The TEN: Together Ending Need Advisory Board was launched in February 2024 and is comprised of dedicated funders, human services practitioners, leading researchers, and experienced communal professionals. Collectively, this group will inform, guide and steward the work of TEN in its aim to raise awareness, funds, and action to support economically vulnerable Jews. TEN, established in 2019, is an initiative of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and JFN. 

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Advisory Board Members

Adina Poupko, Executive Director, Natan Fund

Tikvah Womack, Licensed Clinical Counselor and Therapist, Jewish Community Services

Shira Hutt, Executive Vice President of JFNA

Sara Sherizen, Portfolio Director, US Programs at the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

Sara Fertman, Executive Director of the Jeffrey H. and Shari L. Aronson Family Foundation

Reuben Rotman, CEO of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life

Mordy Walfish, COO Leading Edge, Chair Emeritus JQY

Les Robbins, Associate VP Investments Wells Fargo, Chair of JCSF Philadelphia

Jacob Rosenblum, Director of Jewish Community Grants and Partnerships

Jessica Chait, Chief Impact Officer, RSL Management Corp

Jeff Schoenfeld, Partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, UJA Board Chair Emeritus

Dr. Ilana Horwitz, Sociologist, Researcher, Professor, Tulane University

Dr. Hannah Lebovits, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs UT Arlington

Professional Staff:

Rachel Sumekh, TEN: Together Ending Need, CEO of RNS Impact

Jon Hornstein, Program Director, Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation

Rabbi Rebecca W. Sirbu, Executive Vice President, Jewish Funders Network

Sara Sherizen 

Sara manages a portfolio of U.S.-based grants in the areas of college access and success. She identifies and collaborates with organizations that increase the number of low-income students who graduate from high school college-ready, enroll in college and/or graduate from college with a bachelor’s degree.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 2017, Sara spent more than a decade working in programs and grantmaking at several non-profits and foundations, including the Robin Hood Foundation, Schusterman Family Foundation, Notley Fund and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Sara got her career start working in business management consulting at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, formerly Public Strategies, Inc. Sara holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Emory University.

Jacob Rosenblum

As Rose Community Foundation’s director of Jewish community grants and partnerships, Jacob Rosenblum sources opportunities, develops partnerships and manages grantmaking portfolios and relationships to create positive and measurable impact in the Greater Denver’s Jewish communities. Jacob previously served as an Associate Director at Arabella Advisors managing a portfolio of nonprofit projects to ensure they have the back-office infrastructure necessary to meet their programmatic goals. Prior to joining Arabella, Jacob was a family engagement analyst at Crown Family Philanthropies, where he provided next-generation philanthropic education and managed grantmaking portfolios focused on gun violence prevention, environmental justice and disaster resilience. Jacob also worked at the University of Chicago Urban Labs, performing policy research and program evaluation on housing and homelessness. He holds a BS in Social Policy and Statistics from Northwestern University, a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois Chicago and is currently pursuing a Leadership Certificate in Combating Antisemitism at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership.

Wendy Platt Newberger

Wendy is the Director of Jewish Life and Israel Giving at Crown Family Philanthropies. She joined in 2019 with a broad range of experiences as a Jewish communal professional and lay leader as well as years of experience in the private sector. Prior to joining CFP, Wendy served as the COO of JCFS Chicago and the Director of Early Childhood Services for JCC Chicago. Wendy has served on several Jewish communal boards locally and nationally including the founding Board of Chicago Jewish Day School, the JUF Board, and Young Leadership Cabinet. Before becoming a Jewish communal professional, Wendy was a marketing manager in the private sector including several years with Kraft General Foods. Wendy received her MBA from the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Wendy and her husband live in Chicago, the homebase for them and their four children.

