Ruderman Family Foundation

Azerbaijan becomes first Muslim-majority country to define antisemitism in textbooks

An IMPACT-se report studied 53 textbooks from Azerbaijan's national curriculum, finding notable updates, including the removal of anti-Israel narratives, and showing no signs of Islamist rhetoric.

 Azerbaijan & Israel Cooperation
 RONALD LIEBOWITZ

Prominent academics note: ‘There is still a deep reservoir of American young people tied to Israel'

 DAVID BLATT and former Maccabi player Derrick Sharp.

‘Sports is a tremendous platform that can unify and bond us all’

 Danielle Robay

From Hollywood to Tel Aviv: TV hosts connect over Jewish values


Connecting the Start-Up Nation

Meet Michael Eisenberg and Yasmin Lukatz

Yasmin Lukatz is an Israeli-born businesswoman who lived in the US for 18 years. She is the executive director of the Israel Collaboration Network (ICON), an organization that created a Silicon Valley-based community to harness and support Israeli start-up technology and innovation.

Influential philanthropists view Israel as a vehicle for bolstering American Jews’ identity

For Jay Ruderman and Ofra Strauss – two leading figures in the Jewish and philanthropic world – reinforcing the critical Jewish-American/Israeli relationship is all about fostering dialogue.

Jay Ruderman is the president of the Ruderman Family Foundation and an American lawyer, disability rights activist and philanthropist. He lives in the Greater Boston area with his wife Shira and their four children.

When President Biden’s rabbi met an Ethiopian-Israeli Orthodox rabbi

I spoke to these two rabbis as part of a series on the relations between the two largest Jewish communities in the world – Israel and the US.

 RABBI MICHAEL BEALS

Making Israel - US Jewry relations cool again

Noa Tishby - "Israelis don't understand the antisemitism that American Jewry is dealing with."