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Month: December 2019

 
Creating Memorable Moments
December 23, 2019
Amir Shacham Associate Executive Vice President, Global Connections
What do these moments have in common?...
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Increasing in Matters of Holiness
December 23, 2019
Dov Ben-Shimon Federation CEO
There’s a fascinating debate in the Talmud, in Tractate Shabbat, between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The question that they’re...
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There’s a Here- Here
December 19, 2019
Robert Lichtman Chief Jewish Learning Officer
For as long as our collective memory can recall, we have been playing dreidel, winning and losing according to the letters on the four-sided top with ...
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Seasons Greeting – from Auschwitz?
December 11, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown Director of Holocaust Education
I spend a whole lot of time blogging, posting, and speaking about when things are either anti-Semitic or insulting to the memory of the Holocaust, or ...
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Make the Most of Your Year-End Charitable Giving
December 11, 2019
Steven Levy JCF President
With the end of the 2019 tax year fast approaching and the stock market at or near record highs, now is a great time to use your appreciated...
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