May 14, 2014 | Community Impact, Miscellaneous
The St. Louis Jewish Community Study recently received a grant from The Morton J. and Morton D. May Fund. This study of the St. Louis area’s Jewish community to determine its size, geographic distribution, socioeconomic, religious and cultural attributes will help...
May 7, 2014 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Excellent cooperation rate reached about one-third of the way into the interviewing The St. Louis Jewish Community Study has received additional funding support from the Lubin-Green Foundation, a supporting foundation of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and the Morton...
Apr 8, 2014 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Jewish Federation of St. Louis announces the launch of the Congregational Chesed Fund, which will enable senior rabbis to help Jewish individuals with emergency financial assistance. The fund provides $1,000 to each congregational rabbi that can be distributed at...
Mar 14, 2014 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Data collected will help inform community planning, allocations and programming efforts for Jewish agencies and organizations for the next decade Visit JFedSTL.org/CountMeIn Jewish Federation of St. Louis, in conjunction with local synagogues and other Jewish...
Jan 16, 2014 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Grants have been given to innovative next generation Jewish projects since 2008 The Kranzberg Family Foundation, a supporting organization of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, has awarded $65,000 in grants to 12 Jewish programs for children, teens and young adults for...
Jan 8, 2014 | Community Impact, Miscellaneous
Michael Staenberg was raised in a family of modest means. But his parents didn’t use that as an excuse not to support their community. They felt lucky to have a roof over their heads and food on the table. “They taught us that it is important to give to...
Nov 13, 2013 | Community Impact, Miscellaneous
Susan Mlynarczyk gives because she hopes that she can make a difference. “Hopefully, by volunteering and giving, I can help make the community a little bit better,” she says. “I give to certain charities that I believe do really good things, but with Federation I am...
Nov 11, 2013 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Jewish Federation of St. Louis has set up the Typhoon Haiyan Emergency Relief Fund to mobilize a communal response to super Typhoon Haiyan, which has wrought widespread destruction in the Philippines. St. Louisans can donate to the fund online by clicking here. One...
Oct 18, 2013 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
Eight local ideas for Jewish education and engagement projects chosen for funding from 73 submissions Jewish Federation of St. Louis announces it has named eight recipients as the first cohort for the 2013 Innovation Grants. Their eight projects, which address Jewish...
Oct 14, 2013 | Community Impact, JFed STL News
By Yael Shapira, Federation Representative in Yokneam-Megiddo I am such a “match maker” at heart, that I just love it when two federation- funded programs come together. The result is always greater than the sum of each part alone. The Hila program is a national...
