Too Silent for Too Long It’s time for the Jewish community to take a stand against child sexual abuse. By Joshua Avedon, Dr. Shira Berkovits and Rochel Leah Bernstein-Deitcher For a people that takes pride in creating community-wide systems to preserve tradition and ensure the future, we seem to have a major blind spot when it comes to one threat to our children: sexual abuse. Our children have always been a primary concern for the … [Read more...] about Too Silent for Too Long
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Religious Donors Are Ready To Take Risks, Support Broad-based Causes
Turning upside-down the stereotypical image of religious givers whose primary philanthropic concern is their own faith group, a new report released by Jumpstart reveals that charitable givers with deep connections to faith traditions are less in-group-focused than donors with looser ties. Donors who are the most connected to their faith traditions are not just more likely to give, but do so with a sense of openness, experimentation, and risk … [Read more...] about Religious Donors Are Ready To Take Risks, Support Broad-based Causes
Weaving Connections in the Jewish Innovation Ecosystem
by Barry Camson I find the idea of a Jewish innovation ecosystem to be a fascinating one. I first heard this phrase from Joshua Avedon at Jewish Jumpstart. My sense of an ecosystem is that it is an organic whole within which each aspect has a natural relationship to the others. There is both a quality of what can be emergent in an ecosystem as well as what underlying principles provide coherence in such a system. I never thought of Jewish … [Read more...] about Weaving Connections in the Jewish Innovation Ecosystem
A Panorama of Jewish Venture-Based Organizations, Part 2
by Barry Camson What enables the organizations that create and support Jewish start-up ventures to make a significant contribution to the larger Jewish community? What practices are important for us to be aware of? What helps these organizations be successful? In this article, I will describe with selected illustrations some of the helpful practices that support the creation of entrepreneurial ventures. This follows an earlier article where I … [Read more...] about A Panorama of Jewish Venture-Based Organizations, Part 2
A Panorama of Jewish Venture-Based Organizations
Part 1 by Barry Camson There are a number of exciting organizations that utilize innovative approaches to create and support entrepreneurial start-up ventures in the Jewish world. In a previous post, I made reference to a number of these. These organizations do one or more of the following: Incubate or accelerate the actual ventures Support connections and the sharing of knowledge among people working on start-up ventures Educate … [Read more...] about A Panorama of Jewish Venture-Based Organizations
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