By Michael Staenberg
• Published December 31, 2020
My father, Marty Staenberg, was a role model and inspiration. He taught me to work hard for what I wanted and never to forget that no matter what I earn, part of it should go to tzedakah, to helping others. It is a lesson that has served me well throughout...
Ring ring. Ring ring. Hi, this is Jane. I am calling today as a Super Sunday Volunteer on behalf of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Thank you for your past support of our Annual Campaign. Last year you pledged $X, can we count on you for $X this year?...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 8, 2017
The idea came to him one night recently. Russel Neiss was talking to a friend and colleague, Rabbi Charlie Schwartz of Cambridge, Mass., about the executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, which...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- When she took the stage recently before an audience of 400 Jewish camping enthusiasts, Lenore Skenazy wasted no time in addressing why she is known as “America’s Worst Mom.” The author of a 2008 column in The New York Times...
B’nai Tzedek is enrolling new participants for the teen philanthropy program, which aims empowers teens to improve the world by launching them on a personal and engaged relationship to life-long Jewish giving. B’nai Tzedek will hold an introductory...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2011
Three years or more of a bad economy have tested nonprofit organizations in a time of high demand for their services while the money and other resources they need to operate have been harder to find. Yet non-profit leaders and university instructors agree...
By Dan Klein, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published August 17, 2011
A generational changing of the guard throughout North America's largest Jewish charitable network is opening the door to new chief executives increasingly open to experimenting with changes to the century-old funding model favored by local federations.In...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 1, 2010
The small lump on Roydell Mondaine's right arm isn't easy to spot but it's visible if you look closely. It's where a 9-mm round has remained lodged since 1982, a last reminder of the time when Mondaine, three days before her birthday, found herself hanging...
The Jewish Family & Children's Service (JF&CS) reminds the community that the annual High Holiday food drive to benefit the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry will be held between Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot (Sept. 8 to Oct. 1). This is the agency's...
