by Debrah Charatan | Apr 15, 2020 | blog
With every passing day, there are fewer people who remember the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand. As of 2016, only 100,000 of the Jews who were in camps, ghettos, and hiding from Nazi oppression during the Holocaust were still alive to share their stories, with the...
by Debrah Charatan | Mar 6, 2020 | blog, Philanthropy
We’ve seen therapy cats, dogs, horses and now — robots? Earlier this year, Chai Lifeline announced that it would be launching Zenbo, a companion robot, to help Toronto-area children stay spirited in the face of illness and isolation. This cheerful bot was...
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 | 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 | 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...
