Groundbreaking affordable food initiative, supported in part by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the New York and Washington Federations, launches today in Sderot. 40 CityMart low-cost food coops will open in Israel’s socioeconomic periphery over the next few years; all earnings will be in…
In upstate New York, Federations and others join Muslim leaders to condemn hateful interpretations of Islam. View new story.
Supported by the Israel Action Network, a program powered by Federations, the United Auto Workers International Union strikes down a local California BDS resolution. More information.
Federations laud the U.S. Congress for passing a 2016 spending and tax bill including additional funding to help Holocaust Survivors and for homeland security nonprofit grants, and making the IRA charitable rollover permanent. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation.
In Budapest, JFNA’s William Daroff joined U.S. Government officials and the Hungarian Jewish community at a public event vehemently protesting plans to erect a statue honoring an official responsible for the deportation and murder of nearly 600,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Time…
