Podcasts of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund

Pascal Levensohn, owner at Leaf + Twig Vineyard and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners, spoke with the JCF about what it means to be a Jewish winemaker. He will be sampling his wine along with 19 other wineries at the BLC's annual Wine Tasting event, part of JCF's Day of Philanthropy, on November 16, 2011, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. For more information visit: www.jewishfed.org/event/winetasting

Mike Alpert, Head of Asset Allocation at Wetherby Asset Management, explains what the audience's two key takeaways are from the investment panel discussion on the evening of October 26, 2011 at Deloitte in SF.

This is not your grandfather's recession. In this interview, Mike Alpert, Head of Asset Allocation at Wetherby Asset Management, previews the big issues panelists will tackle at the BLC's Panel: Where is the Smart Money Going, on October 26, 2011, 6 PM, at the offices of Deloitte in SF.
For more information visit: www.jewishfed.org/calendar

Two decades after Operation Exodus, Federation staffer Joy Powers catches up with Russian immigrant Dima Mostovoy to discuss his family's departure from Moscow, and what happened to him after settling in the Bay Area.

Read the related blog post at:
http://sfjcf.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/operation-exodus-dima/

Read the transcript at:
http://www.jewishfed.org/node/6229

-- The Jewish People & Israel: Where Does Israel Fit into our lives today?

-- American Jews and Israel in the Age of Avigdor Lieberman

-- Me and Israel: How do We talk about Israel? Listening to others Speak about Israel

Conversation with Rabbi Donniel Hartman on August 10, 2009.

Donniel Hartman, Co-Director of Shalom Hartman Institute and an ordained rabbi, has a doctorate in Jewish philosophy from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Master of Arts in political philosophy from New York University, and a Master of Arts in religion from Temple University. Donniel is the founder of some of the most extensive education, training and enrichment programs for educators and rabbis in Israel and North America.

He is the author of The Boundaries of Judaism and the co-editor of a new anthology, Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life, both published by Continuum Press. Donniel is the co-author of Spheres of Jewish Identity, a new core curriculum in Jewish philosophy for secular Israeli high schools.

On January 21, 2009, the San Francisco based Jewish Community Federation held its first-ever community conference call with Israel. The call gave Bay Area folks the chance to hear directly from our partners in the south of Israel most affected by the recent Gaza conflict.

Community members called in from as far away as Hawaii. We heard from Shmuel Yilma, an Ethiopian Jew living in Be'er Sheva involved with the Atzmaut program we support; Shlomzion Cohen, a teacher in a local elementary school in Kibbutz Mefalsim and involved with a variety of programs we support; and Vivian Silver, Director of NISPED in Be'er Sheva, where we support their Year of Joint Volunteering for Bedouin-Arab and Jewish youth as well as other programs of theirs.

We heard how these communities, although faced with many difficulties, are coming out of this situation with renewed hope. And the final message from Israel - "You (in San Francisco) should feel very proud of the work you're doing here."

Philanthropy isn’t easy. It requires training, experience and a commitment to tzedakah. The Jewish Community Teen Foundations offers select groups of Bay Area Jewish teens the opportunity to explore Jewish values and ideas, develop leadership skills, and the chance to practice informed and directed philanthropy. Teens who serve on one of the five Jewish Community Teen Foundations learn how to run their own non-profit foundations and to become strategic grantmakers.

Robert Greenberg talks about his experience with the Marin Jewish Community Teen Foundation on KSRO.

More information about the Teen Foundations at http://www.jewishteenfoundation.org/

Barry Shrage's keynote address at the Synagogue Federation Partnership Symposium in San Francisco in June 16, 2008. Shrage is the CEO of the Boston Combined Jewish Philanthropies.