JFNA Names Elana Broitman to Lead Jewish Communities' Public Affairs Work

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

‘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…

On Racial Justice, We Can All Do Better

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…

Yom HaShoah: A Day to Remember, A Day to Make a Difference

We ended last week with the news that $350 billion in small business loans offered through the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act had been exhausted. The announcement of the availability of these funds, just two weeks before, was welcome news and we are hopeful that rum…

Passover and Doing Jewish Together

B’chol dor vador chayav adam lirot et atzmo k’ilu hu yatza mimitzrayim. In every generation, each Jew should regard themselves as if they personally came out of Egypt.

When we read these words in the Haggadah—as we will this week in Jewish homes all over the world—we usually take it…