April 27, 2020
JLens is hosting the second Jewish Impact Investing Summit virtually (via Zoom) on May 18 & 19, 2020 from 12-3pm EST both days. Impact investing is a new name for an old idea - that values ought to inform investment decisions. Recently, impact investing has grown into an influential global are...
February 13, 2020
The following communication was sent to CSR leaders at the 300 companies in JLens' Jewish Advocacy Strategy. These companies represent the most influential US public companies.
Dear Corporate Social Responsibility & Investor Relations colleagues:
I am writing on behalf of our investors to...
November 21, 2019
JLens is pleased to announce the 2019 list of “Most Kosher" US Companies. Four years ago, JLens created the Jewish Advocacy Strategy to invest in the 300 largest and most influential US public corporations in order to conduct investor advocacy on behalf of the Jewish community.
JLens considere...
June 4, 2019
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...
April 16, 2019
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...
March 22, 2019
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...
February 1, 2019
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...
November 27, 2018
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...
October 24, 2018
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...
May 19, 2018
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...
