By Dan Stone The first entry in Renia Spiegel’s diary is dated January 31, 1939: “Today, my dear Diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship. Who knows how long it will last?” The 14-year-old girl, living with her grandparents in Przemysl (halfway between Cracow and Lwów, Poland), was not to know that on the previous day, Hitler was delivering probably the most famous speech of … [Read More...] about Renia’s Diary: Intimate Memoir of a Young Polish Jew on the Verge of Adulthood as WWII Explodes Around Her
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Embracing What It Means to Be Jewish, and…
By Claire McMahon Fishman As a child, I was a meticulous rule-follower. My parents still tease me about how I refused to even let them read me bedtime stories where the characters misbehaved. So, I was understandably horrified when I found out that I wasn’t “technically” Jewish. With an Irish Catholic mother, under traditional Jewish law, I had no claim to membership in the community I love … [Read More...] about Embracing What It Means to Be Jewish, and…
Natan and the Jewish Book Council announce Fall 2019 Natan Notable Books
Natan and the Jewish Book Council are thrilled to announce two Fall 2019 Natan Notable Books: Susie Linfield’s The Lion’s Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (Yale University Press, 2019) and Bari Weiss’s How to Fight Anti-Semitism (Crown, 2019). Natan Notable Books at the Jewish Book Council is an evolution […]
Comings and Goings:
Judith Belasco to Join Sacred Spaces
Judith Belasco has been named to the new role of Executive Vice President at Sacred Spaces where she will help lead implementation of the organization’s strategic business plan. Judith comes to Sacred Spaces having supported nonprofit organizations as they moved from the start-up phase to become flourishing organizations, most recently as the Executive Vice President […]
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Repair the World Names New CEO
Repair the World has named Cindy Greenberg as the organization’s next president and CEO. Greenberg, who has served as Repair the World’s interim president and CEO since March of 2019, is also the founder of Repair the World New York City. Prior to assuming the role of Repair’s interim president and CEO in March, Greenberg […]
Take an Inside Look at CEO Transitions in Major Jewish Organizations
By Sandy Cardin and Gali Cooks The nonprofit world is in the midst of several simultaneous seismic shifts, three of which are the current massive intergenerational transfer of wealth, the push for gender equality and the large number of impending leadership transitions. C-suite changes are times during which organizations often struggle to find effective ways […]
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