The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust issued an $18 million grant for the construction of a computer science building at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva…
B’nai B’rith presented its World Center Award, recognizing excellence in “Diaspora reportage,” to Yedioth Aharonoth and Ynet reporter Itamar Eichner last night. Maariv reporter Josh Aronson and eJewishPhilanthropy news editor Judah Ari Gross received certificates of merit. Izhak Hildesheimer received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award…
The Israeli NGO IsraAid is opening a new office in Sydney to better facilitate the organization’s activities in the Pacific, particularly in a long-term project in Vanuatu…
Jonathon Sherman, the son of slain Canadian billionaire philanthropists Honey and Barry Sherman, donated $52 million to the Toronto Jewish community so it can build a new hockey rink, the Honey and Barry Memorial Arena…
Open Society Foundations will lay off at least 40% of its staff. The mass termination announcement came a month after George Soros handed control of the multibillion-dollar foundation to his son Alexander…
Jewish groups denounced the BBC after one of its presenters, Anjana Gadgil, said on-air that “Israeli forces are happy to kill children” in an interview last night with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the IDF’s recent operation in the West Bank city of Jenin…
Soccer star David Beckham, whose maternal grandfather was Jewish, said he was “proud to be part of the Jewish community” at the the launch of the Lira Winston Fellowships, which nurture Jewish education leaders, at St. John’s Wood Synagogue in London…
Fox News agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit from a former staffer, Abby Grossberg, who accused the network of maintaining an antisemitic and sexist workplace atmosphere…
A gala event for Beit Halochem U.K., which donates money for a network of Israeli facilities that help wounded IDF veterans, raised $1.59 million for the organization…
The New York City Department of Education found that 18 Hasidic yeshivas in the city had failed to provide the education required by state law, following an eight-year investigation…
Gerald Benstock, chairman and CEO of Superior Group of Companies who donated to many Jewish causes, died last week at 93…
Evelyn Phyllis Berkowitz, a longtime member of Texas’ Jewish community and donor to Hadassah, died this week at 90…
Eva Kastan Grove, a Northern California-based philanthropist and social worker who was born to Austrian Jewish parents who fled the Nazis, died recently at 87…
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