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Mickey Gitzin, the interim CEO of the New Israel Fund. (Courtesy NIF via JTA)
January 21, 2026, 3:27 am
Dismissing nationalists and anti-Zionists, NIF’s interim CEO champions liberal democracy
Mickey Gitzin steps up to helm the New Israel Fund, an established but fast-growing NGO navigating the tricky progressive, pro-Israel terrain post-October 7
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Record producer David Foster, left, and entertainment executive Haim Saban speak onstage at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Western Region Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, November 1, 2018. (Shahar Azran/Getty Images via JTA)
August 22, 2025, 4:29 pm
After leadership shakeup, FIDF sticks to its guns on claim it is IDF’s sole US fundraiser
The group says it’s the only US charity authorized to raise money for Israeli soldiers – but the military won’t confirm it, and other groups have their own official endorsements
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
IDF soldiers operate in Gaza in a handout photo published July 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 13, 2025, 9:52 pm
London Chabad chastised by British authorities over fundraiser for IDF soldier
UK law forbids charities raising money for foreign militaries; Chabad house says commission’s decision ‘regrettable,’ but doesn’t dispute it, says it won’t happen again
By JTA
A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)
October 16, 2024, 3:25 pm
Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community
The tax authority’s revocation of charitable status for JNF Canada and others has reverberated inside and outside the country – though the motives behind it are disputed
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Volunteers at the Oregon Food Bank, 2023. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
July 21, 2024, 3:26 am
When Portland charities condemned Israel, Jewish philanthropy was put to the test
After Oct. 7, groups have issued strident and one-sided statements on the war in Gaza, causing local Jews to reconsider longstanding relationships – regardless of optics
By Andrew Lapin
MK Moshe Gafni leads a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, which he chairs, on October 23, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
October 26, 2023, 3:34 pm
Brothers in Arms protest group okayed for tax break after shifting to aid mission
Knesset Finance Committee head Moshe Gafni sets aside tension with group that tried to torpedo judicial overhaul, force Haredi draft as it now scrambles to help those hurt by war
By Sue Surkes
Einstein Admony, Adeena Sussman, Ben Siman Tov, Lior Sercarz, Jake Cohen and Eden Grinshpan, at a fundraising effort for Asif, the Jewish Food and Culinary Institute of Israel in Tel Aviv, which is providing meals and food for displaced families and hospital workers in Israel. (Courtesy: Jake Cohen)
October 26, 2023, 1:10 am
Israeli and Jewish-owned restaurants in the US are raising money for Hamas victims
From food drives to military gear and pledge drives to auctions, the causes and means of fundraising for them are as varied as the establishments taking part in grassroots efforts
By Cathryn J. Prince
A woman takes out an aid package from an electric car owned by the Jewish Federations of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of Ukraine/ via JTA)
August 13, 2022, 9:37 am
In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars as fuel crisis hinders aid delivery
As costs of food, medicine and gasoline rise along with the number of recipients who require them, humanitarian groups maximize efficiency ahead of what they see as a long haul
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Clockwise from the top: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (Erik McGregor/ LightRocket via Getty Images), Rabbi Jill Jacobs (courtesy, Jill Jacobs), Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (Michael Brochstein/ SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty Images). Background: Demonstrators gather at the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem with flags of Israel during the controversial Flag March, organized by Israeli right-wing nationalists on June 15, 2021. (Ilia Yefimovich/ picture alliance via Getty Images. All photos via JTA)
April 11, 2022, 3:09 am
Rabbis go public with plea to cut off US Jewish funding of Israeli extremists
After rebuff, 19 clergy publicize letter to donor-advised Jewish Communal Fund asking it to stop support to Lehava group associated with far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir
By Asaf Shalev
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