‘Are you a Jew?’ To serve on a synagogue board, increasingly the answer can be ‘no’
As more non-Jews join synagogue boards, more congregations are asking whether they should be considered for other leadership roles
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Life The Art of Goysplaining
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman The other day at work, I got goysplained. Let me back up. In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote her seminal essay, “Men Explain Things To Me.” In the essay, Solnit relates a story where she went to a party and mentioned that she had been writing about the famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge….
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News Non-Jewish Charities Typically Pay Their Leaders Less Than Jewish Organizations
By Josh Nathan-Kazis Think the top Jewish not-for-profit executives in the Forward’s 2013 salary survey are overpaid? Their colleagues at non-Jewish charitable institutions might agree with you. According to an independent analysis of the Forward’s annual survey of national Jewish not-for-profits, Jewish executives are paid more generously than executives of comparable non-Jewish charities. The analysis…
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Breaking News Reform Movement Sells Half of Headquarters to Invest $1M in Youth Programs
The Union for Reform Judaism has sold off half of its headquarters in New York and is investing $1 million from the proceeds to overhaul its youth programming. The sale of one of the union’s two floors at its midtown Manhattan headquarters closed on Wednesday; Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the movement’s president, announced the sale in…
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Culture Non-Jews Hit by ‘Jewish’ Diseases Fall Through the Cracks of Genetic Screening
For three days in April, about 70 families whose lives have been upended by Tay-Sachs disease gathered in San Diego for the annual National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases conference. The event — which attracted families caring for children with Tay-Sachs, as well as those who have lost loved ones to the degenerative disease that claims…
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