The Importance of StandWithUs “Israel in Focus Conference”

Original post can be found on The Times of Israel Blog The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation proudly supports StandWithUs‘ annual Israel in Focus conference, which brings together college students from across North America at a weekend-long conference in Los Angeles. Over three days, participants learn the skills and facts that will help them better discuss Israel on campus and beyond as well as network with other student leaders and discuss programming and strategy ideas. Brett Cohen, Executive Director of Campus Affairs for StandWithUs, shares how the conference gives its participants confidence and knowledge. You can read his post below.  Each year, the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs hosts  Read More…

A Participant in Milstein Family Foundation Partner Programs Shares Her Story

Original post can be found on The Times of Israel Blog The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is proud to partner with Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and Hasbara Fellowships, both pro-Israel campus movements. A participant in these programs, Liat Menna, shares how the Milstein Family Foundation’s support has helped her find a truly strong and rewarding connection to Israel. You can read her post below. The most rewarding part of advocacy on campus is belonging to a supportive community — a unique group of people who share so much passion and love, who seek truth with a genuine effort to heal the world from  Read More…

The Israeli-American Connector

Article originally posted on The Jerusalem Post As national chairman of the Israeli-American Council, an umbrella group of Americans of Israeli descent living in the US, the Los Angeles-based Adam Milstein sees himself as the “connector” between Israel and the US, and at the forefront of fighting the anti-Israel BDS movement. “We are the nexus between the Israeli and American people,” the affable Milstein says in an interview withJerusalem Post editors during a recent visit to Jerusalem. “We feel that the Israeli American community is equipped and has the information necessary to lead the fight against BDS.” Under Milstein’s leadership, the  Read More…

Milstein Family Foundation Partners with TAMID: A Participant’s Story

Posted by Hadas Sella, the Milstein Family Foundation’s Executive Director. Original post can be found at The Times of Israel Blog The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is a proud supporter of TAMID Group, a nonprofit organization that develops the professional skills of undergraduate students through hands-on interaction with the Israeli economy. A participant in TAMID’s recent Consult LA competition, Daniel Newman, shares how the program has influenced his life. You can read his post below. I’ve been interested in Israeli innovation since childhood.  Growing up, I learned about PillCam, MobileEye, Intel Israel, and many more companies that have impacted millions of  Read More…

A Common Fight: Why Christians and Jews are Coming Together to Defeat Hate and Intolerance

By Pastor Carlos Ortiz and Adam Milstein Article originally posted on The Huffington Post For the first time in 1,600 years, there are no Christians left in Mosul. This once-thriving Christian community in Iraq has been completely decimated by radical Islamists – like so many others across the Middle East – with thousands fleeing their families’ ancient homes when faced with death or brutal persecution at the hands of ISIS. The emergence of ISIS has been a particularly grave turn of events for Christians. Just last month, Secretary of State John Kerry and the House of Representatives said that ISIS  Read More…

The 25 Most Influential People in the “Jewish Twitterverse”

Original post can be found on Ha’aretz by Gabe Friedman JTA – Ten years ago this week, Twitter was born. Never ones to miss a good conversation, Jews quickly adopted the social network, and they haven’t stopped kibitzing since. To celebrate the birth of this post-modern Talmud, we’ve updated JTA’s 2009 list of the “100 Most Influential Jewish Twitterers” (which helped a young woman escape her family’s cult-like church, as recounted in the New Yorker. No big deal.) Our new list — pared down to just the top 25 Twitter mavens — reflects a changed Jewish Twitter world. Among the rabbis, officials, journalists and other machers who made the cut in  Read More…

The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2015

This post was originally on the Algemeiner In honor of The Algemeiner’s 3rd annual JEWISH 100 Gala, we are delighted to unveil the third Algemeiner Jewish 100 list of the top one hundred individuals who have positively influenced Jewish life this past year. Before you work your way through this exciting list, we wanted to first share some of the thoughts that we discussed as we developed this endeavor. If we could group these ideas together, the first would be about creating lists, in general; then, what’s unique about lists and Judaism; some finer points differentiating our honorees from the organizations they  Read More…

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Leaders Hate America: Listen To Their Own Words!

The original article can be found on The Huffington Post In recent years, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has steadily advanced a poisonous culture of hate and anti-Semitism in our country. Across college campuses and in churches, in labor unions, academic institutions and in shareholder meetings of American Corporations, they have sought to demonize the State of Israel, with the eventual goal of destroying it. Yet, what many do not realize is that the BDS agenda threatens not only the Middle East’s one democratic state; it threatens the entire democratic world, and the U.S. is in the eye of  Read More…

Israeli-Americans make a home in the US, but remain a strategic asset for our Jewish homeland

This article was originally posted on The Jerusalem Post On Sunday, the Israeli-American Council will host the IAC Los Angeles Gala 2016, marking a moment of new public prominence for our organization – and its rapid growth across the US. In the past three years, we have expanded from a single office and a few hundred members in Los Angeles, into a national movement with 10 regional offices – 250,000 members and growing – and a range of groundbreaking national programs. Yet, we are not just building America’s fastest-growing Jewish organization, we are creating a new identity. Before we founded  Read More…

An AIPAC Campus Allies alumnus shares his story

This was originally posted on the Times of Israel Blog The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation proudly supports AIPAC’s Campus Allies Mission, which brings non-Jewish, pro-Israel political activists to Israel for the first time. The on-the-ground experiences in the Holy Land teach participants about the importance of the United States-Israel relationship and gives them a deeper understanding of Israel’s strategic, social, and security issues, right in the heart of the Holy Land. Stephen Fiehler, an alumnus of our Campus Allies, has shared how the Campus Allies Mission has impacted his life and view of Israel. You can read his story below. My AIPAC Campus  Read More…