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The President's Desk by Andrés Spokoiny
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
'Memento Mori': The Unpleasant Reminder That Makes Us Better People (Yom Kippur 5781) »
Rome’s highest honor for its military leaders was the triumph . It was an extravagant and lavish affair in which the tri...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The Rosh Hashanah-Quantum Connection (Rosh Hashanah 5781) »
According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, the most radical discovery of quantum mechanics is this: Things don’t have concrete...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Seven Questions We Need to Ask in 5781 »
“Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem”, says the Talmud, “prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to f...
Monday, September 14, 2020
Billionaires: It's Time to Give Until It Hurts »
Recently,  the Washington Post reviewed  the charitable donations of the 50 wealthiest Americans during COVI...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
To Confront Cancel Culture on Left and Right, Take a Page from the Talmud (Tisha Be'av 5780) »
The Talmud, the Jewish people’s greatest work of collective genius, is the direct consequence of the destruction of Jerusa...
Friday, July 10, 2020
Are We Ready for the Spiritual Transformation this Plague Will Unleash? »
There’s one critical question many are failing to ask as they scramble to rescue our institutions and shore them up financ...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
What Would Moses Say? Of Nietzsche, Hitler and the Freedom to Hurt Others (Shavuot 5780) »
Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulat...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
On This Covid Yom Ha’atzmaut, Let’s Hit the Reset Button »
Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari W...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
What We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself (Pesach 5780) »
Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged Americ...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Does the Jewish Community Need a Central COVID Fund?Heres A Better Strategy for Addressing theCrisis »
In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership conversations to launch an “emergency ca...
Monday, March 23, 2020
Answering the Call of Coronavirus »
JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2020 Virtual Convening, delivered on March 23, 202...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Of Masks and Plagues (Purim 5780) »
Time has a knack for irony. The last of Chronos’ practical jokes: making us celebrate a holiday in which we disguise ou...
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Drowning Slowly In a Flood of Shortsighted Policies (Tu Bishvat 5780) »
Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah...
Monday, February 3, 2020
Fighting Antisemitism Is Tricky: Here's Some Advice for Funders »
American Jews are anxious. Antisemitism and Judeophobia, which didn’t used to be overriding concerns in the daily lives of...
Friday, December 20, 2019
The Decline and Fall of Every Revolution (Hanukkah 5780) »
22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who...
Thursday, December 19, 2019
What Israel Can Learn from the Hasmoneans »
The Forward , December 19, 2019 . Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Israel is locked in conflict over how to treat...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Before the Next Recession, Philanthropy Needs to Redefine Efficiency »
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) , December 17, 2019. In a crisis, short-term efficiency can be a shoc...
Monday, November 11, 2019
Why Jews Should Defend Liberal Democracy »
Liberal democracy is in danger. From Hungary and Poland to Brazil and Venezuela, democracy is in retreat. Even in solid...
Sunday, October 13, 2019
At Home in the World? (Sukkot 5780) »
Until now, I’ve always felt at home in the world. I have lived in five different countries and visited close to a hundr...
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Wake me up when it's all over. (Yom Kippur 5780) »
Far from shore or any other vessel, the people on a small sailboat found themselves surrounded by sharks, just as somethin...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Only the Mediocre Can Save the World (Rosh Hashanah 5780) »
I’ve seen the creation of the world on live TV. No, I really have; and you probably have too, many times, without reali...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Condensing Our Victimhood (Tisha Be’Av 5779) »
One feels as if there has been a conscious attempt to minimize the days of mourning and sadness in the calendar, packing a...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
In Defense of The Why: Judaism Needs a Mission »
Cross-posted to eJewish Philanthropy. One of the things that make my job at JFN so rich and interesting is the debat...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Power, Influence, and the Limits of Maps: A Response to Yehuda Kurtzer »
Originally published in eJewish Philanthropy . In his article, “‘ The Establishment’ Has No Clothes: The New Jewis...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
How Not to Become a Beer (Shavuot 5779) »
A lost tribe, a brand of beer, the history and future of Jewish resilience, and how Shavuot explains it all. Th...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
“No-Place” Like Home: The Utopia That Came True »
The word utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in 1516. He coined the term combining two Greek words: ou (not) and...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
What Prompts Us to Give? Balancing Head and Heart »
Published in  Sh'ma Now . Ask most people what motivates philanthropy and they’ll probably say, “generosity.”...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The Messenger Who Can't Speak (Pesach 5779) »
Do you think that leaders who are assertive, self-assured, speak clearly, and “call a spade a spade” are better leaders?...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
What All Anti-Semites Have In Common »
In The Jewish Week . On April 16, Alain Soral, a well-known French anti-Semite, was sentenced to one year in pri...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
From Shushan to Sarajevo (Purim 5779) »
A 19-year-old boy was arguably the most influential person in the 20 th century and, most probably, you’ve never heard of...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Looking Past the Flames: Address to JFN 2019 »
The word focus comes from the Latin for “fire”. The “focus” was the fireplace in a Roman home. 1 Fire draws our...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Did Judaism Wreck the Planet? (Tu Bishvat 5779) »
Antisemites think Jews cause everything bad. We’re to blame for capitalism and communism, ethnocentric nationalism and roo...
Monday, December 3, 2018
This You Call a Miracle? »
Question: What did the first three-headed clown juggling live baby goats say to the second three-headed clown juggling li...
Sunday, October 28, 2018
A Tree of Life, and Light for Joy: Philanthropy After Terror »
All weekend as I watched the news, I wondered again what I’ve wondered before: why isn’t pain a zero sum game? Why can’t w...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Tikkun Olam: A Defense and a Critique »
Lately there seems to be a concerted attack on the idea of Tikkun Olam. Critics say Tikkun Olam is not a Jewish idea,...

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