(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot cancelled her appearance at an awards dinner honoring director and producer Brett Ratner. Gadot, best known as the star of “Wonder Woman,” was scheduled to present the Tree of Life Award to Ratner at a Jewish National Fund dinner Sunday in Hollywood. She backed out of the dinner, for…
The Jewish National Fund appears to have pushed back its deadline for two top executives to return $700,000 in loans they received from the organization. Following a Forward exposé and a letter from the New York State Attorney General, the JNF announced that its chief executive officer and chief financial officer would pay back the…
The relationship between the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Keren Kayemeth L’yisrael (KKL) was the topic of a recent “expose” in these pages. It seems that direct support by JNF for KKL’s activities in Israel has hit an all-time low of 1%. The article implied that this represents some sort of aberration or departure from…
I have never had to justify the good works of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), but as a result of an article printed in these pages called ”Quietly Going Its Own Way, JNF Cuts Off Its Israeli Parent,” I feel compelled to do so. I am a part of a large national family of lay…
The Jewish National Fund’s explanation of why its CEO is returning a $525,000 loan he took from the organization omits the key fact that the New York State Attorney General demanded he repay the money. Instead, in an August 2 email to a concerned donor, JNF claimed that its CEO and the CFO, who also…
Before the founding of the State of Israel, American Jews dropped their nickels and dimes into the blue charity boxes of Jewish National Fund to help Zionist settlers make a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Their coins bought the land and founded the settlements on which the modern state of Israel was built. A century later,…
In the one story published by the Forward last week about (now former) White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, we didn’t cuss. We didn’t have to. The story was about a biblical reference to Cain and Abel that Scaramucci made on CNN, the closest we came to a Jewish angle of the R-rated reality show…
One of the American Jewish community’s most iconic charities appears to have broken New York state law by loaning its CEO over $500,000 to help him buy property. Known for its ubiquitous blue-and-white charity boxes, present in virtually every American synagogue and Hebrew school for generations, Jewish National Fund is a major American Zionist organization…
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