Oz Pearlman, who won third place on Season 10 of “America’s Got Talent” as a mind reader, was supposed to run an ultramarathon in North Carolina last weekend. But he had to drop out at the 11th hour because of work. Disappointed, the endurance athlete and professional mentalist found a different outlet for his energy….
The nation’s largest Jewish anti-poverty charity is warning that more government funding is needed to provide meals to struggling New Yorkers who keep kosher or eat only halal foods. “The sad reality is that kosher and halal emergency food is underfunded in New York,” said David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council. “Simply put that…
Forget the check book or credit card. Next time you make a donation to your favorite Jewish charity, consider doing it with Bitcoin. As cryptocurrencies and blockchain become more and more integrated into mainstream commerce, Jewish nonprofits are now accepting donations with digital currency. Cryptocurrencies are not new to philanthropy; large and small nonprofits have…
When Bernie Madoff was arrested in December of 2008, the panic in the Jewish philanthropic world was palpable. “We are shocked at this revelation,” Yeshiva University said at the time to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. It had lost $100 million. “This one just leaves me breathless,” Mort Zuckerman told NPR. He lost $30 million. “I…
T’ruah, a nonprofit that trains Jewish clergy to work on human rights campaigns, has a somewhat unusual funding structure. A third of its annual revenue— about $1.4 million in 2018, according to tax filings — comes from foundations, which normally make up a larger portion for Jewish organizations of its size. The rest comes from…
In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein, a financier and philanthropist, pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor and registered as a sex offender. In 2017, one of the biggest Jewish charities in America accepted a $50,000 donation from him. In 2019, Epstein was accused of new sex trafficking charges. Now what? That charity, UJA-Federation of New…
A different version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. I’ll admit it. I got excited along with the rest of the country when the Mega Millions lottery hit a whopping $1.6 billion jackpot in October of this year. I bought a ticket and enjoyed an overly long conversation with my wife…
A delegation of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jewish leaders from New York and California visited Salt Lake City in March 2018. Guided by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they toured the Church’s welfare facilities and the newly renovated Jordan River Utah Temple (Mormon temples are opened to the public briefly…
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