We Need a Fuller Picture of Jewish Young Adults
We know that any serious strategy for the future of Jewish life will require us to deeply understand both the young adults who are most engaged and the majority who are not.
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We know that any serious strategy for the future of Jewish life will require us to deeply understand both the young adults who are most engaged and the majority who are not.
From the Foundation Team
In this complex climate, our grantee-partners (and all nonprofits) deserve a technology infrastructure that matches the ambition of their missions: engaging young people, strengthening communities, training educators, providing meaningful learning, and…
From the Foundation Team
We know that any serious strategy for the future of Jewish life will require us to deeply understand both the young adults who are most engaged and the majority who are not.
From the Foundation Team
We need to stop treating the Israel-Diaspora relationship as an abstract communal issue. It is personal, familial, and urgent. We know how to fund, how to build, and how to convene.
From the Foundation Team
The most powerful professional development experiences create space for reflection, relationships, confidence-building, and sustained learning that changes how we how we work and how we understand ourselves as leaders.
From the Foundation Team
If the world around our institutions has changed so dramatically and so quickly, compelling our professionals to change, it begs a question: have the systems through which we govern our Jewish institutions changed as well? The answer, in many cases, is…
From the Foundation Team
What might it look like to be more intentional about cultivating Jewish thought leadership to strengthen our capacity for learning, meaning-making, connection and dialogue?
From the Foundation Team
When a Jewish person is killed thousands of miles away, Jews around the world often feel it as a personal loss. Not symbolically. Not intellectually. Personally.
From the Foundation Team
In a world sprinting toward quick answers, Judaism offers a harder path: hold the full picture, stay in the questions, honor multiple truths and refuse to flatten complexity. Wrestling with ideas isn’t a glitch in our tradition. It is the soul of it.
From the Foundation Team
The Foundation's first principles—a guide for the team’s approach—offered me a playbook and structure during a fast-moving, evolving re-onboarding period at the Foundation over the past six months.
From the Foundation Team
The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
From the Foundation Team
We ask people to work in a storm that’s battering all of us from every angle. If we don’t start protecting and replenishing them now, there won’t be enough of them left to rebuild whatever comes next.
From the Foundation Team
Part of my onboarding is to increase my understanding of the multifaceted American Jewish community while using my experience from Mexico (and other countries where I’ve had the privilege to live and study) to enhance my work.