FOLLOWING THE MONEY: A Look at Jewish Foundation Giving

FOLLOWING THE MONEY: A Look at Jewish Foundation Giving Erik Ludwig and Aryeh Weinberg, IJCR, February 10, 2012 This summary examines giving characteristics of selected Jewish foundations with approximately $20 billion in combined assets who made grants of $1.4 billion to Jewish causes. The data revealed that perhaps the most important decision private foundations have made is to continue to provide significant support toward traditional centralized organizations while also seeding innovative Jewish projects and organizations. This “and/both” instead of “either/or” approach provides the Jewish community with support for core programs while maintaining the ability to research and develop new programs that meet contemporary needs. Read the study's findings

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The Institute for Jewish & Community Research announces the 2012 call for submissions for the Gary A. Tobin Awards for excellence in student reporting on anti-Semitism. Works produced by students are some of the most influential in setting the tone of campus discourse. The Tobin Award's goal is to stimulate interest and activity in writing that restores rational and civil dialogue on campus.

The Campaign Against Campus Anti-Semitism

Advocates are making progress, but they also face setbacks. There is no substitute for victory. Nevertheless, these cases have already yielded favorable results, regardless of their outcome on appeal.

Jews and Hindus: Building A Passage to India

Jews and Hindus have both been victims of attempted extermination by Islamics. A speech to Hindu youth in Pune.

The dangers of demonology

Ethnic minorities—most obviously the Jews in Europe and America but also the Chinese in Asia—have clustered in the financial sector first because they were barred from more "respectable" pursuits and later because success begets success. A survey in the Boston Review in 2009 found that 25% of non-Jewish Americans blamed Jews for the financial crisis.

Whatever happened to neoconservatism?

Neoconservatives are not conservatives as such but liberals who have fallen out with other liberals because they think non-Europeans should be held up to the same standards as everyone else.

Pro-Israel philanthropist Newton Becker dies at age 83

Ryan Torok, The Telegraph, January 4, 2012

Philanthropist Newton Becker died on Jan. 2, and with his death, the pro-Israel and Jewish communities have lost one of their biggest supporters.

New program to combat anti-Semitism  

Noah Klieger, Ynetnews, January 29, 2012

A new international information center for combating anti-Semitism will be established at Bar-Ilan University.

Matt Coker, OC Weekly, January 24, 2012  

The disclosure of the secret meeting caused the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish & Community Research to brand the entire trip "a serious misuse of funds and gross violation of public trust."

Danna Harman, Haaretz, January 17, 2012  

Jewish student's nose gets broken after he asks to stop the anti-Semitic drinking game at a London School of Economics university ski vacation.

JTA, January 9, 2012  

Police in Turin are investigating a high school teacher who threatened in a Facebook post to massacre Jews and go "target shooting" against African immigrants.

Steve Rubin, Haaretz, January 5, 2012  

The de-legitimization of Israel is being perpetuated by the Jewish state's lack of a concrete plan to counter a new generation of anti-Israeli attitudes on college campuses.

Anti-Semitism is still flourishing throughout Germany, study shows
Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, January 24, 2012  

About 20 percent of Germans have a "latent" hatred for Jews, according to a new study published by an independent committee of experts appointed by the German parliament.

No apologies to the Jews
Manfred Gerstenfeld, Ynetnews, January 9, 2012  

Will Dutch prime minister finally apologize for Holland's wartime misconduct?

Lithuanian paper prints anti-Semitic front page
Defending-History.com, December 21, 2011  

The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed "disgust and outrage" over the frontpage of a Lithuanian tabloid newspaper that it termed a "blatantly anti-Semitic attack on the Lithuanian Jewish community."

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