Julie Platt is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and serves as Chair of the Foundation for Jewish Camp.
On Thursday, December 3, a group of Ethiopian olim landed in Israel. We join the Government of Israel and The Jewish Agency for Israel in celebrating this historic event and welcoming this group of olim to their homeland. Helping Ethiopians and other Jews worldwide come home to Israel is one…
I’m Eric Fingerhut, President & CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America. I am proud to represent the 146 Jewish Federations and nearly 300 network communities who are individually the largest Jewish communal and charitable institutions in each of their communities and are…
We are pleased to welcome Elana Broitman as the Jewish communities’ top advocate and head of public affairs. As Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Ms. Broitman will lead the Jewish Federations' work to engage all the elements of our civil society in helping support vibrant and healt…
‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). We will never forget the spring of COVID-19. We lost loved ones. We closed our schools and businesses. Millions of people became unemployed.
But we have also seen remarkable resilience and…
The past few weeks have been heart-wrenching. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have peacefully taken to the streets to vent their anger over the death of George Floyd and call for racial justice in America.
Major American cities enacted curfews, and states of emergency were declared. Ami…
