The Federation raised more than $4 million this year on Super Sunday, $1 million less than last year\’s $5 million tally. But organizers say that a new fundraising strategy this year has rendered the single-day total superficial.
The Chanukah effort is one of the first outcomes of Morasha\’s involvement with a three-year national research project of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
Every Chanukah, I am struck by the beauty of my chanukiyah as the flames glow steadily against the darkness around them.
Real estate entrepreneur Brad Gluckstein had a vision. Perhaps not as dramatic as one of those sightings of Mary Magdalene, but a vision nonetheless.
Leona Goldring is 93. She not only attends monthly Anti-Defamation League (ADL) meetings, as well as planning sessions for their fundraising events, but she also is still active in the Women\’s Fundraising Division of United Jewish Fund (UJF). She was its chairperson about 40 years ago, and she still attends regular strategy meetings for former chairs.
Anya Karlin has been fascinated with opera since the age of 4, when she was invited to join the cast of \”Madame Butterfly.\” At 10, while performing in a Chanukah concert, she discovered the joys of singing in Yiddish.
When Becca Yuré turned 13, her enthusiasm for pandas became the focus of her Bat Mitzvah celebration.
Anne Roberts is passionate about the idea of tzedakah, a concept she has diligently instilled in her son Spencer Nieman.
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