U.S. Jewish groups hailed the Biden administration’s nomination of former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for the post of U.S. ambassador to Israel, with the Orthodox Union calling him a “seasoned negotiator and dedicated public servant.” The Zionist Organization of America, however, said it “strongly opposes” him for the role…
The first U.S.-based charity dedicated exclusively to funding the protests against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul, the America-Israel Democracy Coalition, was launched recently, led by Israeli-American Jonathan Barsade…
Four “amazingly preserved” 1,900-year-old Roman swords, which may have been used in the Bar Kochba revolt, were found in the Judean Desert…
British communal leaders had a “frank, and not always comfortable” meeting with Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli in London yesterday. During the meeting, those in attendance voiced their concerns to Chikli about the government’s judicial overhaul, as well as the “pressures faced by the Israeli LGBT community, the rights of Reform Jews in Israel and the severe challenges facing Arab citizens of Israel”…
Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the Proud Boys fascist group, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in planning the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol building…
The Samuels Family Foundation provided a grant for an undisclosed amount to the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice University to digitize thousands of pages of Houston Jewish history, including decades worth of Jewish Federation of Greater Houston board minutes, program guides and newsletters…
Ten researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have received nearly $18 million (16.7 million euros) in “starting grants” from the European Research Council for a variety of projects, with each receiving between 1.5 to 2.5 million euros…
The Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Legacy Trust is publishing a trove of free educational resources for the upcoming High Holidays inspired by the former British chief rabbi’s teachings…
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations pledged $107 million to start a new foundation to assist Europe’s Roma population. The announcement comes amid questions about the foundation’s future in Europe…
A new eye-tracking tool developed by the Marcus Autism Center, which is funded by philanthropist Bernie Marcus, may help doctors diagnose autism a year or two earlier than is currently possible…
The Mandel JCC in Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., retracted its invitation to author Rachel Beanland to speak about her new work, The House Is On Fire, due to the book’s focus on slavery (it’s about the true story of an 1811 fire at a theater that killed 72 people in Richmond, Va.), which the JCC said was a “complicated” topic to discuss in Florida. After Beanland published the emails disinviting her, the JCC re-invited her, but she declined…
The philanthropy research organization Candid is giving control of its website about community foundations, CF Insights and the staff that run it to the Council on Foundations, an umbrella group consisting of nearly 900 nonprofits. Candid’s CEO said this is to allow her organization to focus on its core issues…
Labour Friends of Israel held its largest-ever delegation to Israel and the West Bank, bringing seven prospective Labor parliamentary candidates, as well as former MP Dame Louise Ellman and LFI’s vice-chair MP Sharon Hodgson…
A new report from the Council on Foundations and the Commonfund Institute found that U.S. foundations showed the largest year-over-year drop in their investment returns since 2008…
Shabtai Shavit, the seventh head of the Mossad spy agency, died yesterday at 84…
Bill Pinkney, a Jewish sailor who was the first Black person to sail around the Earth solo, died last Thursday at 87…
David Wolnerman, the last known Holocaust survivor living in Des Moines, Iowa, died on Monday at 96…
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