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Why Jewish giving to Israel is losing ground
- American Jews donate at high levels to charity.
One way they support causes in the U.S., Israel and other places is collective, often through large grant-making organizations.
- Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim
- The Conversation
In researching this organized philanthropy, I’ve observed that the proportion of Jewish institutional giving to Israeli causes has fallen since 2009.
I believe that several factors, including demographic and social changes, a diminishing perception of Israel as being in need and concerns over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have probably been…
More recently, Israel’s increasingly conservative policies on…