July 2009
"Why Cool Communities Are Hot"
By David Russell, Jewish Renaissance
New, alternative communities of Jews are springing up all over the world, organized around creative approaches to Jewish culture, spirituality, or ways of connecting to the Jewish people on 21st-century terms. This article profiles several such communities, including those being created by The Jewish Salons, a Natan grantee.

Spring 2009
"Seeding the Ecosystem of the Jewish Future"
By Felicia Herman and Shawn Landres, Contact: The Journal of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
Advocates laying the groundwork for a Jewish communal infrastructure that will sustain the community for the coming decades.

April 27, 2009
"Op-Ed: Invest in innovation"
By Felicia Herman and Dana Raucher
What is now a crisis of economy must not become a crisis of vision. The recent economic downturn gives us a rare opportunity to rethink the way the Jewish community is organized. The extreme contraction of resources, which we believe has only just begun, forces us all to have difficult and often painful conversations about our philanthropic and communal priorities..

April 1, 2009
"It’s Innovation, Stupid"
By Staff Report,The Jewish Week
Since the early 1800s, New York has suffered through 11 major recessions, and each time the press said the city would never recover, according to Dan Doctoroff, former deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding for New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

March 18, 2009
"Keeping Innovation Alive In These Dark Times"
By Charles R. Bronfman, The Jewish Week
We are in a “New World” — no, not the one that Christopher Columbus founded, but the one in which we find ourselves today. However, like Columbus, we find ourselves both in unchartered territories and threatening ones as well. Yet, from that perilous situation came North America as we know it today, the most highly developed society ever.

February 26, 2009
"New Jewish Charities Have Attracted Diverse Clients, Study Finds"
By Ben Gose, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Jewish charities created in the past 10 years are serving a diverse clientele, with more than a quarter of participants in the organizations having no other meaningful connection to Jewish causes, according to a survey of new Jewish organizations.

February 18, 2009
"Start And Stop For Jewish Startups?"
By Tamar Snyder, The Jewish Week
According to the 2008 Survey of New Jewish Organizations, sponsored by The Natan Fund and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, more than 300 Jewish startups with operating budgets of under $2 million have been founded since 1998, and they’re engaging close to 400,000 Jews.

December 30, 2008
"Clinging To Hope Amid The Madoff Gloom"
By Erica Schacter Schwartz, The Jewish Week
There was something uncanny about the timing of the Yeshiva University Chanukah dinner merely three days after the news came out of Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

November 19, 2008
"Time To Increase Funds For Innovative Groups"
By Felicia Herman And Nigel Savage, The Jewish Week
For those who are open to engaging in Jewish life, the last decade has been an American Jewish golden age. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the new Jewish “innovation sector,” a peer-group of entrepreneurial organizations that includes Avodah, Heeb, JDub, Hadar, Keshet and Storahtelling, among many others.

November 11, 2008
"Independent minyanim growing rapidly, and the Jewish world is noticing"
By Ben Harris, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
When Kehilat Hadar met for its first Shabbat morning service on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2001, about 60 people showed up, some of them spilling into the hallway at the apartment of Ethan Tucker, one of the minyan’s founders. Three weeks later the number had ballooned to more than 100.

October 19, 2008
"Jewish Heart for Africa"
By Ehud Zion Waldoks, The Jerusalem Post
Borowich, 30, founded Jewish Heart for Africa about 10 months ago and today she has projects running in Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Aside from the projects themselves, Jewish Heart for Africa also attempts to improve the image of Jews and Israel in Africa.

October 10, 2008
"A Makeshift Synagogue and Me"
By Hanna Ingber Win, The Huffington Post
My friend and I went to a service organized by Ohel Ayalah for Jews in their 20s and 30s who live in New York City and don't belong to their own congregation. It's a brilliant idea -- a way of giving people a chance to celebrate the High Holidays even if they don't belong to a temple or can't afford the high High Holidays ticket costs.