Our team is adopting a shift to more nuanced language that builds on prior research and focuses on the many diverse and divergent ways Jewish people orient themselves to their Jewishness and to formal Jewish community.
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Our team is adopting a shift to more nuanced language that builds on prior research and focuses on the many diverse and divergent ways Jewish people orient themselves to their Jewishness and to formal Jewish community.
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Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
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As part of our Emergent Strategy at the Jim Joseph Foundation, we have a desire to explore new and more effective pathways in understanding and practicing Jewish education
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The Foundation has also integrated cross-portfolio evaluation into more of our work to learn about shared outcomes across different sets of grantee-partners.
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As the Foundation’s grants to these communities conclude, we are eager to advance this work in different ways. While our local partners on the ground continue to cultivate important relationships with an eye on sustainability, we want to share learnings…
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Instead of reacting to emergencies and then waiting to “get back to normal,” we must recognize that we are living in a new normal.
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Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.
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We are pleased that Build Grants are helping the foundation reach new audiences and support new approaches to powerful Jewish learning; and we look forward to continuing to learn and to share our insights along this journey
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Continue or start giving to Israel. And continue or start giving to the North American Jewish community. This is a moment to dig deeper than we ever have for Jewish related philanthropy, and we need to give more than ever by a large factor. The time…
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Some children feel forced by parents to go to their religion's place of worship. I would have felt so much safer and loved if we had the same kinds of safe spaces I see our grantee-partners create. I have friends on friends who would have been saved from…
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There’s a new opportunity for professionals in the Jewish community to amplify critical knowledge, skill set, and impact around scale.
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Convenings are part of our strategy to scale best practices—whether in data gathering and usage, design of professional development programs, Jewish learning experiences, or other models—from one organization or community to others in the field.