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2013 Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards a Smash

Nearly 300 people came to the TimesCenter celebrated Jewish New York at the 2013 Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards on Monday, June 10th, including our tremendous honorees and presenters Scott Berrie and Angelica Berrie, Deborah Dash Moore and Irene Golden Dash, Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, Leon Botstein and Judith Berkowitz, and State Senator Daniel Squadron and the family behind Russ & Daughters, as well as our master of ceremonies Paul LeClerc.

Check out the new two minute FJC trailer we debuted at the gala, explaining who we are, what we do, and why we do it!

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Whither Jewish Arts Funding?

June 19, 2013

Another day, another piece about the state of funding for the arts in the Jewish world. Today the Jewish Week published an editorial that linked the recent news about the closing of the New York-based Six Points Fellowship program (the LA-based cohort runs through February 2014) with similar closings (Heeb, JDub, SF’s Traveling Jewish Theater). “The […]Read more »

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Asylum: International Jewish Artist Retreat gathered 65 top young Jewish artists from around the world in Garrison, NY, from March 3-5, for an unprecedented exploration of global Jewish culture.
The FJC-funded documentary The Law In These Parts, about military courts in the Israeli West Bank, will air on PBS’s POV series August 19th.
The FJC’s own Marcie Kaufman, Manager of Individual Giving and Special Events, appears in Jewish Cultural Aspirations (Purdue University Press), edited by 2011 JCAA recipient Ruth Weisberg. Her chapter covers “The Impact and Vitality of New Jewish Art.”
The FJC mourns the loss of Hadassah K. Musher, 101, former trustee and guiding light, the last surviving daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (founder of Reconstructionism).

2013 Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards a Smash

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