Years Running Only Michigan Dealer to Iffin 77e Prestigious "Pride ofjaguar - Awardfor Excellence in Sales & Service Generous 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. 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