TEL AVIV — Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at improving dialogue within the Jewish people and identifying new young Jewish leaders at the opening session of the Jewish Federations of North America’s...
The Eastern philosopher Al Farabi believed that a virtuous society is one where there is room for the constructive use of the different skills and talents of all inhabitants. Happiness, thus, results from one’s connection to others and from...
I recently asked a prominent figure in Israel how they would respond to the issue of judicial reform. They answered that they couldn’t make an explicit response, since such a move would risk alienating other concerned parties and the issue...
Historically, Judaism is basically a text-based faith. We collect. We sit across the desk. We examine. Consequently, Jewish schooling has not at all times been as receptive to these for whom sitting and studying is just not the very...
Welcome to the Spotlight! It seems that talk of being at an inflection point in the adoption of artificial intelligence (hat tip to Haley Joel Osment) is ubiquitous. First, there came the lawsuit by Getty Images against an AI...
While inflation appears to be easing, many nonprofits across the country have yet to feel relief and are preparing for what appears to be a likely recession later this year. “Not only did inflation hit the clients and the...
From comparative obscurity, ‘family offices’, structures that protect and nurture the assets of successful families, have become a major sector in their own right. Management, which could...
The Open Society Foundations has introduced grants totalling $16 million for social tasks in Colombia, as part of its work in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's the most important social funding from OSF in Colombia, the place the...
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg plans to leave his business empire to his philanthropic organization—in what would be one of the largest charitable donations in history.
“He has committed to giving the company away to Bloomberg Philanthropies when he dies, if not...
