Category: Jewish Philanthropy
Young Innovators from 12 Countries Receive Support
The Center for Leadership Initiatives announced that 35 young Jewish innovators would receive seed funding for their projects to support the realization of innovative Jewish ideas worldwide. The funds, alongside general support of the overall ROI program, were provided by philanthropist Lynn Shusterman.
Selected projects range from web initiatives to music, art and film, and from community activism and education to environmental projects. Grant recipients are in their twenties or early thirties, and hail from Europe, South America, North America, the FSU, South Africa, and Israel.
According to Yonaton Gordis, Executive Director of the Center for Leadership Initiatives, "The ROI Grants were created to serve as seed funds that will enable ROI ...
Yad Vashem Launches YouTube Channels
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust remembrance and education center in Jerusalem, has launched two YouTube channels in advance of today's Holocaust Remembrance Day. The channels, in English and Arabic, went live Tuesday. The English channel contains testimonies from Holocaust survivors, including archival footage, historians’ lectures on key issues related to the Holocaust, footage from visits to Yad Vashem, including those of President George W. Bush in January 2008, and Pope John Paul II in March 2000, as well as human interest stories, such as family reunions.
The Arabic channel has testimonies and archival footage about the Holocaust, with Arabic subtitles.
“We know that YouTube is one of the most popular websites today. This ...
Chol HaMoed in Review
Gossip Influences Generosity
Major Israeli Philanthropist Speaks Out
A New Capacity Building Grant for Birthright
Remember the Olim
Where’s Waldo (aka Yossi)?
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Tearing Down The Silos
We have all seen stories of how media exposure has helped facilitate change. Certainly the downfall of New York's last governor was accelerated by a New York Times article.
But what about the blog-o-sphere. And particularly in our Jewish world, what place do blogs play and what place (in an ideal world) should they play.
The blog world has been instrumental in bringing into the open the apparent on-going strife at the UJC. Whether it is from anonymous bloggers at Disunited Jewish Communities or a long established communal leader and critic like Richard Wexler blogging with particular insight at UJ Thee and Me, blogs have made a visible impact. The former even bearing mention in a recent ...
