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I wrote “The Tide is Rising” after being asked to lead a song at Coming Together In Faith On Climate, an interfaith service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC during Pope Francis’s visit. Raised in the folk scene, I have experienced the power of music to move groups of people and inspire shared vision and identity. “The Tide Is Rising” has gone viral in the climate movement, and I’m

If you want to influence someone’s behavior, it helps to ask who they know.  Thanks to the groundbreaking research of Nick Christakis and others, there is now a mounting body of evidence showing that a range of our behaviors and attitudes are influenced by our social networks.  Your friends help shape whether or not you smoke, if you can lose weight, how happy you say you are, where you live

Opening night of the Miami Jewish Film Festival is tonight!  We will be screening 80 films over two weeks and are almost entirely sold out. I am especially proud that we will be screening the North American premiere of Natalie Portman’s new film, A Tale of Love and Darkness. This is her directorial debut and she stars in the movie, too. Most people don’t know that she was born in Israel

A familiar Wexner leadership lesson teaches us the value of “standing on the balcony.” As we approach MLK weekend, I am reminded of how, just a few short months after graduating from the Wexner Heritage Program, I found myself standing on a balcony with a very different view. This time, it was a real balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, on the very spot where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life came

Three and a half years ago, while finishing my Wexner Heritage program in Israel, I visited Yad Vashem on a free afternoon before Shabbat. I wanted some reflective time in a place that has long been important to me as the son of a Holocaust survivor. After touring the museum, I settled at a computer to search the database of victims of the Shoah for my relatives that had lived

Many people ask us, “What is the Jewish Funders Network (JFN)?” When people express confusion about something you are so involved in, it comes as a surprise, and a prompt. Since most of us in the Wexner network are very connected to philanthropic giving, the three of us thought we would share what JFN does and why it is strategic. More than twenty years ago, a handful of funders convened to