For 4 decades of research developing research aimed at helping disadvantaged Israelis, Jack Habib, head of the Federation-supported Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from top Israeli academics and policymakers. Read more.
JFNA praises law enforcement and expresses relief after an arrest is made for the majority of bomb threats called into Jewish institutions across North America.
JFNA board chair Richard Sandler and executive committee member and GA co-chair Julie Platt co-author an op-ed on the role of Federations in a charged political environment.
JFNA's Israel Action Network helps Texas and North Carolina state legislatures pass bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel which, once signed, will make them the 17th and 18th states, respectively, to take such action.
$1.8 million was pledged—a 10.5% gift-for-gift increase from last year—by the 47 participants from 16 communities returning from the 2017 King David Society Mission to Argentina. They also raised $50,000 for scholarships to Buenos Aires’s ORT school.
