Rachel Kohn

Chicago

Opinion Editor at eJewish Philanthropy

Not the shtetl mama you were expecting. Opinion Editor @eJPhil. Likes/RTs ≠ endorsement by my employer. Be kind, rewind. #MadeinDetroit

Articles

Your Daily Phil: $2.5M matching grant makes Campers2Gether a yearly program

1 week ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Friday morning. Ed. note: In observance of Passover, the next Your Daily Phil will arrive in your inbox on Monday, April 21. Chag kasher v’sameach!In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we cover a $2.5 million matching grant to turn Campers2Gether from an emergency initiative into a permanent program and the “Oct.
Your Daily Phil: Behind the Mandel Foundation’s $90M donation to local day schools

2 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Wednesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on the last of three World Zionist Congress debates hosted by eJewishPhilanthropy last night.
Your Daily Phil: Two WZC slates under scrutiny for suspected voter fraud

2 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Tuesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on an investigation of suspected mass voter fraud in the World Zionist Congress election and recap the second WZC election debate.
Your Daily Phil: ADL chief stresses ‘rule of law’ in deportation cases

3 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Thursday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new fund to offset tuition costs for those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires and on the recipients of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s inaugural Resilience Award for Children and Youth.
Your Daily Phil: As Gruss Life Fund sunsets, its spinoffs look to rise

3 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Tuesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new study byBlackbaud Institute on giving trends from 2024 and the recent “sunsetting” of the Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Life Monument Fund.
Your Daily Phil: Giving to Israel increasingly decentralized - study

3 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Monday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new study about American charitable giving to Israeli nonprofits. We wrap up last week’s Jewish Funders Network conference and examine the State Department’s cuts to Israeli programs.
Your Daily Phil: President Isaac Herzog’s alternative antisemitism confab

4 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Thursday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s alternative antisemitism conference that was held last night in Jerusalem and spotlight a fund providing no-interest loans to help trans individuals and families relocate to other states.
Your Daily Phil: What is (and isn’t) being discussed at the Central Conference of American Rabbis

4 weeks ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Wednesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on this week’s Central Conference of American Rabbis gathering in Chicago and on the next steps for Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin. We examine how Jewish family services across the United States are responding to the Trump administration’s funding cuts.
Your Daily Phil: Election interference allegations in World Zionist balloting

1 month ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Tuesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we cover a Birthright Israel event marking its 25th anniversary on the sidelines of the Jewish Funders Network conference and report on a new youth advisory committee being launched by the mental health nonprofit BaMidbar.
Your Daily Phil: Jewish Funders Network confab kicks off in Music City

1 month ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Kohn

Recent Issues Good Monday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on the first day of the Jewish Funders Network conference in Nashville, Tenn.