[Note: This article originally appeared in eJewishphilanthropy.] Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, the first and only nonprofit funeral chapel in New York that is owned and operated by the Jewish Community, will be stepping up its efforts to serve as a valuable community resource on issues of mourning and burial now that it is retiring its…
A Wall Street veteran who retired in 2011 at age 47, Michael Lustig chatted with Jewish Communal Fund about his “encore career” volunteering with Jewish nonprofits, including UJA-Federation of New York, The Columbia/Barnard Hillel, NYLAG, and the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue. He also shared stunning photos from his recent trip to Ethiopia. Read more to…
Note: Elie Wiesel served on the host committee of Defiant Requiem, a concert held in April at Lincoln Center to benefit the UJA-Federation of New York Community Initiative for Holocaust Survivors. In honor of JCF’s Special Gift Fund grant of $100,000 to the Community Initiative for Holocaust Survivors, our VP/Controller — Saul Wadowski — shares his own…
Approximately half a million survivors of the Holocaust are alive today: The largest community of survivors in the United States is in the Greater New York area – close to 73,000. The majority of these survivors are between the ages of 73 and 85, and half of them are living in poverty. In 2013, Jewish…
Jewish Communal Fund is delighted to welcome Teena Lerner to our Board of Trustees. Teena, a former bio-tech analyst and hedge fund manager, holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from The Rockefeller University. She currently serves as Chair of the Development Committee at Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy, a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School in…