Dual Loyalities
How the field of Jewish women's philanthropy has divided into two categories by Deborah Skolnick Einhorn When asked what I study, I often simply answer "Jewish women's philanthropy." By far the most common response to my response is: "Oh, my grandmother was in Hadassah!" Eagerness to make the connection, between a grandmother's membership in the largest Jewish women's Zionist organization in history (Hadassah) and my own work, is a wonderful form of Jewish geography. But, as this essay describes, the field of Jewish women's philanthropy is both bigger and more nuanced than those cocktail party exchanges might reveal. To assess whether something qualifies ...
Silent Role Models No More
They Too are Recognized During Women’s History Month by H. Glenn Rosenkrantz Atlanta: Over at the Marcus Jewish Community Center here, visitors might be forgiven for thinking they’ve walked into some sort of fashion show. There are, after all, dresses hanging on the walls. But upon closer look - and these dresses are getting plenty - it’s more apparent what’s going on. They are one-of-a-kind originals for sure, not in a fashionable way, but in a decidedly personal and historical sense. This is Women’s History Month and in honor of that, the JCC has seen fit to display the latest creations of students of ...
The New News Landscape
A new report from Pew Research on how Americans get news finds the overwhelming majority of the public uses multiple platforms, and that the internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a platform, ranking just behind TV. News is also becoming more of a shared experience. More than 8 in 10 online news consumers get or share links in emails: "In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices. The days of loyalty to a particular news organization on a particular piece of technology in a particular form ...
The Hypocritical Earthquake
The following is brought to us through the courtesy of World ORT. by Chilean writer Rafael Gumucio It is being called the hypocritical earthquake in Chile. A distracted visitor could walk through downtown Santiago and visit the upper and middle class residential areas and barely be able to tell that the Earth shook here last week as few times it has ever done so before in seismological history. Years of preparation, powerful previous earthquakes and undeniable development led Chileans to believe that this catastrophe would practically leave no victims and that the human factor would't be affected at all. Such as many or ...
The Case for Change: A Challenge to the Jewish Agency
by Gil Troy Change is easy to endorse and hard to implement - if it’s easy, it means it’s not being done right. If it’s not systematic, it’s sloppy; if it’s cosmetic, it’s fleeting. Today, new directions must be forged, tough choices must be made, and new ways of doing business must be developed. Let’s be frank, most North American Jews that I know do not know what the Jewish Agency is or does. And a surprising number of Israelis I know say - with anger in their voices - that the Jewish Agency should become extinct like the dinosaur it is. Moreover, ...
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A 21st Century Pushke
Tamar Snyder writing in The Jewish Week: The pushke, or charity box, may well be a relic of the past to many members of the younger generation of Jews. In fact, promotional materials for eCharityBox paint the small tin can as a PC in a world of Macs – not only old school, but also a barrier to giving for those who want to give on the go, with...
Gaining a Positive Marketing Perspective
I guess it is human nature to constantly look for and examine our flaws and shortcomings. What is unfortunate is how much energy we put into analyzing our weaknesses and so little taking note of the things we do that are good and effective. As nonprofit marketers, we spend a good deal of time searching for the right way to communicate information that...
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