Category
Giving
Wine Wednesday pairs wine with charity across the world
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2016
An Israeli initiative has reinvented the traditional fundraiser and taken it global.
Generations of generosity
Eitan Arom
November 17, 2016
Between November 1930 and Aug. 28, 1931, Mark Schulman wrote hundreds of letters to his sweetheart, Esther Wiesman, in San Francisco; by his count, he wrote 90 letters in one five-week period.
Leeds family shares the values of great leaders, good neighbors
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2016
At the age of 14, with $500 saved up from bussing tables, Fred Leeds bought a 1965 Mustang. A couple of months later, he sold it for $900.
No donation too small for tzedakah
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2016
It would be nice to have millions of dollars that could be used to better the world. But let’s be honest: Most of us don’t have gargantuan bank balances, seismic investment portfolios or seven-figure incomes.
He reached into his pockets to give back
Karmel Melamed
November 17, 2016
As members of Iran’s Jewish community fled their home nation over the years and settled in places like Los Angeles and New York, they brought with them both an entrepreneurial spirit and a philanthropic one.
Making an impact in the Jewish world with philanthropic spirit
Ryan Torok
November 17, 2016
Ellen Bronfman Hauptman — whose grandfather started the Seagram company and whose father co-founded Birthright Israel — will never forget an unexpected but powerful lesson she learned as a student at Yale University.
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