Guests and Blogs

Straight talk about reverse mortgages for seniors, from a member of the Denver Jewish Chamber of Commerce.

BJN welcomes Interplay Recording and Multimedia Studios as a new advertiser.

Maybe all you’re missing is inside of you...

Impact investing is the rapidly expanding approach to financial markets that seeks to do well and to do good. It attempts to generate positive financial and social returns.

Economic and political volatility will impact the giving world.

I would like to bring some tips and teachings of Judaism that can help us bring more unity.

The U.S. ranks last among the G20 nations in achieving the SDGs, and 36th among all the countries in the world.

I’m in my car and on my way to Camp Hess Kramer off the Pacific Coast Highway in Southern California, one of two camps founded by my late Grandfather Rabbi Alfred Wolf for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Now in ashes, decimated by the Woolsey fire that ripped through Malibu, lies 180 acres and 67 years of steeped tradition, all ash.

Since 2010, I have now written 100 columns addressing many aspects of philanthropy – for families, businesses and foundations. To acknowledge this milestone, here are some of my favorite excerpts.

A new poem from Lisa Tremback.

Rather extraordinary, I say to myself. Two very different personalities, Father Desbois and Stan Lee, take center stage of history on the very same calendar day!

A timely piece of poetry about our world today.

Tonight there was a very powerful and moving vigil at JW3, London's JCC, for the victims of Pittsburgh. 

Pittsburgh is obviously weighing heavily on our hearts today.

Shabbat is supposed to be a “taste of the World to Come.” But this Shabbat was desecrated by a man filled with hate, carrying weapons of murder into a sacred space. 

We are all grief-stricken by the anti-Semitic attack on the worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

In these challenging times, we have to sustain the vision of a nation and a world where our freedoms of expression and practice, whoever we are, are cherished and protected.

This is an attack on all of us, and we grieve with the families who have lost loved ones and pray for the recovery of those who are injured. 

How can citizen-activists embody symbiotic solutions as we transition from our petroleum-pharmaceutical-addicted cyber-culture to an interfaith social permaculture—one that inspires, educates, and mobilizes peoples of diverse religious backgrounds?

I was in Birmingham following a mission to Montgomery with 35 rabbis and other Jewish leaders, on a trip organized by T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, to visit the incredible Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. 

Morah Yehudis reflects on "Oh My God," the recent Theater Or production at the Boulder JCC featuring Rabbi Marc Soloway playing God.

Through philanthropy, individuals can (and do) make a difference, promote change and improve their communities.

The fastest-growing tool in the philanthropic arena is the donor-advised fund. DAFs are 501(c)(3) philanthropic accounts established at a public charity.

Philanthropy is “coherent” when it is logical, well-organized, well-planned and sensible – as well as easy to understand and articulate.

Philanthropy is “coherent” when it is logical, well-organized, well-planned and sensible – as well as easy to understand and articulate.