteer-run residential festival attracted a record 650 participants for four days of non-stop Jewish learning and culture....
After Katrina, Creating Community All Over Again
The New Orleans Jewish Day School Reemerges From Disaster by H. Glenn Rosenkrantz Metairie, LA – Kindergarten classroom, destroyed. Administrative offices, gone. First and second grade facilities, upended. Materials and resources, washed away or damaged. And that was just on the first floor. Hurricane Katrina’s rage and the resulting floodwaters...
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