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NYL Summer Mission to Israel Is Underway

A 20% growth spurt! That’s how many more participants are on the National Young Leadership Summer Mission to Israel. Yesterday, the 100 participants from 19 communities engaged with Israelis from all walks of life —at Federation-funded JDC and Jewish Agency initiatives supporting women, …

Kotel and Conversion Bill Update

JFNA is hopeful that all involved parties will continue to work together to make progress on the Kotel resolution and conversions in Israel.

Further reading:

An on-the-ground view of the week's negotiations over the Western Wall agreement and the conversion bill in Israel. 

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Advocacy Still Needed to Reject Senate Healthcare Bill

Good news! Senate vote on new healthcare bill postponed with your help. Still needed: Your advocacy to avoid dramatic cuts to Medicaid, from which Federation providers receive $6B annually. Learn more, then use this sample letter and talking points to urge your senator to reject the …

Soundtrack of Destruction: Recovering the Music of the Holocaust

Clive Marks was distraught. A lecturer on music in the Third Reich and patron of the arts in England, he found he couldn’t write about music of the era without knowing more about the history of that time. Some told him it was all history and he should let it go, but he couldn’t, not whil…