This article originally appeared on eJewishphilanthropy and is reprinted with permission. A recent article on this site (“Innovation Isn’t Dead, It’s Working”) raised concerns that last year’s merger of Hazon with the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center has sparked casual conversations about the end of the innovation era. The authors of that post, my colleagues Lisa…
When Jumpstart published The Jewish Innovation Economy, the landmark survey of the Jewish innovation space, the editors, Joshua Avedon and Shawn Landres, included any organization founded between 2000-2010 in the survey. Their intent was not to capture all manifestations of Jewish innovation, or to assert that innovation as a phenomenon was or should be confined to…
Walk into the office of Rafi Musher, a successful entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Stax Inc., a global strategy consulting firm, and you will be greeted by a gleaming red Moto Guzzi motorcycle – one of three motorcycles in his collection. He’s passionate about his bikes, and even more so about his…
Guest post by Lisa Lepson (Joshua Venture Group) and Will Schneider (Slingshot) Toward the end of 2012 the central organization in the Jewish environmental movement, Hazon, merged with the more than 100-year old Jewish project, Isabella Freedman. The linking of an organization that has been identified in the Slingshot guide as a “Standard Bearer of…
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear someone say, “We don’t think what we are doing is particularly ‘sexy’; do I still have a shot at being involved with your organization?” You would think I was a modeling agent, but no, I’m a Jewish professional. Since there are very few jewrotica.org’s out there, “sexy” must…