Guest post by Lisa Lepson (Joshua Venture Group) and Will Schneider (Slingshot) Toward the end of 2012 the central organization in the Jewish environmental movement, Hazon, merged with the more than 100-year old Jewish project, Isabella Freedman. The linking of an organization that has been identified in the Slingshot guide as a “Standard Bearer of…
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear someone say, “We don’t think what we are doing is particularly ‘sexy’; do I still have a shot at being involved with your organization?” You would think I was a modeling agent, but no, I’m a Jewish professional. Since there are very few jewrotica.org’s out there, “sexy” must…
By Margalit Rosenthal This year marks the publication of the eighth edition of Slingshot, a resource guide for Jewish innovation. While not a scientific study of the field, the guide offers one of the longest lenses on innovation in the contemporary Jewish community, providing insight into where innovation has occurred and also where it is most…