The business of grooming and funding young Jewish social entrepreneurs and innovators — essentially the search for the next big Jewish idea — is now a big one.Incubators like Bikkurim, funds like Slingshot and Natan as well as gatherings in Jerusalem like the PresenTense Institute and the ROI Summit have in recent years helped […]

Beatrice Taishoff had always been fiercely independent, with a strong will for life. Yet when she entered Jewish Home Lifecare in the Bronx at the age of 98, she was in a bad state. She didn’t recognize her children when they came to visit her and quickly withdrew into an uncommunicative shell.
Taishoff yearned to […]