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Amplifier Introduces the Jewish Giving Circle Incubator Participants

Amplifier is excited to announce the 37 stellar community-builders who will participate in this year’s Jewish Giving Circle Incubator. The Incubator will support these participants as they start brand-new giving circles and act on their visions to create change through giving. Read more

Exhibit honors how St. John Paul changed Catholic-Jewish relations

Helping to inaugurate an exhibit at the Vatican, the chief rabbi of Rome noted just how much "times have changed."

"Seeing in St. Peter's Square the banner announcing the exhibit with an image of a pope -- that's normal -- but a pope shaking hands with a rabbi? That's not normal. It's a sig…

Five community leaders receive Dick Weiland Community Relations Award

The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) recently honored five honorees of the inaugural Dick Weiland Community Relations Award: Bret Caller, Anne Heldman, Damon Lynch Jr., Francie Hiltz and the Rumpke family. They were recognized at the organization's 76th Annual Meeting June 8 for the…

John Isidor and Sandy Kaltman honored with the Voices of Giving award

John Isidor and Sandy Kaltman were among 27 philanthropists honored by the Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council recently with Voices of Giving Awards. The Awards were presented on behalf of a nonprofit organization that has benefited from their selfless generosity in contributing a bequ…

June 2015 Jewish Agency Assembly and Board of Governors (BOG) Meetings

2015 is being called the year of Aliyah. This year, 30,000 olim (new immigrants) from across the world are expected in Israel, the most in any one year since the late 1990s. This total includes large spikes in numbers from Ukraine, Russia and France. 

More than 90 leaders of Federations pa…