Oklahoma tornado: How you can help

Published on May 21, 2013

Jewish groups are joining the effort to help those displaced by the tornado in suburban Oklahoma City.

$20,000 fund to advance Jewish innovation in Australia

Published on August 29, 2012

A $20,000 fund to advance Jewish innovation in Australia was launched by the ROI Community, a global network of young Jewish innovators, and Australian Jewish Funders.

Buffett points the way

Published on November 17, 2011

Warren E. Buffett is the second-richest person in the United States (after Microsoft’s Bill Gates), so when he purchased an Israeli-based stock not long ago, investors throughout the world sat up and took notice. What made it more newsworthy is that it was Buffett’s first major foray into overseas investing. Up to that point, he said he could always find good stocks here at home.

Jewish Agency establishes South American fund

Published on November 17, 2011

The Jewish Agency has established a Fund for the Jewish Future to strengthen the connection of young South American Jews to Israel and to the global Jewish community.

Leiby Kletzky’s parents release statement, launch memorial fund

Published on July 22, 2011

The parents of murdered 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky have created a memorial fund in their son's name to assist the needy.

BIRD Foundation awards $8 million for U.S.-Israel research

Published on July 6, 2011

A foundation that works to support industrial research and development to benefit the United States and Israel will invest more than $8 million in nine new projects.

Museum launches fund to honor slain guard

Published on April 27, 2010

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has established an endowment fund in memory of a security guard slain there.

The Social Security Fix: Pay Back Funds

By Rep. Henry Waxman
Published on April 14, 2005

President Bush has proposed the biggest transfer of wealth in history. He plans to use trillions of dollars in contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and other administration spending priorities.

Yeladim

By Abby Gilad
Published on February 24, 2005

In Parshat Ki Tisa, each Israelite is instructed to give a half-shekel to the "temple fund" every year. There is a midrash – a story told by rabbis to teach a lesson – about this portion.

L.A. Resident Loses Family in Bus Bombing

By Julie G Fax
Published on September 9, 2004

Aviel Atash was the entire world for his mother, Rachel.

Big-Screen King’s Legacy of Generosity

By Andrea Adelson
Published on October 2, 2003

Paul I. Goldenberg avoided playgrounds and sports when he was growing up because he lacked athletic prowess. He spent hours in the cool darkness of a movie house.
The Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda honored Goldenberg, 75, owner of La Habra's Paul's TV & Video, as well as others at a gala last month. Goldenberg helped fund the home's newest $14.3 million building, designed to reflect the latest research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia. He pledged another $2 million towards a $52 million nursing-home expansion, which is hoped will accommodate 40 percent of those on the facility's 350-person waiting list.

Food Poverty Grows in Israel

By Loolwa Khazzoom
Published on September 18, 2003

When, not so long ago, the director of an Israeli nonprofit organization noticed that an employee would appear at work every Sunday morning so fatigued that he could barely function, he issued him a stern warning to "stop partying so hard on Saturday nights."

The gaunt-looking employee burst into tears, explaining that he had not eaten since Thursday afternoon, when he received his last hot meal of the week at work.

Community Briefs

Published on February 13, 2003

If there was any doubt that the Polish government is taking seriously plans to build a Museum of Polish Jewish History in Warsaw, they were
put to rest Feb. 5 in Beverly Hills.

Funds Combat ‘Who Is a Jew’ Wars

By Journal Staff
Published on January 2, 2003

In 1997, stimulated by the controversy over whether non-Orthodox converts would be registered as Jews by the Israeli government -- the latest battle in the "who is a Jew?" wars -- The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles began making funds available to what it calls "pluralism" projects. The projects are programs and activities aimed at stimulating religious pluralism and supporting "alternative" forms of Judaism in Israel, as well as increasing Jewish knowledge among Israel's secular population.

Budget Worries

By Mike Levy
Published on January 24, 2002

Gov. Gray Davis' proposed state budget for 2002-2003 has local Jewish organizations worried. With the state's approximately $12 billion deficit (in a proposed $98 billion budget) covered by program cuts, along with loans and spending deferrals, local agencies such as Jewish Family Service (JFS) and Jewish Vocational Service may face a significant reduction in funding.

Shefa Fund Reaches L.A.

By Tom Tugend
Published on August 23, 2001

"The premise of our mission is idealistic, even romantic, but we operate on a very realistic set of values," says Jeffrey Dekro, founder and president of the Shefa Fund, a public foundation aimed at social causes.

Israel 101

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on December 7, 2000

The October Violence is the short-hand designation for the deadly sniping, shooting and police action between Palestinians and Israelis, including the unprecedented call-to-arms of Israeli Arabs. If American Jews accept "October Violence" as the title (Palestinians call it "the riots," while the American press reprises the frightening "intifada"), two months later we haven't yet found a way to talk about it, even among ourselves.

End in Sight

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 2, 2000

Establishment of a $4.2 million humanitarian fund to aid needy Holocaust survivors in California has been delayed by bureaucratic snafus for almost a year, but there are strong hopes that the fund will finally be operative by the end of the year.

Laborers File Suit for Wartime Injustices

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 11, 1999

Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.

Invitation to a Showdown

Published on November 27, 1997

Readers' Quiz: Who was the unhappiest Jew in Indiana last week?

Entrepreneurial Philanthropy, the New Charity

Published on November 13, 1997

On a chilly autumn morning in late October, in a rooftop sukkahatop New York's Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a small group ofrabbis, Hebrew teachers and millionaire investors joined hands tomark what their leader called a "defining point in American Jewishphilanthropy": an $18 million fund to help create new Jewish dayschools around the country, paid for by a "partnership" among a dozenof America's richest Jewish families.