Jewish Funds for Justice
The Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) was an American charity based in New York. In 2005, Simon Greer became its President and CEO. In 2011, Progressive Jewish Alliance merged with Jewish Funds for Justice and became a new organization, Bend the Arc. History. The original Jewish Fund for Justice was created in 1984. Si Kahn and David Tobin spent eighteen months organizing the Fund. Its first board chair was Kahn and its first executive director was Lois Roisman. Ruth Wisse argues that the Jewish Fund for Justice is one of a number of left-of-center  Jewish organizations founded in the 1980s without explaining why a new, specifically Jewish charity was needed, in her view, the actual motivation was a need felt by highly educated people to counter rising antisemitism by means of "public avowals of kindliness and liberalism." Jewish Funds for Justice was created in 2006 when the Jewish Fund for Justice merged with The Shefa Fund, which had been founded in 1990. Jewish Funds for Justice then merged with Spark: The Partnership for Jewish Service in February 2007. While Jewish Funds for Justice is one of many Jewish organizations that received funding from the  Open Society Foundations for one of its projects, Jewish Funds for Justice did not receive any other funding from George Soros or his philanthropies. On June 1, 2011, Progressive Jewish Alliance merged with Jewish Funds for Justice, adopting the name Bend the Arc in 2012.