Federations' Nepal Relief Fund has raised just over $800,000 to help survivors of the two devastating earthquakes. Federations’ partners are working around the clock to help the 17,000 injured victims and 600,000 homeless families in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Rabbi Steve Gutow, who helped found the Israel Action Network alongside JFNA, will step down at the end of the year from his role as president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. The executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations …
Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, a consortium of 49 Jewish organizations including Federations, allocated $25,000 to Chabad of Nepal. In the wake of two devastating earthquakes, the Chabad house has become a refuge for hundreds of stranded Israeli tourists, and its volunteers are workin…
A multi-denominational group of civic leaders in upstate NY defeated a national effort to boycott Israeli goods at a local food co-op with help from the Federation-funded Israel Action Network. It was successfully argued that the targeted boycott would violate NY’s human rights laws, and t…
Experts from the Berman Jewish Databank, a project of Federations, reviewed a new Pew study on religion in America. They highlighted that media reports that 1 in 6 Jews are “new to the faith” do not reflect the complexity of the situation, including larger questions of Jewish parentage, …
