I recently returned from Israel, where I was helping finalize a new strategic plan for Israel's largest and most historic national nonprofit, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). Since we allocate funds every year from our annual campaign, I’m motivated to help JAFI get as much focus as po…
A Fresh Portrait of Jewish Cincinnati. Last week, more than 300 members of our community gathered to hear the results of the 2019 Cincinnati Jewish Community Study—our first in more than a decade. You could have heard a pin drop. Except when people asked great questions. I am so encouraged…
Barb Miller, Director of Community Building, retired in December from the Jewish Fed…
“Our hope is to build one of the most welcoming, innovative, and vibrant Jewish communities in America,” said Bret Caller, President of The Jewish F…
Who is Jewish Cincinnati? In January, we will roll out the results of our 2019 Jewish Community Study. For the first time in more than a decade, this study will give us a fresh portrait of our community, including where we live, how we engage Jewishly, and much more. Our hope is to build one…
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“Do Something.” In a year that has seen more mass shootings than days, we can sometimes feel numb to news of another. However, the violence in Dayton last weekend reached us. We heard that as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine spoke at a vigil in Dayton, the crowd chanted, “Do something.”
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Like most in my generation, I grew up believing that antisemitism persisted in some parts of the world but that we had left it behind in America. So it was disorienting when I testified this week in the sentencing hearing for a man convicted of a violent antisemitic attack in the heart of ou…