Tikvah Womack

Tikvah (Nadia) Womack is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and an Expressive Arts Therapist, specializing in trauma and cultural sensitivity. Utilizing arts and with a 20-year span of experience in the mental health field her clinical experience expands over mental health clinical and community settings ranging in modalities and population. She develops, facilitates, and consults groups across the developmental spectrum, professional trainings, and community and affinity conversations.

During Tikvah’s graduate studies at Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Tikvah works full-time at an outpatient community agency in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, she is currently serving as the JOC-Allies Project Coordinator at Dimensions. She has been involved since the first JOC-Allies Cohort in 2016 as a cohort member, as well as a member of the first JWOC Cohort.

Tikvah and her family are deeply involved and rooted in their local community. She is a part of a vibrant Jewish community and a board member of a diverse and growing modern orthodox synagogue. She is also an active member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority. With all of this, Tikvah spends most of her time generously loving on her husband, young boys, and Kerry Blue Terrier. In addition to her love and devotion to family, identity, work, and community, Tikvah enjoys dancing, music, roller skating, and Valerie Wilson Wesley novels.

Shira Hutt

Shira serves as the Executive Vice President of the Jewish Federations of North America, where she provides leadership over the organization’s core strategies and operations aimed at broadening the impact of the Federation system on the Jewish community in North America and around the world. Shira previously served as the Chief Advancement Officer at Hillel International, Vice President of Institutional Giving and Strategic Partnerships at the Birthright Israel Foundation, and spent nearly ten years as the Senior Program Officer at the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life where she worked to support and build key initiatives across the Jewish community, including the Areivim Philanthropic Group. Shira started her career as a Bittker Fellow at Hillel International, was a recipient of a Professional Leaders Project Academic Fellow, and is currently a Wexner Field Fellowship. Shira earned her BA in history from the University of Massachusetts and holds an MPA from New York University’s Robert Wagner School of Public Service. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband, Jonathan, and children, Talia & Kobi.

Sara Allen is an all-in team builder with a focus on collaboration and collective impact, who leads with resourcefulness and an entrepreneurial spirit. She draws on more than two decades in public relations representing global brands such as cutting-edge platforms Skype and Viber, and in the Jewish innovation space. Recognized as an impassioned advocate and driving force behind identifying and implementing breakthrough strategies and models, Sara currently serves as Associate Vice President of Community & Jewish Life at Jewish Federations of North America, where she developed the BeWell national youth well-being initiative, and a proprietary methodology which helps social impact ventures scale their impact. As the Executive Director of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative, a philanthropic experiment to create, nurture, scale and sustain contemporary approaches to meaningful Jewish teen engagement and growth, she contributed to culture change in the youth-serving field. Sara has dedicated her career to weaving nurturing networks based on trust, transparency and knowledge-sharing.

Sara J. Fertman

Sara is the Executive Director of the Jeffrey H. and Shari L. Aronson Family Foundation.  As the Foundation’s first professional hire in 2016, Sara has overseen all aspects of the Foundation’s strategy, grantmaking, and operations, working in close partnership with the family to execute their philanthropic vision.  Sara has worked in the field of philanthropy in New York City for almost 20 years, with experience both in private foundations and advising high net worth individuals and families in private bank settings.  Over the years, Sara has helped organizations address pressing issues in education, workforce development, Jewish life, human services, and health, among others.  Sara earned her M.P.A. in nonprofit management and public policy with an international specialization from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU and a B.A. in sociology with honors from Boston College.  Sara currently resides in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.

Rella Kaplowitz

Rella Kaplowitz is a Director of Jewish Grantmaking at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. Rella helps to make sure the organization has the right information to gain insights to inform its work and supports grantees and partners in enhancing their capacities for data, metrics, strategy, learning and evaluation. Rella is the co-author of the Schusterman Family Philanthropies’ More Than Numbers guide, a publication to help organizations on their journey toward equitable and inclusive demographic data collection.

In a volunteer capacity, Rella is deeply engaged in suicide prevention in the Jewish community and suicide loss support in the greater DC area as a peer support counselor. Rella lives in Potomac, Maryland with her partner and two children, and is an avid reader and paper cut artist in her spare time.

