Julie Platt is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and serves as Chair of the Foundation for Jewish Camp.
As you have likely heard, we just returned from a special, twenty-four hour fly-in to Jerusalem to meet with Israel’s political, civic, and business leaders about the advancing legislation in the Knesset that would change the relationship between Israel’s legislative and executive branch…
We, leaders from Jewish communities across North America, have made this extraordinary trip to Israel to show our love for our Israeli brothers and sisters at this challenging time. We were welcomed with love by members of the government, the opposition, the protest movement, and other key…
We are far from the only ones to note that today is the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine. The impact of the war is heart-rending, with countless deaths, unimaginable destruction and millions displaced. But we should also use this anniversary to acknowledge the in…
We share with many of you the deep concern at all the attention the so-called “National Day of Hate” is receiving. This is yet another example of how social media is contributing to the rise in antisemitism, this time by spreading and amplifying the activities of what is surely a very sm…
The proposed judicial reforms continue to make headlines in Israel, with developments occurring on an almost daily basis.
Yesterday, Jewish Federations sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (original Hebrew version here) expressing our conce…
