Investor Spotlight: Hadassah
July 29, 2024 UPDATE – JLens is thrilled to have Hadassah as an investor and supporter of our mission! Janice Weinman, CEO of Hadassah, spoke…
Read MoreAirbnb Abandons CSR Values by Acquiescing to Anti-Israel BDS Campaign
Airbnb executives acquiesced last week to pressure from the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions”) campaign by removing roughly 200 Jewish rental listings in the West…
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Airbnb Abandons Corporate Social Responsibility Values by Acquiescing to BDS Campaign
July 28, 2022 UPDATE – Airbnb executives acquiesced last week to pressure from the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions”) campaign by removing roughly 200 Jewish…
Read MoreJLens Receives $10m Impact Investment from Leichtag Foundation
The Leichtag Foundation has awarded a $10 million challenge impact investment to JLens‘ Jewish Advocacy Strategy, a Jewish values-aligned investment offering that advocates with companies…
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Gun Violence and Investing
September 12, 2023 UPDATE JLens’ position on gun violence and investing is influenced by Jewish tradition which generally views weapons unfavorably, seeing them as unsavory…
Read MoreBrooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?
Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from…
Read MoreIsrael: The Startup Charitable Nation
Throughout the world, Israel is known as the “startup nation,” where investors are increasingly drawn to the innovation and brainpower that are its greatest natural…
Read MoreCan Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.
For all of its modern history, the American Jewish community has pursued most of its goals through philanthropy — funding programs and institutions through donations…
Read MoreJLens Hosts First Impact Investing Summit for Jewish Communal Leadership
Some 300 Jewish communal leaders and finance professionals, including a number who traveled from Israel, attended the first Jewish Impact Investing Summit in New York…
Read MoreJewish-Lens Investors Ask “Why Impact”
As interest in impact investing grows, faith-based communities are recognizing its power to advance their values. JLens Investor Network hosted its first summit at Fordham…
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