Reuben Rotman

Reuben D. Rotman is the founding President and CEO of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies. Established in 2017, The Network serves as the leading voice for the Jewish Human services sector. Supporting its 150+ member organizations, the Network’s goal is to strengthen the capacities of its member agencies and to advance the scope and impact of the Jewish human service sector.

Reuben came to the Network having served as the CEO of Jewish Family Service of MetroWest New Jersey, where he held several increasingly responsible positions for 21 years.  Previously, Reuben held positions with UJA Federation of New York, Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

Reuben currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of SourceAmerica, which connects the non-profit sector to the US Federal government and commercial sectors to secure employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, Reuben also serves as Founding Chair of the Advisory Council for Ta’amod.

Reuben earned a double MA; in the Management of Human Services and in Jewish Communal Service. Reuben also earned his BA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and in Sociology.

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs made history as the first openly lesbian rabbi admitted and ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement’s flagship institution.

Named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis,” by The Forward in 2014, Isaacs was invited to offer the final Hanukkah benediction of the Obama administration in 2016.

Isaacs serves as the spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine and is the inaugural holder of the Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond Chair in Jewish Studies at Colby College. She is also founder and Executive Director of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College, a groundbreaking institution committed to supporting small town and rural Jewish communities.

Isaacs was born and raised in central New Jersey and graduated from Wellesley College. She lives in a 150 year old turquoise and lavender house in Waterville, ME with her wife, Melanie, and their daughters, Nitzan and Hadas.

Mordy Walfish

Mordy Walfish is COO of Leading Edge, an organization dedicated to strengthening how Jewish organizations attract, develop, and retain top talent. As Employee #3 of the organization, he has partnered with the CEO since 2017 to build Leading Edge into the organization it is today. Prior to joining Leading Edge, Mordy was Vice President for Programs at Repair the World. He is a Wexner Graduate Fellow, Schusterman Senior Fellow, and the winner of the 2015 JPro Network Young Professional Award. He is the former board chair of JQY and also serves on the board of Dimensions Educational Consulting. Mordy is a certified leadership coach and teaches classes in strategic management at the Spertus Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Charles (Les) Robbins

With over 20 years of experience as a wealth manager, Charles provides independent, objective, and comprehensive wealth management services aligned with his clients’ ever-evolving goals.

Before embarking on his career in financial services, Charles functioned as a business owner and consultant in both domestic and international markets. He focused on developing, analyzing, and elucidating the economic costs, competitive impacts, and risks associated with business decisions. The same analytical skills, educational background, and risk assessment methodologies are now applied to his work with clients.

Committed to enhancing the well-being of others, Charles services as the Chair on the Board of Directors & Trustees of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Greater Philadelphia. Additionally, Charles is a member of US SIF (The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment), the Urban League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Estate Planning Council, the Financial Planning Association, and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Charles earned an MBA in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Temple University. He also holds the designation of Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist℠ (CRPS®).

Residing in Center City Philadelphia with his wife, Charles is situated near his four children and three grandchildren. In their leisure time, he and his wife enjoy activities such as golfing, dining out, exercising, and traveling.

Kathy Reich

Kathy Reich leads the foundation’s BUILD initiative both in the United States and in our 10 global regions. BUILD is an essential part of the foundation’s strategy to reduce inequality, a strategy arising from the conviction that healthy civil society organizations are essential to driving and sustaining just, inclusive societies. To that end, Kathy guides Ford’s efforts to implement sector-leading approaches to supporting the vitality and effectiveness of institutions and networks that serve as pillars of broader social movements.

Before joining Ford in 2016, Kathy was director of organizational effectiveness and philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she led a cross-cutting program to help grantees around the world strengthen their strategy, leadership and impact. Previously she had served at the Packard Foundation as policy analyst and program officer. Prior to that, she was policy director at the Social Policy Action Network, served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill, and worked for state and local elected officials in California.

