It’s been three weeks since our General Assembly in Washington, D.C., although it already seems like months. In that time, we’ve seen an increase in hateful acts here at home, from language shouted on streets and college campuses, to swastikas painted on synagogue walls, to vandalism tar…
Gangs of young people are roaming the streets of Riga, Latvia determined to help right past wrongs. They go around the city knocking on doors of elderly Jews. Having witnessed the Holocaust or Soviet oppression, the eyes that come to the peephole have already seen it all, and they look dow…
Yechiya Ya’akov Dahari’s family kept the Torah in Yemen even under the most trying of circumstances. A metal worker who raised nine children through poverty and prejudice, he felt he was tough enough to handle the deteriorating conditions. But when kidnappings and attacks became a dail…
The stage at Federation partner JDC’s social welfare center in Moscow stretches from Russia to Lithuania, from the 1800’s to today.
On it, students from the state-of-the-art ORT Moscow Technology School—run by Federation beneficiary World ORT—are transformed into amateur Jewish acto…
I traveled to Israel to join tens of thousands of people who gathered to mourn the loss of Shimon Peres, z"l. Federations are privileged to have had such a longstanding relationship with this iconic visionary. May his memory be a blessing.
Watch my reflections below.
Jerry Silverman i…
