One Hundred Years and Still Changing: A View of the Jewish Federation from a Large City Federation Executive

Publication Date: November 1995

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Wayne L. Feinstein

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Jewish Identification; Allocations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The certainties of the federation structure—a unified fund-raising, communal planning, and validation process with volunteer participation—with which most professionals entered their careers are in the process of rapid change. Federations must now refocus their vision so that they enable the strengthening of Jewish identity, the building of living bridges between the Jews of their local communities and the Jews of Israel, and the adjustment to reductions in public funding of their agencies' programs.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.1-2, Fall/Winter 1995/1996.