Kathy currently serves on the boards of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Peninsula Jewish Community Center and as Vice Chair of the board of Repair the World.. She was selected as a Schusterman Fellow in 2016. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.

Jessica Chait

Jessica has managed Met Council’s Food Network since 2018, bringing greater visibility to food insecurity within the Jewish community. Under Jessica’s leadership, the food program has dramatically scaled its operation, which has served 200,000 clients a month (up from 52,000 when she began). It is the largest free kosher food distribution program in the world. She has also piloted and successfully expanded innovative programmatic and strategic initiatives aimed at increasing access to culturally appropriate emergency food. These include a program to support nascent pantries serving halal-observant New Yorkers; a groundbreaking integrated online ordering and warehouse management system, “Market by Met Council;” and a mobile pantry that brings food to underserved neighborhoods.

Jessica also leads Met Council’s advocacy and policy efforts to improve food access for households with halal and kosher dietary needs. This work includes building a national coalition of partners, conducting research, authoring reports, and advancing legislative, budgetary, and administrative solutions that will lead to a more equitable emergency feeding system. Prior to joining Met Council, Jessica worked for UJA-Federation of New York in various roles of increasing responsibility, culminating as Chief of Staff. Jessica is passionate about helping the vulnerable, and prior to her move to New York, she worked for non-profits in Poland and Zambia. Jessica grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and holds a B.A. in Psychology from University of Texas and a master’s degree in Public Administration from New York University.

Jeff Schoenfeld

As Partner and Head of Global Institutional Business Development and Relationship Management, Jeff leads the firm’s Institutional Investment Management client activities on a global basis for a range of products/services. He joined BBH in 1984, was named a Partner of the firm in 1996.

Jeff is the Past President of UJA-Federation of New York, the largest local philanthropy in the world. Preceding his role as President, Jeff was the Co-Chair of UJA's Annual Campaign and the Chair of UJA’s Caring Commission, overseeing human service and community building programs in New York, and 70 countries around the world. Today, he chairs UJA’s Allocation Steering Committee, is a member of its Executive Committee, Finance Committee and Board of Directors. Jeff currently serves as Chair of the Israel and Overseas Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America, helping to strategically guide global allocations for JFNA. In this capacity, Jeff is on the Board of Governors of The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Jeff is a member of the Board of Directors of The Jewish Funders Network and Board of Directors of amfAR, a leading cure-focused global HIV/AIDS research organization. Jeff serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the NPR Foundation and also serves as a member of the Graduate Executive Board at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff received his B.A. in Economics from the UC Berkeley, and his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ilana Horwitz PhD

Ilana is a sociologist of contemporary Jewish life In her research, she analyzes how religious background, social class, gender, race, and ethnicity influence individuals across their lifespans. Her work has illuminated the under-discussed topic of class dynamics within American Jewish communities, where socio-economic disparities often go unnoticed. In 2021, she conducted a study among low-income Jewish parents in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic, spotlighting economic challenges. This research was published in Contemporary Jewry and featured in prominent media outlets like the Washington Post, amplifying the voices of economically vulnerable Jews. Recognizing this, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation awarded me a $325K grant to lead a national study on economic precarity among American Jews. This study involves surveying 2,000 U.S. Jews, along with in-depth interviews, and aims to reshape national Jewish discussions by highlighting socio-economic concerns.

Hannah Lebovits PhD

Hannah Lebovits is an assistant professor of urban planning and public affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research investigates the ways in which marginalized and minoritized citizens interact with the state within the areas of housing, homelessness, and community development. Through her work, Lebovits engages deeply with individuals in precarious living conditions to generate rigorous research findings and provide expert analysis and commentary. When not working, Lebovits spends her time volunteering for her community and exploring the DFW Metroplex with her husband and three small children.

