Over 183,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoes during the past 16 years, producing a devastating impact not only for individuals addicted to opiates and their families, but to society as a whole. Judaism mandates an affirmative duty to care for the sick (Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 336:1...

Interview with Beth Sirull, President & CEO, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

Q. What was JCF San Diego's process to consider impact investing?

A. We realized that impact investing is where the world is headed, and we need to stay ahead of the curve. We partnered with JLens to help us ge...

Last week, the Vatican invited JLens to participate in a conference on religions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of seventeen ambitious goals to address current global problems by the year 2030. The conference brought together hundreds of participants representing e...

JLens is thrilled to have Hadassah as an investor and supporter of our mission! Janice Weinman, CEO of Hadassah, spoke with Rabbi Jacob Siegel of JLens about Hadassah’s decision to invest in JLens’ Jewish Advocacy Strategy.

Q. What was the motivating factor to engage in values-based investing...

 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 Bank. While hundreds of companies are pressured by BDS activists, and some European companies have acquiesced and cut ties...

Leichtag's challenge investment seeks to grow JLens' Jewish Advocacy Strategy above $100 million

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 on Jewish...

JLens' position on gun violence and investing is influenced by Jewish tradition which generally views weapons unfavorably, seeing them as unsavory tools to be used only as a last resort.

One of the foundational texts about weapons comes from the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 2:4), who declared t...

JLens was asked to convene Jewish institutions to consider how they might further the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in advance of the 2017 Faith in Finance Summit held in Switzerland by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation in partnership with the United Nations and the Organizatio...

"There is no guarantee," your financial advisor explains. "But a new investment called a Social Impact Bond could return a profit in excess of 10%, if the project out-performs. Best of all, your investment will help address one of Boston’s biggest social issues and support the work of an impor...

My name is Rabbi Josh Ratner and I am the Director of Advocacy at JLens, a Jewish values-based investor network that owns thousands of shares of Merck.

We applaud Merck for its pharmaceutical applications, vaccine research, and access to medicine programs that offer affordable drug pricing to d...