Q: At what age should we teach children about differences? A: As early as possible! Lara Mendel was inspired to found The Mosaic Project, where she serves as the Co-Founder and Executive Director, after seeing the concentration camps in Germany where her family...
Is climate change a Jewish issue? For Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder & CEO of Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, the answer is yes. Jennie is building a multi-generational movement of American Jews that confronts the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and...
Dr. Analucía Lopezrevoredo is a Peruvian-Chilean-American Jewtina, born in Lima, Peru and raised in Madrid, Spain and Orange County, California. She is a sociologist and scholar of Jewish and Latin American migration. In 2019, Analucía founded Jewtina y Co., an...
Sarah Levin works with Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews to explore, preserve, protect, and share their heritage, identities, and experiences. The marginalization of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews from mainstream American Jewish life has left American Jews with a narrow view of...
New York (November 3, 2022) — You might have noticed that things look a little different around here. At our fourth annual Convening of activists, philanthropists and leaders, we were excited to announce that we have renamed ourselves, and that we are moving...
Making a Difference By Avra Gordis A few days ago, I had the privilege of representing The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York at a WePower event entitled 50-50 by 2030 in Tel Aviv. WePower is a non-profit organization in Israel that works to facilitate the...
Karyn Grossman Gershon has been working with Jewish women in the Former Soviet Union since 1994. With Karyn at the helm, Project Kesher and the leaders they train have been at the forefront of the struggle to improve the rights, status, and quality of life for women...
New York (June 24, 2022) — The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York (JWFNY) strongly condemns today’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, holding that there is no longer a right to abortion under the federal constitution. Access to safe, affordable,...
Published: June 8, 2022 Editor’s Note: The following opinion piece is from Jamie Allen Black, CEO of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York, in response to a recent opinion piece from Jeannie Infante Sager. As Jeannie Infante Sager, director of the Women’s...
