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Blog entries tagged: Recession

JDC, Jewish Agency mull more cuts

The North American Jewish federation system’s overseas partners are warning of a brewing financial crisis facing the organized Jewish community in the former Soviet Union.

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Crawling out from under the rock of day-school tuition

Publicist rails in The New York Jewish Week about against the high cost of day-school tuition.

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AJWS gives out $3.2 million, slight decline from last year this time

The American Jewish World Service announced Tuesday that it was giving out $3.2 million in new grants.

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Is Madoff a reason for the decline of Jewish newspapers? Ish don’t think so

New York Jewish Week editor says Madoff is in part reason for industry decline. The Fundermentalist doesn’t think so. 

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HUC dean says calamity is upon us, Fundermentalist says: ‘Not so fast’

Steven Windmueller, the dean of the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and its chair of Jewish communal service, has a lengthy outline of what he sees as the impact of the economic downturn on the Jewish communal landscape. The Fundermentalist offers a potentially more optimistic view of what the future could hold.

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Weinberg foundation to give out $100 million each of the next two years

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced Wednesday that it would give out more than $200 million over the next two years, including some $21 million in new grants over that time period.

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N.Y. federation campaign falls 11 percent

The country’s largest Jewish federation announced that its 2008-09 fund-raising campaign dropped 11.5 percent from the previous year.

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UJC: Campaign pledges are down

The UJC has new numbers showing that federation fund raising held steady in 2008-2009, but pledges so far this year are down.

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Fundermentalist in Contact

Check out the latest edition of Contact magazine, the quarterly publication of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life.

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