Cross-posted at the Times of Israel I n “Me and Bobby McGee,” the famous blues/rock song popularized by Janis Joplin...

The Jewish Week, May 31, 2016. What impact can Russian-speaking Jews have on American Jewish identity?...

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Dear friends, I was working on a message that would express my feelings in relation to Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independen...

W hen medical students in the Middle Ages opened a body and pointed out discrepancies between what they saw in front of th...

Haaretz, Apr 20, 2016 Zionism is one of the most inspiring and justice-oriented movements in human history,...

Cross-posted at The Times of Israel, April 19, 2016 E very culture has etiological myths, foundational stories that...

JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's annual address to the 2016 JFN International Conference was entitled  Empow...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel, March 22, 2016 Purim is a holiday in which we are not afraid to be ridiculous....

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy If I had a penny for every time someone talked to me about creating “the next...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy Sometime in the cretaceous, flowers “discovered” that bees could be an amazing...

The Jewish Week, January 19, 2016 W illiam O. Douglas, the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice, said tha...

The Jewish Journal, December 31, 2015 I made a bet with myself that I could resist using the Star Wars craze as an...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel I n 1972, during Richard Nixon’s visit to China, Premier Zhou Enlai was asked wh...

JFN exprime sa solidarité et son soutien au peuple français dans ces moments tragiques. Nos pensées et nos prières sont av...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy One of the most popular recurrent dreams comes in different variations, but the...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel We don’t like to talk about it much, but one of the main themes of the High Hol...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy It all started with name-calling, demonization, and polarization. It ended in t...

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eJewish Philanthropy, April 17, 2015 John F. Kennedy once said that “leadership and learning are indispensable to ea...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel Well above the Arctic Circle lies Tromso, the northernmost city in Norway. Durin...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel Every time I go back to Argentina my mother makes me feel like a child. She rem...

As somebody who grew up in the Southern Hemisphere, the wintery nature of Chanukah used to elude me. During my childhood,...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel I consider myself to be an incorrigible optimist. I’m an eternal searcher for g...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel Jewish tradition has a lot of paradoxes, but Sukkot is probably the biggest of...

Cross-posted on eJewish Philanthropy  and the Times of Israel Israel never had a victory parade. Even w...

Sometimes we need to spawn many new organizations, and sometimes we need intelligent birth control. eJewish Phila...

The Times of Israel, June 3, 2014 Imagine a country that says “we are going to get rid of all law enforcement agenc...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel. Those of you with young children or grandchildren surely know books like Diar...

Cross-posted at the Times of Israel I played an April Fool’s Day prank on the  Jewish Funders Network  st...

Cross-posted on the Times of Israel The biggest problem when driving in Israel is not that people are reckless, but...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy The biggest fear of an Israeli is not a nuclear Iran; neither is a rain of mis...

The world of philanthropy and social impact is undergoing rapid change.  Notable developments include the rise...

It is easy to admire Edgar Bronfman for his work going back more than four decades to win greater rights for Jews in the S...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy The rabbis of the Talmud didn’t like Chanukah. No, really. They didn’t....