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The issues, stories, and people changing the world in philanthropy and the Jewish community. If you like "What Gives?" be sure to check out "Outside the Tzedakah Box" (https://honeycomb.org/podcast-outside-tzedakah-box/) a podcast on Jewish youth philanthropy from JFN's…
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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl - Heart of a Stranger (opens the original)
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Episode 85 of What Gives?—the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York and author of the New York Times Best Seller Heart of a Stranger. Rabbi Buchdahl leads one of the most influential pulpits in the country. In this episode, she talks about what it takes to lead a community through a moment this divided. She and Andrés talk ab
Eric Goldstein - Lessons From a Decade of Crisis Leadership (opens the original)
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Episode 84 of What Gives?—the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Eric Goldstein, who, after more than twelve years at the helm of the largest local Jewish charity in the world, is stepping down this fall as CEO of UJA-Federation of New York. Eric came to the role by an unusual path, spending thirty-one years as a litigator before he ever sat behind a federation desk, and he arrived already
Jonathan Gottschall - How Story Makes a People (opens the original)
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Episode 83 of What Gives?—the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Jonathan Gottschall, literary scholar and author of The Storytelling Animal. Jonathan has spent his career studying why human beings are wired for narrative, which he explored with attendees in a fascinating keynote at this year's JFN Conference in San Diego. In this conversation, Andrés and Jonathan explore the idea that we a
Mark Tooley - What Jews Should Know About Christians in America (opens the original)
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Episode 82 of What Gives?—the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion & Democracy and editor of the journal Providence, who has spent decades thinking and writing about the relationship between Christianity, democracy, and American public life. In this conversation, Andrés and Mark set out to do something that too rarely happens: offer Jews, an
David Bryfman - Why Your Kids Don't Feel the Way You Do About Israel (opens the original)
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Episode 81 of What Gives?—the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Dr. David Bryfman, CEO of The Jewish Education Project and author of the new book Heroism and Hope: Recharging Israel Education in a Post-October 7 World. David and Andrés ask whether October 7 genuinely changed Jewish education or simply forced into the open questions many educators had been wrestling with privately. David ma
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