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This 2020 archive of news articles features some of it!

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We also have an archive of articles from 2021 and 2022.

• Morning Run Memorials. Memories.

  By Robert Bank, President and CEO of American Jewish World Service (eJewish Philanthropy) December 8, 2020

• Movement, Year Two

  By Jamie Allen Black, CEO, and Rachel Weinstein, President of Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York (eJewish Philanthropy) December 4, 2020

• Jews rallied behind immigrants under Trump. Will they stop once Biden is president? 

  By Arno Rosenfeld, featuring Eddie Chavez Calderon, Campaign Organizer at Uri L’Tzedek and Melanie Nezer, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at HIAS (The Forward) November 30, 2020

• When One Parent Leaves a Hasidic Community, What Happens to the Kids?

  By Larissa MacFarquhar, featuring Footsteps (The New Yorker) November 30, 2020

• How Trump and Netanyahu made American antisemitism come alive

  By Libby Lenkinski, Vice President for Public Engagement of New Israel Fund (+972 Magazine) November 18, 2020

• From Iran sanctions to asylum restrictions, here’s what Jews are watching in Trump’s chaotic lame-duck period

  By Melanie Nezer, Senior Vice President of HIAS (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) November 13, 2020

• Thankful. Hopeful. Exhausted: How Jews are feeling and what they’re wishing for in Biden presidency

  By The Forward staff, featuring many Roundtable affiliate Staff (The Forward) November 6, 2020

• Southern workers mobilize to ensure that every vote is counted

  By Rebekah Barber, featuring Rabbi Salem Pearce, Executive Director of Carolina Jews for Justice (Facing South) November 5, 2020

• Dovish Jewish groups rap Trump for false victory call, urge all votes be counted

  By Jacob Magid, featuring Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of T’ruah (Times of Israel) November 4, 2020

• As Election Day drags into Election Week, the waiting is the hardest part

  By Mark Fisher, featuring Rabbi Salem Pearce, Executive Director of Carolina Jews for Justice (The Washington Post) November 4, 2020

• With Trump and Biden battling still, American Jews grapple with profound political shifts

  By Ron Kampeas, featuring Sheila Katz, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) November 4, 2020

• No matter who becomes president, American Jews fear bigotry and division will endure

  By Ben Sales, featuring Rabbi Salem Pearce, Executive Director of Carolina Jews for Justice (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) November 4, 2020

• Election Reflection for Teens – and for all of us

  By Rabbi Tamara Cohen Bernstein, VP and Chief of Program Strategy at Moving Traditions (eJewish Philanthropy) November 3, 2020

• Funding Jewish Advocacy in a Crazy World

  By David Bernstein, President and CEO of Jewish Council for Public Affairs (eJewish Philanthropy) October 30, 2020

• Mourning, Recovering and Rebuilding

  By Rabbi Deborah Waxman, President of Reconstructing Judaism, and Seth Rosen, Chair of Reconstructing Judaism’s board of governors (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) October 27, 2020

• Secular Education in Hasidic Yeshivas is a Jewish Issue

  By Naftuli Moster, Executive Director of YAFFED (eJewish Philanthropy) October 26, 2020

• Be’chol Lashon: Combating Racism, Celebrating Diversity

  Featuring new Roundtable partner Be’chol Lashon (eJewish Philanthropy) October 2, 2020

• The Fragility and Isolation of Home

  Co-authored by Deborah Rosenbloom, Chief Program Officer of Jewish Women International (eJewish Philanthropy) October 1, 2020

• The Essential Nature of Spiritual Community

  By Rabbi Nate DeGrootis the Associate Director, Spiritual & Program Director at Hazon Detroit (eJewish Philanthropy) September 29, 2020

• HeshbonHeshvan #JewishClergySelfCare

  Co-authored by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, Executive Director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and Rabbi Ilana Garber, Director of Global Rabbinic Development for the Rabbinical Assembly (eJewish Philanthropy) September 29, 2020

• Who by fire?’ isn’t just a metaphor this year — but we still have time to change course

  By Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder and CEO of Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) September 19, 2020

• How I Keep Calm: Super Mario Bros

  By Shuli Karkowsky, Executive Vice President at Hazon (Alma) September 16, 2020

• What We're Hearing from the Field

  Co-authored by JSJR’s Executive Director, Abby Levine (eJewish Philanthropy) September 14, 2020

• Jewish Organizations Must Address the Pandemic Parenting Gender Gap

  Co-authored by Rabbi Hara Person, Chief Executive for the Central Conference of American Rabbis (eJewish Philanthropy) September 14, 2020

• Close Your Office On November 3rd

  By Meredith Jacobs, CEO of Jewish Women International (eJewish Philanthropy) September 13, 2020

• Pivots: Positive and Candid Stories from the Field

  Co-authored by Judy Levey Executive Director of JCUA (eJewish Philanthropy) September 9, 2020

• The Unfinished Work of the 19th Amendment

  By Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women (eJewish Philanthropy) August 26, 2020

• When Women Have a Seat and a Voice at the Table

  By Cyd Weissman, Vice-President, Innovation and Impact, at Reconstructing Judaism (eJewish Philanthropy) August 24, 2020

• Lessons Learned from Mentoring Jews of Color 

  By April Baskin, JSJR Racial Justice Director and Abby Levine, Executive Director of JSJR (eJewish Philanthropy) August 16, 2020

• Jewish leaders: This year’s High Holidays need a new approach

  By Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg, COO of the Rabbinical Assembly (The Times of Israel) August 12, 2020

• Trauma, Healing & Resilience for Rabbis, Jewish Educators and Organizers

  By Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, National Organizer for Bend the Arc (eJewish Philanthropy) August 11, 2020