ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published February 18, 2022
A generous St. Louis donor who wishes to remain anonymous is helping to fund technology that will create an interactive, accessible and autonomous experience for visitors with visual impairments at many of Israel’s museums.
With support for the...
(JTA) — The group that made blue collection boxes ubiquitous in the collective Jewish American memory is now accepting donations in a format fit for the digital age: bitcoin.
A charity with roots that go back to the start of modern Zionism,...
Jewish National Fund (JNF-USA) will host a Lawyers for Israel event on Thursday, Nov. 7 at Husch Blackwell, 190 Carondelet Plaza, Suite 600. This complimentary event will begin promptly at 11:30 a.m., with registration opening at 11, and will feature...
By Russell F. Robinson, JTA
• Published March 1, 2012
NEW YORK -- The Jewish National Fund plants trees, builds a nation and unifies a people. As a child growing up in a small town in Texas, I dropped my coins in the Blue Box in Hebrew school. My parents and grandparents raised me on the importance and...
An Israeli tourist charged by Chile with accidentally starting a massive forest fire in a popular national park has been fined and released. Rotem Singer was ordered by a court in Puerto Natalesto pay a $10,000 fine to the government of Chile, and to...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 12, 2011
Air Force 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte of St. Louis, who was killed in action in Afghanistan on May 20, 2009, will be memorialized on the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) Wall of Honor at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. The Wall of Honor stands as a tribute to the...
