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…

• Why Jewish giving…