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Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) is celebrating fifty years of philanthropic stewardship under the new leadership of Rachel Schnoll, who was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 2022. JCF is the largest and most active Jewish Donor Advised Fund (DAF), managing $2.6 billion in charitable assets for more than 4,500 funds. Founded in 1972, the Jewish Communal Fund has grown tremendously and has facilitated more than $2 billion in charitable giving to thousands of worthy causes in communities around the world.

Recap: Libby doesn’t understand why her boss is letting those rude men be in the aviation school. She thinks there is something not right about them. Avi’s sister and their niece are coming for Friday night dinner. Libby and Avi have an important meeting scheduled.

LOS ANGELES (December 7, 2022) – the CEO of EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd., Dina Ben-Tal Ganancia, on her first visit to the West Coast, U.S.A., since taking the CEO role in May 2022, announced an increase in EL AL’s winter service between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv from three flights a week to five, the same number it operates during the rest of the year.

In this week’s parshah, Yaakov prepares to see his brother Eisav. The p’sukim go into detail explaining the preparations that Yaakov does: including preparing for war, grouping his family, and sending Eisav gifts. As Yaakov and his family make their way towards Eisav, they encounter the Yabok River, and go to pass through. Yaakov goes back and is on his own. Rashi explains that Yaakov ends up being alone because he goes back for “pachim k’tanim” – small vessels – that he left behind.

Rabbi Moshe Bamberger, Mashgiach Ruchani at Touro’s Lander College for Men, Shines Rabbinic Lessons on Contemporary Challenges, Harnessing Powerful Quotes and Exquisite Graphics

In his new book Great Jewish Faith, Rabbi Moshe Bamberger gathers wisdom from a millennium of Torah personalities to help navigate modern challenges with serenity and belief.

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Ibrahim Khan, longtime chief of staff to Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, has resigned amid an investigation into misconduct.  Khan had been one of Ms. James’s closest political advisers for nearly a decade. Three people with knowledge of the matter said it involved at least two harassment allegations by women. The accusations against Mr. Khan, who began working for Ms. James as spokesman for her campaign for New York City Public Advocate in 2013 and then, after she took office, as her Chief of Staff, were particularly sensitive for Ms. James, who oversaw a 2021 sexual harassment inquiry of New York’s governor at the time, Andrew Cuomo. “I’ve been slated to leave the office for the private sector at the end of this year,” Khan said in the statement. “This is unrelated to an investigation which, nevertheless, found no official workplace misconduct,” adding he “is proud of all we have achieved over these past four years in serving New Yorkers.”