Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in eJP in September 2019. It takes on added significance in light of the trend during the Covid-19 pandemic to leave cities and take up residence in suburban neighborhoods. By Rabbi Danny Burkeman [The following article is offered as a partnership between eJP and the Clergy Leadership Incubator program (CLI). CLI is a two-year program … [Read More...] about It’s time for the Suburban Synagogue … Again
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Movement, Year Two
By Jamie Allen Black and Rachel Weinstein Scan the social science literature and you’ll see that movements are defined by successive stages - like emergence and coalescence - and that progress can be measured in any number of ways. We’re not mapping it all that closely. There will be time for that later on and by those more qualified. But our objective - to ignite change by building a mo … [Read More...] about Movement, Year Two
UCLA Launches Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance and other cultural expression, thanks to a $6.75 million gift from […]
Twenty-Nine Percent More Americans Gave on #GivingTuesday in 2020
The GivingTuesday Data Commons estimates that 34.8 million people participated in GivingTuesday 2020, a 29% increase over 2019. Further, GivingTuesday reports total giving increased from $1.97 billion to $2.47 billion in the United States alone, representing a 25% increase compared to GivingTuesday 2019. These totals are in addition to the surge of generosity represented by […]
JNF Boruchin Center seeking LOIs for next funding cycle
JNF’s Boruchin Center is accepting Letters of inquiry (LOIs) from registered 501(c)(3)s through February 15, 2021. The Center will subsequently invite selected organizations to submit full grant applications by May 17, 2021. While LOIs that focus on teens are of particular interest to the Center, applications of a broader nature that connect Americans to the […]
New Jewish Foundation Dedicates Millions to Jewish Social Justice
The Jewish Liberation Fund (JLF) is a new, community-funded Jewish foundation, established to mobilize resources to sustain and grow the Jewish movement for justice and liberation. With more than five million dollars pledged over the next decade, the Jewish Liberation Fund seeks to transform Jewish social justice philanthropy and ensure robust and stable funding for […]
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