Philanthropy project puts teens in charge

Published on June 6, 2012

Solly Hess, West Coast regional director of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY), was looking for ways to get Jewish teenagers motivated about charitable giving last summer. With the help of Brandon Lurie, a YULA Boys student and NCSY regional board member, he came up with a project that would eventually make an impact on youth as well as the local Jewish community: the Teen Philanthropy Movement.

Adelsons give $5 million matching grant to Birthright

Published on July 28, 2011

Philanthropists Sheldon and Miriam Adelson are giving a $5 million matching grant to Taglit-Birthright Israel.

A 15-year plan for Israel

By Gidi Grinstein
Published on May 15, 2008

At its 60th anniversary, Israel needs a new vision that not only will guide its priorities and inform its actions, but also will be relevant to the lives of all Israelis.

Local students go to lobby in D.C., seniors party at ‘senior prom’

By Danielle Berrin
Published on April 24, 2008

Local Students Lobby at the Capitol


A group of University Synagogue religious school students paid a springtime visit to Washington, D.C., where they

Million-dollar night for ADL

By Danielle Berrin
Published on December 13, 2007

Awash in diamonds, dresses and lapels, wealthy and fashionable philanthropists worked their weight in gold: in just one night, $1 million was raised for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which inspired 850 guests with the creed, "Be the change you want to see in the world."

A Big Giver

By Rob Eshman
Published on March 22, 2007

Anyone who cares about the future of Jewish life in Los Angeles eventually explodes in frustration over the community's inability to tap its own enormous wealth.

The King of Hearts; Celebrating diversity

By Norma Zager
Published on December 7, 2006

Circuit

50 Nifty Jewish Groups

By Rachel Pomerance
Published on September 15, 2005

Do the words "innovative" and "Jewish groups" seem like oxymorons? Not to the publishers of "Slingshot," a new guidebook to the "50 most innovative Jewish groups in North America," published by a division of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies.

50 Nifty Jewish Groups

By Rachel Pomerance
Published on September 15, 2005

Do the words "innovative" and "Jewish groups" seem like oxymorons? Not to the publishers of "Slingshot," a new guidebook to the "50 most innovative Jewish groups in North America," published by a division of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies.

100 Lessons

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on December 11, 2003

While studying for rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University in the late '70s, I was at the main study hall dedication where the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik spoke, honoring the great philanthropist, Joseph Gruss, who underwrote the project.