Adina Poupko

Adina serves as the Executive Director of the Natan Fund. Before coming to Natan, Adina oversaw student leadership programs and student programming at Yeshiva University, and was the Director of National Partnerships at Masa Israel.

Adina is a Wexner Field Fellow. Previously, Adina was a fellow at the Ruskay Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership at UJA Federation of NY, received a certificate in Experiential Jewish Education, and received a Masters in Non-Profit Management and Public Policy from NYU Wagner. Adina was raised in both Montreal and Cincinnati, and found her love for Jewish communal work at Camp Stone, where she worked for many summers. Adina currently resides on the Upper West Side.

TEN Team Bios

Rachel Sumekh

Jon Hornstein

Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu

Susan Wolf-Ditkoff

Cassie Malane

Rachel Sumekh

Rachel Sumekh is a strategist and social impact consultant with RNS Impact. She currently serves as the Project Executive for TEN, a partnership between JFN and the Weinberg Foundation focused on addressing Jewish Poverty. For 10 years, she served as the CEO and Founder of Swipe Out Hunger. The organization is the leading nonprofit in addressing hunger amongst college students. Swipe Out Hunger has been recognized by The Obama White House and landed Rachel on the Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.

Swipe Out Hunger began in 2010 with a few friends at UCLA. Since, its network has grown to over 750 universities, serving millions of nourishing meals. The organization’s innovative approach allows university students to donate unused funds from their meal plans to food insecure peers. In 2021, Swipe merged with the College and University Food Bank Alliance (CUFBA) becoming the home for the food pantry movement. Rachel wrote the Hunger Free Campus Act which has been passed in California and eight other states, sending over $100+ million to anti-hunger programs on campus.

Rachel serves on the board of the Los Angeles Community College Foundation, formerly an IKAR board member and is a graduate of UCLA. Rachel is the proud daughter of Iranian Jewish immigrants.

Jon Hornstein

Jon is a Program Director at The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, leading the Foundation’s grantmaking within the U.S. Jewish community. In this role, Jon leads strategy development for the U.S. Jewish portfolio and oversees grants of $20 to $25 million annually which focus primarily on direct services for people experiencing poverty, as well as other areas such as leadership development, racial and gender equity, and combatting antisemitism. A national thought leader on anti-poverty work in the Jewish community, Jon led the establishment of the National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty (now TEN: Together Ending Need) and authored “Jewish Poverty in the United States: A Summary of Recent Research” in 2019. Prior to his role at Weinberg, Jon provided strategy consulting services to over 20 organizations within the education and social impact sectors across two firms (Tyton Partners in Boston and Huron Consulting Group in Chicago). Jon has been selected as a Baltimore Corps Fellow and an Education Pioneers Fellow, and spends his volunteer time building Jewish community and mentoring young people. He graduated with a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu

Rabbi Sirbu is the Executive Vice President at The Jewish Funders Network. She was previously the Director of the Engagement Division at Hadassah, where she was bringing Hadassah’s vision to a whole new generation of women. Selected as one of the “Most Inspirational Rabbis in America” by The Forward Newspaper, Rabbi Sirbu sits at the leading edge of American Jewish life. She arrived at Hadassah after being the Director of Clal’s Rabbis Without Borders, a pluralist network of rabbis dedicated to serving the needs of all people through creative use of Jewish wisdom.

In addition, she is a co-founder of the Gender Equity in Hiring Project which brings the best practices in gender balanced hiring to lay and professional leaders. She is an expert voice on social media, and a speaker and writer on a variety of issues related to religion in America today. Previously, Rabbi Sirbu was the founding director of The MetroWest Jewish Health and Healing Center and the Director of the Center for Jewish Life at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, she holds a master’s degree and ordination from  The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Susan Wolf Ditkoff

Susan Wolf Ditkoff (she) is a Senior Advisor at the Bridgespan Group, Senior Advisor to TEN: Together Ending Need, Administrative Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Affiliate Faculty at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research and writing focus on the ethics of wealth and philanthropy.

