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philanthropist
Patriots owner Robert Kraft to receive honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University
Jewish Journal
February 4, 2016
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a noted philanthropist, will receive an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University.
Lynn Schusterman: Making it possible for Jewish innovators to create
Esther D. Kustanowitz
December 4, 2015
Lynn Schusterman has been at every ROI Summit (see main article) since 2006 and at dozens of other Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation programs year round, to see for herself how her considerable investment in the Jewish future is yielding fruit.
‘The Simpsons’ co-creator Sam Simon dies at age 59
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2015
Sam Simon, a co-creator of Fox\’s long-running hit animated series \”The Simpsons\” and an ardent philanthropist for animals, died after a battle with colon cancer, his agent said on Monday. He was 59.
Genesis Philanthropy Group names Ilia Salita as new CEO
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2014
Ilia Salita is the new CEO of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, which awards the annual Genesis Prize.
Mark C. Levy, prominent philanthropist, Jewish leader; 88
Anita K. Kantrowitz
March 5, 2014
Mark C. Levy, prominent philanthropist and Jewish leader, died Feb. 18 at 88. Levy was involved with numerous Jewish communal, humanitarian, religious and cultural organizations, including the Skirball Cultural Center, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Leo Baeck Temple, Hillel and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ).
Billionaire Stewart Rahr sets sights on Israel
Jewish Journal
February 13, 2014
In the course of a few short days last month, billionaire philanthropist Stewart Rahr spent half a million dollars to bring Holocaust survivors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland; then he flew on to Israel, where he doubled the size of a fleet of emergency medical response vehicles, connected with a charity that helps Jewish and Arab special-needs children and another that feeds Israel’s poor; held back-to-back meetings with other charities and politicians anxious for a chance to interest the fast-moving Rahr’s generous fancy and capped it all off with a private meeting with President Shimon Peres.\n
Philanthropists honored for lifetime of giving
Ryan Torok
June 27, 2013
Iranian Jewish philanthropist Izak Parviz Nazarian, 83, watched from his seat while Dora Kadisha, his daughter, spoke from a nearby stage about her love of Israel, her community and helping other people. It was her father who taught her the importance of this mentality, she said.
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