by Debrah Charatan | Mar 6, 2020 | Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
This article, by Gillian Wood, was originally published on Medium. Ask a philanthropist why they started giving, and you’ll usually find that they have a story to tell. In Debrah Lee Charatan’s case, that story isn’t hers, but her parents’. Charatan, a real estate...
by Debrah Charatan | Nov 11, 2019 | blog, Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
In the first week of October, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the American Library Association (ALM) released a list of the fifty libraries selected to host a touring version of the USHMM’s Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which will...
by Debrah Charatan | Oct 7, 2019 | blog, Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, many people across the world reacted in shock at the news and photographs documenting the brutality suffered by the Jewish people in concentration camps across Europe. As Jewish support groups and organizations cropped...
by Debrah Charatan | Jun 13, 2019 | blog, Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
The Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2018, an event which is also seeing positive ripple effects into 2019. In honor of the occasion, the committee and the Central Park Conservancy’s Campaign, Forever Green: Ensuring...
by Debrah Charatan | Jan 7, 2019 | blog, Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
In November, The Jewish Museum and Film Society of the Lincoln Center announced that the 28th New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) will be held from January 9 – January 22, 2019. The annual cultural event presents the finest narratives, documentaries and short...
by Debrah Charatan | Dec 4, 2018 | Cultural Organizations, Philanthropy
The Jewish Museum and New York Public Library have jointly acquired the full collection of 57 gouache illustrations by Maira Kalman for the 2005 edition of The Elements of Style. The Elements of Style is a grammar reference book originally published by William Strunk...
