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OUTREACH

New Program Will Replace NEXT 

 It Is Time to Reinvent Our Approach to Jewish Day School Recruitment 

 Making Jewish e-Learning Accessible to All   

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Promoting From Within or Hiring From Outside: What is Best for the Nonprofit?

New Case Study Details of Successful Teen Education Funder Collaborative

Measures for Organizational Success: Setting Operational Standards for Jewish Nonprofits

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Genesis Generation Challenge Winners

Manners and the Nonprofit Org

 

NORTH AMERICA 

ISIS in Texas: Gunman Opens Fire at Mohammed Cartoon Contest 

 Jindal: I Wish Obama Was Tough on Iran as He's With the US Senate 

Carter Hearts Hamas   

In Defense of Marriage: Headed Downhill in a Hurry  

Orthodox Influx Remaking Marine Park 

                

ISRAEL

INTERNATIONAL

Argentina to Compensate Victims of 1994 Jewish Center Bombing 

 Jean Marie Le Pen Suspended From French Far Right Party 

Searching for Mercy in ISIS Territory  

Gulf States Want Weapons, Promises From US for Iran Nuke Deal Support

Iran Caught in the Act?

French Muslim Girl's Skirt Judged Too Long 

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

The Modern Orthodox Brain Drain 

Embracing a New Dynamic: Generation Z  

The Singular Life of the Klarsfelds, Husband & Wife Nazi Hunters

                              

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Outreach1New Program Will Replace NEXT 

An Article from The Jewish Week 


A program designed to keep Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni connected to the Jewish community after their free 10-day trip to Israel will cease operation June 30 to be replaced by a different initiative now being finalized, organizers announced this morning. Continue Reading

Outreach2It Is Time to Reinvent Our Approach to Day School Recruitment
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

In naming PEJE's Atidenu 18-month recruitment and retention program (generously co-funded by The AVI CHAI Foundation), we were motivated by a desire to convey two key points. Continue Reading

Outreach3Making Jewish e-Learning Accessible to All
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

I had a bar mitzvah, have been to Israel twice, recently graduated college, and am 22. I also happen to be blind. Continue Reading

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Organizations in the process of engaging new management or supervisory staff members often face a dilemma as whether to promote from within the organization or to bring in someone new from the outside. Continue Reading

FundraisingTwoNew Case Study Details of Successful Teen Education Funder Collaborative
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

A group comprised of 15 national and local funders committed to investing in community-based Jewish teen education initiatives has released a commissioned case study detailing insights and lessons learned from their first two years working together.
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Fundraising4Measures for Organizational Success: Setting Operational Standards for Jewish Non-Profits
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

How does your organization "stack up?" In exploring the best practices of American business, we have extracted and adopted ten standards by which Jewish organizations might "measure" their success.
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Fundraising5Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Genesis Generation Challenge Winners
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the nine recipients of the Genesis Generation Challenge, a competition supporting innovative projects guided by Jewish values to address the world's pressing issues. Continue Reading

Manners and the Nonprofit Org
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Is this you? Is this your organization? Your mission statement says you do good things: you raise funds for wonderful causes and you have many happy members - sounds like a lot of us. Continue Reading 




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Namart1ISIS in Texas: Gunmen Open Fire at Mohammed Cartoon Contest  

An Article from Reuters 

 

Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Continue Reading
  
Louisiana Governor Bobby (Piyush) Jindal on Friday endorsed Senator Marco Rubio's amendment that would make Iran recognize Israel as a condition for any deal. 
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"Carter seems more comfortable with terrorists than with friends like Israel." So said a newsflash on the Israeli daily Haaretz's website last Sunday. Continue Reading 

  
Namart5In Defense of Marriage: Headed Downhill in a Hurry
An Article from Jewish Media Resources

The rapidity with which the zeitgeist changes can catch observant Jews unawares. Two weeks ago, I suggested that the changing cultural assumptions with respect to same gender marriage may soon tar all observant Jews with the brush of bigotry. Continue Reading

