Getting the Jewish Workforce Out of ‘the Red Zone’

Recently, over morning coffee, my wife remarked to me how lucky I am to do the work I do to help the Jewish community in this moment.

She was and is 100% correct. “I know that I am so fortunate,” I said. “I have an amazing job, incredible colleagues and a brilliant and supportive board.  I am on the funder side, where true emergencies are extremely rare.”

“Even with all that,” I confided, “I very occasionally wish I was doing something else. It’s hard to be in the Red Zone all day, every day, which has been the case since Oct. 7.”

Barry Finestone is president and CEO of the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Read the full blog in eJewish Philanthropy as part of its opinion column “The 501(C) Suite.”