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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Jay Ruderman

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CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer at the Spivack gymnasium in Ramat Gan, playing basketball as part of the Israel Unlimited partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation and Israeli government to empower Israelis with disabilities, February 2018. (JDC)
February 26, 2021, 5:50 am
The Jewish world’s biggest donor to disability inclusion is pulling its funding
Some worry as the Ruderman Foundation begins to redirect funds after 18 years of successful activism — though experts say more diverse sources could be beneficial in the long run
By Asaf Shalev
Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 7:54 pm
Minister: I didn’t mean to hurt world Jewry with Holocaust intermarriage remark
Rafi Peretz tells Jewish Agency chief his comment lamenting intermarriage rates ‘probably was not proper,’ says he respects Diaspora Jews
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Rafi Peretz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2019, 11:53 pm
Israel’s education minister: Intermarriage among US Jews ‘like second Holocaust’
ADL chief says Rafi Peretz’s remark ‘trivializes the Shoah’; Israel-Diaspora activist group calls Israeli discourse about US Jews ‘irresponsible and disrespectful’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Culture Minister Miri Regev at the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 28, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 11, 2019, 2:05 pm
Culture minister said to douse Independence Day Diaspora torch
Weeks before election, Regev reportedly backtracks on her 2017 decision to include world Jewry in annual event; critics of her move note that foreign Jews don’t vote
By ToI Staff
Director of the Ruderman Family Foundation Shira Ruderman. (Noam Galay)
February 26, 2019, 6:28 am
Woman in a man’s world: Ruderman says bold action will save Israel-Diaspora ties
The director of a multi-million dollar foundation since her early 20s says it’s time to rip the Band-Aid off worldwide Jewry’s fraught relationship and get to work rebuilding it
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A trainer attends to New York Yankees' Luis Cessa, center, after he was injured on a play at first base during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
February 11, 2019, 12:17 am
Jewish group convinced MLB to change ‘disabled list’ to ‘injured list’
Ruderman Family Foundation, an advocacy group, campaigned for the name change for months, saying it creates an incorrect stereotype about the disabled
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative image of Women of the Wall group praying at the women's section of the Western Wall, Sunday, June 25, 2017. (Michal Fattal/Courtesy Women of the Wall)
June 30, 2017, 10:58 pm
Major US Jewish philanthropists decry Western Wall backtrack, conversion bill
Activists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople take out ads in Hebrew dailies calling for Israeli pluralism, tolerance
By ToI Staff
Marlee Matlin, an Oscar-winning actress who is deaf and Jewish, receiving the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Tel Aviv from Jay Ruderman, June 19, 2017. (Courtesy/Erez Uzir)
June 22, 2017, 3:32 pm
Actress Marlee Matlin teaches tolerance — and how to sign ‘Tel Aviv’ — during Israel tour
The Oscar winner, the recipient of a prestigious award from the Ruderman Foundation, explains how Judaism stresses inclusion
By Yaakov Schwartz
Jay Ruderman, left, with R.J. Mitte, an actor with cerebral palsy who starred on the hit TV show “Breaking Bad.” (Courtesy of the Ruderman Family Foundation via JTA)
April 11, 2017, 1:14 pm
Ruderman Family Foundation expands disability work beyond Jewish world
Foundation targeting Hollywood, the media and major industries to try make a greater impact for those with special needs
By JTA
Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)
September 26, 2016, 9:01 pm
US Jews ‘more pro-choice than pro-Israel,’ new study says
Ruderman Family Foundation report finds most American Jews solidly support Jewish state, but are more invested in their liberal identity
By Eric Cortellessa
It will be difficult to provide the feeling of summer camp while social distancing, but camps are pivoting to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak. (Courtesy the Foundation for Jewish Camp/via JTA)
April 8, 2016, 9:15 am
Jewish camps, schools urged to adopt policies to fight sex abuse
Philanthropists, organizations pledge they will only fund institutions taking ‘adequate steps to prevent, report, investigate sexual abuse of minors’
By JTA
Former US senator Joe Lieberman speaking in the Knesset, November 23, 2015 (Yirmiyahu Vann)
November 24, 2015, 4:18 pm
Joe Lieberman: US-Israel relations about to become ‘very productive’
Obama ‘not punitive,’ and many Democrats who backed Iran deal now eager to show support for Israel, says former vice presidential candidate
By Raphael Ahren
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