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November 11, 2019

The New Israel Fund Declares War on Jewish Communities

From liberal Zionism to drawing donors away from federations.

For much of American Jewry, local Jewish federations remain important umbrella organizations that direct funds to a variety of Jewish philanthropies. But the New Israel Fund (NIF)—founded in 1979 to support left-wing organizations in the Jewish state—has recently taken the step of trying to compete with the federations in distributing monies, particularly through donor-advised funds. NIF’s supposed advantage is that it is happy to direct donations to anti-Israel groups such as IfNotNow, deemed off-limits by federations. Jonathan Tobin writes:

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