Sandye Rosenbloom Rudnitsky, the first person in the United States to use a gestational surrogate, was honored at the event with the 'Stardust Trailblazer Award'

New annual budget includes increases for land management and education, a highly unusual allocation for the Druze community of southern Syria and — in a rare move for the organization — a decrease in overhead costs

New initiative will focus 'on educating students about extremism, rising hate and antisemitism as a gateway to broader bigotry'

A limited version of the program launched a decade ago, but a national version is seeing a wave of interest, particularly in small cities and rural areas 

'Every year, we give away about 60,000 food baskets for Passover... We already have at least 5,000 more requests than usual — and the phone doesn’t stop ringing'