FedBeat

Donor-Advised Funds: How to make sure they strengthen our communities

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are useful planned giving tools for Federation and foundation donors. Read more.

Romanian police nab suspect for Wiesel graffiti

Romanian police arrested a 37-year-old man whom they suspect wrote anti-Semitic slogans on the childhood home of Elie Wiesel. Read more.

Swastikas on Russian Chabad center in cradle of Lubavitch Hasidic movement

Anti-Semitic slogans were scrawled on the fence of a Jewish cultural center in the Russian village of Lyubavichi, the cradle of the Chabad Hasidic movement. Read more.

Kofi Annan remembered as friend of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Foreign Ministry expressed sorrow on Saturday night for the passing at age 80 of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a diplomat who made the UN a tiny bit less anti-Israel. Read more.

Hi-tech trailblazers: The Druze heart of the Start-Up Nation

If, as they say in Africa, it takes a village to raise a child, in Israel it takes many villages to make the “Start-Up Nation.” Read more.