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August 27, 2019

Kosher and Halal Slaughter is being Vilified in Europe. Here’s What Concerned Investors Can Do About It

On Sept. 1, the picturesque region of Wallonia will become the second in Belgium to ban killing animals without stunning them, rendering both kosher and…

July 24, 2019

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‘Jewish Values’ Investors Are Targeting An Israeli Company — For The First Time

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a poster child for Israeli economic success. Built from a group of companies founded in the early years of the 20th…

March 21, 2019

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JLens Represents Jewish Communal Capital at Interreligious Vatican Summit

Recently, the Vatican invited JLens to participate in a conference on religions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of seventeen ambitious goals…

November 27, 2018

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Airbnb Abandons CSR Values by Acquiescing to Anti-Israel BDS Campaign

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…

October 24, 2018

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JLens Receives $10m Impact Investment from Leichtag Foundation

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…

April 16, 2018

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Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?

Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from…

April 10, 2018

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Israel: The Startup Charitable Nation

Throughout the world, Israel is known as the “startup nation,” where investors are increasingly drawn to the innovation and brainpower that are its greatest natural…

February 21, 2018

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Can Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.

For all of its modern history, the American Jewish community has pursued most of its goals through philanthropy — funding programs and institutions through donations…

December 15, 2017

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JLens Hosts First Impact Investing Summit for Jewish Communal Leadership

Some 300 Jewish communal leaders and finance professionals, including a number who traveled from Israel, attended the first Jewish Impact Investing Summit in New York…

December 7, 2017

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Jewish-Lens Investors Ask “Why Impact”

As interest in impact investing grows, faith-based communities are recognizing its power to advance their values. JLens Investor Network hosted its first summit at Fordham…

Impact Stories

Kosher and Halal Slaughter is being Vilified in Europe. Here’s What Concerned Investors Can Do About It

‘Jewish Values’ Investors Are Targeting An Israeli Company — For The First Time

JLens Represents Jewish Communal Capital at Interreligious Vatican Summit

Airbnb Abandons CSR Values by Acquiescing to Anti-Israel BDS Campaign

JLens Receives $10m Impact Investment from Leichtag Foundation

Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?

Israel: The Startup Charitable Nation

Can Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.

JLens Hosts First Impact Investing Summit for Jewish Communal Leadership

Jewish-Lens Investors Ask “Why Impact”

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