The Jewish National Fund blue box
For decades, Jews around the world have cherished the Jewish National Fund’s supposedly “charitable” work buying and managing land in Israel. Generations of Jewish children have been encouraged to drop pennies into its iconic blue collection boxes.
The Fund is held in similar high esteem by western governments, which typically subsidize their citizens’ donations to the JNF by treating them as tax exempt. Meanwhile, international agencies seek out its advice on environmental and sustainability issues.
But a vote last month by the JNF’s board threatens to unmask the Zionist charity, even to its most faithful supporters. For the first time, the organization has agreed to publicly allocate funds to expand Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The Jewish State (
Der Judenstaat), that the Jews would continue to be persecuted and treated as second class citizens unless they reestablished their own nation. Although belonging to the secular, assimilated Jewish upper-class of Viennese society, Herzl had ample experience with anti-Semitism: both personally, as a law student in Vienna (a profession that placed barriers to Jews), and as a journalist employed by the prestigious Viennese newspaper
Neue Freie Presse, for which he got to cover anti-Semitic eruptions throughout Europe. Hence Herzl knew what he was talking about when he observed in 1896 his controversial political pamphlet,
The Jewish State:
“The Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers. We are naturally drawn into those places where we are not persecuted, and our appearance there gives rise to persecution. This is the case, and will inevitably be so, everywhere, even in highly civilized countries see, for instance, France so long as
Miami brings home the gold in multiple events, women’s team finishes second overall
Wrapping up the indoor season, the Canes headed north to Clemson where the team competed in the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships. Miami found success during the three-day affair and returned to Coral Gables with an impressive resume.
Freshman Oskar Bambals set expectations high on the first day in the 800 meter race preliminaries. He ran a time of 1:48.78, setting a new personal best and finishing second overall. Bambals ran a time of 1:49.29 in the final and took home third place.
On the women’s side, senior Kayla Johnson qualified for the finals in the 800 meter race with a time of 2:05.18, a new personal best time. Freshman Sierra Oliveria joined her in qualifying with a time of 2:07.81, also a personal best time. Johnson went on to finish fourth in the final setting a personal best time again (2:03.80) and Oliveria finished eight overall.
The economy is at a standstill, people are out of work and stuck home and big Israel-support organizations are having a banner year.
The Jewish National Fund raised a record $100.8 million last year in the United States, even as the pandemic canceled live fundraising events and JNF-sponsored trips to Israel.
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Finance Ministry Accountant General, Yali Rothenberg, addressing global Israel Bonds leadership and staff February 9 via Zoom.
At the same time, State of Israel Bonds also set a record of $1.8 billion in sales worldwide last year $1.5 billion in sales in the U.S. alone, an increase of $400 million over its original goal.
JERUSALEM - Generations of Jews have dropped spare change into the iconic blue boxes of the Jewish National Fund, a 120-year-old Zionist organization th.