Legacy Jewish institutions are pivoting to meet the moment. But do we even still need them?

Legacy Jewish institutions are pivoting to meet the moment. But do we even still need them?

Over the last century, North American Jews have poured untold millions of dollars into an alphabet soup of legacy institutions: UJA, CIJA, ADL, JNF, et al. And yet, after 19 months of rising antisemitism—while Canadian and American Jewish communities feel like they’re free-falling through a crisis—many have been asking, “What have we been giving all this money for? Where are the results?” To wit, two recent pieces published in the New York Post …