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…
Jewish Communal Fund President Karen Adler participated in a thoughtful conversation about innovation with her nephew, Jonathan Raiffe, Chair of Slingshot, at Slingshot Day, held earlier this month at the Kimmel Center at NYU. Listen to the entire talk below: The two spoke of how they came to be interested in innovation in Jewish life,…
Jewish Communal Fund and State of Israel Bonds recently hosted a well-attended cocktail reception and briefing on the topic “Challenges and Opportunities for Israel in 2013” with Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz. Shira Lewis, a JCF fund holder who is also a member of the national Board of Directors, the National Women’s Division Associate Chair and the Rockland County…
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…