Ditkoff joined Bridgespan in 2001, serving most recently as a partner and co-head of the firm’s global philanthropy practice. She specializes in advising families and foundations who seek to support marginalized communities with passion and humility. She has also led design teams with community leaders on systems change initiatives and social movements. She has published extensively in the Harvard Business Review, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and numerous publications in the US, India, China, Israel, and the UK. Her research has been included in more than a dozen graduate school syllabi globally—including in HBR's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sector—and her interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance Live, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, and WNYC among other venues.

Ditkoff graduated from the Harvard Divinity School, where she researched Religion, Ethics, and Politics and won the school’s Kristal Stendahl prize for outstanding research, and from the Harvard Business School, where she co-founded the Social Enterprise New Venture Competition, served as an elected member of the School’s ethics panel, and was later appointed Vice President of the HBS Alumni Board of Directors. She was also a Visiting Lab Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Center for Ethics at Harvard and a Leadership Coach in the HBS Executive Education program. Previously, Ditkoff was a financial analyst and behavioral health analyst in the private sector. She was trained in ethnography and anthropological linguistics at Yale College, where she researched the public education of Spanish-speaking students in the United States and served a practicum as a bilingual classroom aide in a local public school. She was a publicly elected school board official for more than 14 years, where she co-chaired two public school building projects ($350 million) and the District’s COVID-19 Task Force on Remote Learning and School Reopening. She and her family live in the Boston area.

Cassie Malane

Cassie Malane serves as a Program Associate for The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. In their role, they are responsible for providing support to the Program Director and Senior Program Officer, within the Foundation’s Israel grantmaking portfolio which provides $12-18 million annually to Israeli nonprofits focused on Aging in Community, employment training programs leading to economic independence, and women at risk.

Cassie joined the Foundation in December 2019 as an Executive Assistant, after serving in the Peace Corps as a Maternal and Child Health Volunteer in Rwanda for 27 months where she worked at the nutrition clinic at a rural health center to assist in building the capacity of the program. In her role, she assisted the department develop trainings for community health workers, students, nutrition program participants and health center staff about hygiene and nutrition using guidelines from the First 1000 Days Initiative and WASH. In addition to developing trainings, she helped with the daily activities of distributing government subsidized foods and monitored children with acute and chronic malnutrition. During her service she served as the Chair of the Volunteer Advisory Committee and as the Fundraising Chair on the regional camp committee.

Cassie is currently a student at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy and a Fellow at the Do-Good Institute to complete her Masters and a certificate program in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She received a Bachelor of Science at James Madison University and majored in Health Sciences and minored in Humanitarian Affairs.

TEN: Together Ending Need is a collaborative of funders, institutions, direct service agencies, researchers, media outlets, and the greater community dedicated to fighting poverty in the American Jewish community. Founded in 2019, it is coordinated by Jewish Funders Network and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Sign up here.

Some key data on Jewish Poverty

• 21% of Jewish households are low income, and only 11% of those are Orthodox
• According to Pew Research, in 2021, there were around an equal number of Jews making under $50,000 (21%) as making over $200,000 (23%)
• It's only getting worse. Every day, more Jewish families are struggling to make ends meet. From 1991 to 2011, the number of people living in low-income Jewish households in New York City DOUBLED from about 180,000 to 361,100
• These families are often one event away—one emergency, one home repair— from falling into serious financial crisis
• Members of our Jewish community who experience the impact of financial insecurity are essential voices in our work and communal life.
• After four years, the National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty rebranded as TEN: Together Ending Need. TEN brings together funders, social service agencies, and communal leaders to build a Jewish community that supports the basic needs and humanity of our people. Like a minyan coming together

TEN represents the essentialism of collection action towards our shared goal. If you are a funder interested in connecting with other leaders working to end Jewish and communal Povery, visit email rsumekh@jfunders.org.

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