Jason Flom is a music executive who is known for discovering Katy Perry and Lorde and for launching the careers of iconic artists including Matchbox Twenty and Kid Rock. A longtime JCF fundholder, Flom is also a dedicated advocate for criminal justice reform. He is a founding board member of the Innocence Project and serves…
A wave of more than 630 wildfires has spread throughout Israel in recent days, injuring 180 people and burning down 560 homes. Nearly 100,000 Israelis have been evacuated; in Haifa, hundreds of apartments were destroyed completely, leaving more than 1,000 people without homes. Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority reported that more than 4,900 acres of…
After Hurricane Matthew made landfall on October 4, 2016, Haiti — which is still struggling to rebuild after the 2010 earthquake left more than 200,000 people dead and many homeless — is in a state of emergency. More than 900 people have been killed and tens of thousands have been displaced. Below are several charitable…
When Eve Goldberg’s son Isaac passed away a little over two years ago from an accidental overdose from opioids, she knew she wanted to do something meaningful and charitable in his memory. “My dream was to create a sober clubhouse, a community where young adults in recovery participate in fun activities,” she said. Her parents…
In addition to JCF’s $2 million gift to UJA-Federation of NY, its Special Gifts Fund is providing funds to kosher food pantries, a groundbreaking Holocaust education program and Jewish day camp scholarships. Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country, approved grants totaling $737,400 to local Jewish…