Students take holiday to heart as part of Hanukkah toy drive This was the 13th year that the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life at Binghamton University has coordinated the college-led effort for sick children, dubbed “light up a life.” Faygie Holt Dec. 10, 2021
Michigan Holocaust museum receives $15 million gift, single largest in its history “This major donation will enable us to expand the important work we do to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and confront anti-Semitism and hatred,” said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. Dec. 8, 2021
Prominent political fundraiser endows DC-area Chabad center in her father’s memory Lisa Spies and her husband, attorney Charlie Spies, donated religious items to a new Chabad center in Northern Virginia in memory of neurosurgeon Dr. Shelley Wernick. Dmitriy Shapiro June 24, 2021
American Associates of Ben-Gurion University honors $650 million fundraiser Philip Gomperts, a major fundraiser for the university in the Negev and a friend of Howard and Lottie Marcus, who themselves gave $400 million after initially investing with Warren Buffett, believes that the future of Israel lies in the desert. Faygie Holt April 22, 2021
The urgency of communal responsibility has never been greater The goal of the Jewish Future Pledge is to create an influx of financial resources to benefit the entire landscape of Jewish organizations. David Brown March 5, 2021
Tulane University’s Jewish-studies department receives anonymous $2 million gift “We are honored to be able to endow Tulane’s chair in contemporary Jewish studies,” said the donors, parents of a recent Tulane graduate. “It embodies Jewish and universal values so important to the humanities in shaping and inspiring the future.” March 5, 2020
Jewish woman marks 50th birthday by donating kidney to Jewish mother in need Elissa Wald, a former resident of New York, was inspired to give her kidney to someone in need after hearing a speech from a rabbi. Oct. 8, 2019
Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, gets lung transplant Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s wife, Nechama, 73, received a new lung after being matched with a donor: 19-year-old Yair Yehezkel Halabli, who drowned on Friday while diving in Eilat. March 11, 2019
