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Family Conversations Around Your Jewish Values and Giving

The Foundation is pleased to provide you with some complimentary tools developed by 21/64 to engage you and your family in questions and conversation around your values and giving. Originally created by Andrea and Charles Bronfman, 21/64 is a nonprofit organization that specializes in next generation and multigenerational philanthropy.

  • How does your giving reflect the legacy you wish to create?
  • What are the values that inform your giving?
  • What issues are you passionate about?
  • What are the values you wish to pass along to your family, your friends, your community?

If you are interested in learning more and would like to receive your complimentary Motivational Values Cards or Exploring Giving Cards, please contact Scott Kaplan at [email protected] or Jill Hagler at [email protected]. We are happy to work with you and your family to help facilitate these important conversations.

 

Writing Your Jewish Story

Many donors have shared that one of the motivating factors to making a legacy commitment is to be a role model to their children. The Foundation can help you do that by capturing your Jewish story – why and how you got involved in the Jewish community and what motivated you to make this generous and enduring gift to the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. You also have the opportunity to include your testimonial in Federation’s soon-to-be-launched digital Book of Life, an online album that will contain stories and photos of those donors who have generously included the Jewish community in their estate plan. Click here for more details with some questions to help you get started. If you would like assistance writing your entry for the Book of Life, please contact Jill Hagler at [email protected].

 

Tracing Your Family Journey

The Forever Lion committee, chaired by Shelly Brodie in partnership with Women’s Philanthropy and the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, is hosting “Tracing Your Family Journey,” a program on genealogy. Join us on Tuesday, June 30 at 10:30 a.m. We will have the opportunity to hear from Haim Ghiuzeli, Director of the Database Department at the museum, who will teach us how we can begin or continue tracing our family trees using Beit Hatfutsot’s complimentary resources and expertise.

For more information, please contact Jill Hagler at [email protected].

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Looking for ways to engage your college and post-college-aged child(ren) this summer in something meaningful? Check out:

Jewish Changemakers Fellowship for Jewish students and recent graduates 20-25 years old.
For more information, contact Rachel Atfield at [email protected].

Serve the Moment for young adults and college students ages 18-29. For more information, contact Lori Tabachnikoff at [email protected].

Statement on Ongoing College Campus Protests

Statement on Ongoing College Campus Protests

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation and its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) stand in solidarity with Jewish college students across the country who are being targeted on campus simply because they are Jewish or because they believe that Israel has the right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people.

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Yom HaShoah Commemoration is May 5

Yom HaShoah Commemoration is May 5

Next weekend’s Yom HaShoah observance is a chance to stand in solidarity with your Miami community and pay tribute to the 6 million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered during the Holocaust and honor the strength and courage of the Survivors.

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Making a Difference Through The Foundation

Making a Difference Through The Foundation

This year, The Foundation will contribute $3.1 million to the Annual Campaign, thanks to the careful consideration of more than 100 generous donors who created endowed gifts by including Federation in their estate plans or through retirement funds, insurance policies or lifetime gifts.

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Wellness Shabbat in May


Wellness Shabbat in May


In an effort to shine a light on Mental Health Awareness Month, Federation’s BeWell Miami is organizing Wellness Shabbat, a collaboration between Miami Dade synagogues and organizations over the course of the five shabbatot in May.

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