from pjewishmisanthropy: Ten Under Ten The Jewish Associated League of Organizations with Programs for Youth (JALOPY) has announced a new project to recognize the contributions of the next generation to Jewish life. The program will bestow awards on “Ten Under Ten”: a group of ten Jews born since 2001 who have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and have already made a tangible contribution to Jewish life. Read the complete story and more on pjewishmisanthropy. … Continue Reading
Shooting for The Maccabeats Pesach Video Under Way
According to a story by Benji Lovitt running in pjewishmisanthropy, The Maccabeats are busy developing their next video project: "On the heels of their national tour and another hit holiday song, The Maccabeats are hotter than ever, and now, everybody’s favorite Jewish acapella band is planning its next move. To their fans who expected more of the same, guess again: the head-covered darlings are back and this time, it’s with an edgier, more urban touch. We won’t have to wait long to get a glimpse of what their future holds with shooting for their Passover video already under way. Titled “Shlep That Ass and Taste These Matza Balls”, the song will feature T-Pain and Missy Elliot and will be helmed by legendary filmmaker John Woo, director of masterpieces such as “Broken Arrow”, … Continue Reading
El Al Hires Mikvah Ladies In Lieu Of Full Body Scanners
The New York Jewish Week is reporting that, “In an effort to both save money on expensive equipment and satisfy their increasingly religious clientele, El Al Israel Airlines announced today that it has hired Mikvah Ladies to serve as security officers to scan all women travelers.” Mordechai Shushan and his friends are back! … Continue Reading
In Honor of All the Donors
Relax, take a break and remember - it's all about our donors! Even if you do not speak Hebrew, you'll still enjoy this 34 second video. … Continue Reading
The Future Lies Ahead
by Mordechai Shushan It’s time to break down barriers. In our richly diverse and vibrant community, we need to cross borders and build bridges, and empower new voices. Celebrating our rich heritage, we must lower barriers to understanding, and in an atmosphere of transparency employ best practices to think out of the box. In that spirit, I want to begin by calling for us all to have a conversation. It may be a new conversation, or it may continue the existing conversation, or it may begin a different conversation about a conversation we’ve been having. They key is to engage in dialogue, so that we can grapple with issues honestly and without preconceptions. And there’s no better way to have a dialogue than to start a conversation. What’s more, if we are serious and committed to … Continue Reading
The Organizational World Responds: A Comedy
A humorous must-read from Gary Rosenblatt in The Jewish Week: Jewish Organizations Respond To Crisis: A Fantasy ITEM: THE SIDE DOOR OF A SMALL SYNAGOGUE IN LARCHMONT, N.Y., WAS DEFACED LAST NIGHT WITH THE WORDS “JEWS GO HOME,” ACCORDING TO LOCAL OFFICIALS. THERE ARE NO SUSPECTS AT PRESENT. How would our Jewish organizations respond to the fictitious but all too common incident described above? Last week’s column explored how our national defense agencies dealt with charges of duplication, wastefulness and competition between and among them - 60 years ago, and today. For the most part, leaders justified the need for the wide, if not dizzying, alphabet soup of organizations, insisting they each have a unique approach and style to bring to the overall cause of support for Israel and Jewish … Continue Reading
The Power of Video
By now, you've probably all heard of “The Great Schlep” and Sarah Silverman's video. In it she urges young Jews to encourage any grandparents who live in Florida to vote for Mr. Obama and to withhold visits to their bubbes and zaides if they don’t comply. For those of you who are still unbelievers, consider this number: more than seven million views in two weeks. Do you still think video has no place in your organization??? source: The New York Times, Message to Your Grandma: Vote Obama … Continue Reading
Birthright Israel Does Rosh Hashonah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhSKW9n13s[/youtube] The presidential candidates for 2008 atone for their sins for the New Year. Happy Rosh Hashanah from Taglit-Birthright Israel! Cartoon by JewishRobot. … Continue Reading
Hey, Yiddle Diddle
This past Thursday night, the PresenTense Institute concluded their 2nd summer fellowship program with a presentation to the community on the extraordinary projects they have been hard at work on these past six weeks. eJewish Philanthropy will be profiling many of them for you over the next two weeks. So today, as we introduce our newest project, Cool People, Cool Stuff (tm), I find no better candidate for our first profile than Hey Yiddle Diddle Productions, one of the coolest initiatives from this summer's PresenTense cohort. For me, this was an easy choice. For as the summer went by, and without exception, every time I walked into the PrersenTense 'home' in Arnona, I was greeted by the cheerful and huge smiling, Chari Pere - the creative mind behind Hey Yiddle Diddle, Old-fashioned Jewish … Continue Reading
Shabot Does Pesach
"Don't Eat The Brown Matzah" for more on this week's comic strip and the cartoon archives visit www.shabot6000.com … Continue Reading
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