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New charity rankings confirm that Israel crisis
bolsters Jewish giving.
URIEL HEILMAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
New York
VIT
bile U.S. charities strug-
gled last year to cope with
the first drop in charitable
giving in 12 years, Jewish
charities defied the national trend by
increasing their fund-raising.
That finding, documented in the
Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of the 400
top charities — an annual report that
ranks charities by the private support
they receive — was welcome news for
Jewish groups around the country.
The Jewish group highest on the list
was the umbrella organization of local
Jewish federations, the United Jewish
Communities, which raised more than
$266 million from private sources and
moved up to 32nd place from 41st on
the list. In all, 29 Jewish or Jewish-relat-
ed groups made the top 400.
Jewish groups rose in the rankings
largely due to fund-raising campaigns to
help Israelis affected by terrorism, but
also due to donations tied to the Sept.
11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Chronicle's
editor, Stacy Palmer, said. Those events
sparked a 7.5 percent rise in gifts to
Jewish groups, Palmer said.
The UJC's Israel Emergency
Campaign, the largest of the Israel-relat-
ed drives among Jewish groups, has col-
lected more than $250 million since it
was launched after the start of the
Palestinian intificla (uprising), according
to UJC spokeswoman Gail Hyman.
"I sure hope Jews don't read this and
say, 'I guess we're doing a wonderful
job,"' said Mark Charendoff, president
of the Jewish Funders Network, which
helps Jewish foundations develop more
effective philanthropy strategies. "Our
ability to respond to a crisis doesn't
speak to our willingness to fund the
ongoing growth and vitality of Jewish
life in America.
"There is an amazing, remarkable
resilience that the American Jewish corn-
munity has, to respond to times of crisis,
especially when that crisis is connected
to Israel," Charendoff said. "We're less
good at responding to more amorphous
crises, like the crisis of Jewish continuity
or the crisis of Jewish illiteracy
"For our communities, that's got to be
a question that troubles us: If there was-
n't a crisis in Israel this past year, where
would we be on that list?"
Still, many officials in the Jewish phil-
anthropic world, even those whose
groups were not listed among the top
400, were heartened by the rankings.
"Traditionally, Jews have given more
money, Jews are more generous as a per-
centage of their net worth," said Lisa
Farber Miller, senior program officer at
the Rose Community Foundation, a
Denver-based Jewish foundation with a
$220 million endowment.
Among top Jewish groups, federations
seem to have benefited most from
increased Jewish giving. The UJA-
Federation of New York was the second
Jewish group on the Chronicle of
Philanthropy's list, climbing to 51st place
from 68th last year, with $198 million
in private money.
Among federations, New York was fol-
lowed by local federations in Chicago,
Detroit, Los Angeles and Boston, all of
which moved up the list. The federa-
tions in New Jersey's MetroWest region,
Philadelphia and Miami also moved up.
Detroit ranked 183rd, with $76.5
million. In 2001, it was 187th, with
$75.8 million.
The Jewish Federation of Greater
Washington, which didn't make the list
last year, ranked 294th this year.
The only Jewish federations to fall in
the rankings were those covering the San
Francisco Bay area, Baltimore,
Cleveland, Atlanta and Florida's Palm
Beach County. Palm Beach dropped out
of the top 400 altogether.
A variety of other Jewish groups made
the top 400, including universities and
research groups, Hadassah, the Anti-
Defamation League, the American
Jewish Committee and the Jewish
National Fund.
Among organizations with Israeli
connections, the highest-ranked charity
was the American Friends of Bar-Ilan
University, which raised $145 million
from private sources and ranked 85th,
up from 90th. The American-
Committee for the Weizmann Institute
of Science rose to 207th place from
262nd, with $65 million.
The largest Arab group, the American
Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities/St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital,
came in at 30th place with $271 mil-
lion.
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