Namart6 Orthodox Influx Remaking Marine Park
An Article from The Jewish Week

When Shalom Gurgov began looking to buy a house 18 months ago, he had hoped to find something close to where he was renting in Borough Park, or perhaps a place in Kensington, where his parents live. Continue Reading
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israel1Why Ethiopian-Israelis Took to Tel Aviv's Streets  

An Article from JTA 


A historically disadvantaged black minority is galvanized when one of its members appears to suffer brutality at the hands of police - and the episode is caught on video. Continue Reading

israel2First Rumblings in the Battle for Pluralism at the Western Wall
An Article from JTA

Last Monday, members of a women's group for the first time read from a full-size Torah scroll during their monthly prayer service at the Western Wall, contravening regulations that prohibit women from reading from the Torah there. Continue Reading

Israel3Daniel Tragerman Was Killed by Mortar Fire From UN Facility: Ex-IDF Chief
An Article from The Times of Israel

he mortar round that killed four-year-old Daniel Tragerman on the second to last day of the war in and around Gaza last summer was fired from a United Nations installation, Lt. Gen. (res) Benny Gantz, the commander of the army during the 50-day war, said on Monday. Continue Reading

israel5Jewish Migration to Israel Up 40% This Year So Far
An Article from The Guardian

Jewish immigration into Israel has surged more than 40% this year, but it is Ukrainians and Russians who are responsible for the rise, not western Europeans fleeing after the Paris attacks. Continue Reading

israel6The Youngest Ever MK Was Re-Elected in March
An Article from The Jewish Week

Stav Shaffir, who will turn 30 this month, is the youngest-ever female member of the Knesset, first elected two years ago on the Labor Party slate and re-elected in March. Continue Reading

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Intl1Argentina to Compensate Victims of 1994 Jewish Center Bombing
An Article from The Times of Israel

rgentine politicians passed a law Wednesday aimed at providing financial compensation to the victims of the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.
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Internatioanl2Jean Marie Le Pen Suspended From French Far Right Party  

An Article from The Associated Press 


French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was suspended Monday from the National Front party he built into a political force over four decades after a series of controversial remarks about Jews and Nazis put him on the fast track to disgrace. Continue Reading 
 

International3Searching for Mercy in ISIS Territory  

An Article from CBC Radio 

 

As the U.S. and its allies continue their aerial attack against ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq, Jurgen Todenhofer says their approach is all wrong.
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International3Gulf States Want Weapons, Promises From US for Iran Nuke Deal Support
An Article from Fox News

Leading Persian Gulf states want major new weapons systems and security guarantees from the White House in exchange for backing a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to U.S. and Arab officials. 
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International4Iran Caught in the Act?
An Article from Reuters

Britain has informed a United Nations sanctions panel of an active Iranian nuclear procurement network linked to two blacklisted firms, according to a confidential report by the panel seen by Reuters. Continue Reading

 

International5French Muslim Girl's Skirt Judged Too Long 

An Article from The Jewish Week

 

Impossible to skirt the issue - enforcing a religious code of dress at school can be tricky and controversial. Continue Reading 

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Interest1 The Modern Orthodox Brain Drain 

An Article from The Jewish Week 

  

Kudos to Elli Fischer for drawing attention to a fundamental crisis within American Modern Orthodoxy, one that is even graver than his diagnosis. Continue Reading  

 

Interestarticle6Embracing a New Dynamic: Generation Z  

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy 

 

Just as we think we are beginning to understand the Millennials, enter Generation Z. Continue Reading 

 

interest2The Singular Life of the Klarsfelds, Husband and Wife Nazi Hunters
An Article from Worldcrunch

Beate and Serge Klarsfeld are people of principle. Despite leading lives that seem to be drawn from the pages of a novel, hunting down Nazis from Cologne to La Paz, they didn't want their experiences turned into an epic tale.  Continue Reading

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