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Our Promise to You:
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🌟 Discounts on future Global Jewish Future products
📑 A legal tax-receipt from your choice of the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, the European Union, or Israel
Making an Investment
We combine the best of both worlds — a private company and a non-profit organization — to create the most impact, in the most time-efficient and resource-efficient ways.
If you are interested in making a significant contribution ($1,000 USD or more), please contact us to schedule a 1-on-1 video call with our founder, Joshua Hoffman.
Our Vision: Creating an Electric Jewish Future
Everything we do is with the burning passion to create a world where:
✡️ The Jewish People are united and thriving.
🙏 Judaism and the Jewish People are tremendously respected by the greater world.
🇮🇱 Israel is known as one of the world's hottest destinations, both for travel and lifestyle.
Our Mission
- To maximize Jewish empowerment at the individual, communal, national, and global levels
- To create connection, points of intersection, and community among the collective Jewish People, and between the Jewish People and our non-Jewish family and friends
- To significantly diminish the effects of antisemitism and anti-Israel by enhancing Judaism and the Jewish People’s image throughout the world
Two Escalating Global Problems
Problem # 1: There’s an unprecedented divide growing between Jews and their Jewish identity, and an unprecedented divide growing between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, as well as religious and secular Jews. This is producing disastrous consequences for Jewish communities and organizations, the State of Israel, and the Jewish People as a whole.
Problem # 2: Antisemitism and anti-Israel are quickly spiraling out of control across the world, with Jews inadvertently propagating these movements in some cases. Furthermore, organizations claiming to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel are unaligned, non-scalable, fiscally challenged, highly bureaucratic, simply ineffective, or a combination thereof.
Our Unique Insight: A Global Growth Engine for Jewish Empowerment
At the heart of both of these global problems is authentic Jewish empowerment, which encourages us Jews — and, by extension, our non-Jewish family and friends — to proudly participate in our culture and be firm in our respect and admiration for our historical legacy.
When we strengthen Jewish empowerment, we will strengthen our Jewish identity, which will strengthen our image in the world. This, in turn, will greatly diminish the effects and anguish of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.
Yes, it's true: many Jewish organizations have tried this approach, but without worldwide scale, and without the most important part: their own technologies.
This is where the global growth engine comes into play: Using our own technology as a formidable backbone, we can create and deliver premium products, services, and experiences for the entire Jewish world — all designed to make this engine increasingly successful, scaleable, and self-sustainable!
Why Jewish empowerment?
- When people are empowered, they act with great authenticity, intentionality, self-confidence, and self-activation.
- Empowerment might be expressed as leadership, expertise, commitment, and/or cultural competence.
- Empowerment occupies an important place on a spectrum of Jewish involvement, ranging from outreach to personal Jewish sovereignty.
Source: “Jewish empowerment: developing language to aim higher” (eJewish Philanthropy)
It turns out, an increasing number of Jews are disempowered nowadays.
Why is this the case?
- The types of Judaism and/or Israel they have been exposed to do not align with their interests, desires, values, expectations, or some combination thereof.
- The vast majority of Jewish organizations lack the capabilities, bandwidth, know-how, and scale to effectively engage them on a consistent and continuous basis.
- Misinformation, propaganda, gossip and hearsay, rumors, incomplete information, and antisemitic or anti-Israel messages (both subtle and overt)
The Challenge in Front of Us
Yes, it’s true: many Jewish organizations have tried this “Jewish empowerment” approach, but without worldwide scale, and without the most important part: their own technologies.
This is where the global growth engine comes into play: Using our own proprietary technology, we can create and scale premium products, services, and experiences for the Jewish world — all designed to maximize authentic Jewish empowerment and make the engine increasingly successful, scaleable, and self-sustainable!
Technology isn’t just a nice word to use; it’s how the most amount of data is collected to make the most strategic decisions, how every industry functions today, and how change-making happens on a global scale. Why should the Jewish world be any different?
A global growth engine, powered by scalable technology, allows us to take on a challenge that no other Jewish organization has successfully solved for: Jews across the world think and act in different Jewish ways, to different degrees, in different languages, with different desires and preferences, across different cultures, customs, affiliations, and ages.
A technology-powered global growth engine enables us to accommodate all of these differences efficiently, effectively, and at scale — in order to empower every Jew across the world to authentically connect with and deepen their individual Jewish identity!
And, in doing so, it positions us to strengthen Jewish communities, Jewish Peoplehood, Jewish nationhood, and relationships with our non-Jewish family and friends!
The Solution: Our Big Hairy Audacious Strategy
We are building the first and only global Jewish empowerment brand, with a focus on creativity, innovation, storytelling, experiences, and community.
💼 Headquartered in the Jewish capital of cool — Tel Aviv
🎁 "Online" and "offline" product offerings (physical products, digital products, and community products)
📲 Powered by Israeli technology, developed in Israel
🕍 Serving individuals, communities, and organizations
⚖️ Hybrid private company-nonprofit structure
🌍 Accessible worldwide in multiple languages
A Different Type of Jewish Organization
“Labor without enterprise is the stationary labor of ancient days. We do not depend only on the circulation of old commodities, because we produce new ones.” — Theodor Herzl, Father of Modern Zionism
Global Jewish Future is a different type of Jewish organization: a global Jewish empowerment brand platform, with a focus on technology, creativity, storytelling, experiences, and community.
In other words, we are leveraging the power of hi-tech to create and scale products, services, and experiences which inspire Jews across the world — and those intrigued by the Jewish world — to be increasingly engaged, empowered, intentional, and activated with regard to Judaism, Jewishness, Israel, and the Jewish People.
But, to realize our ambitious vision and mission, we have to do much more than build great, scalable technology. We have to build a new kind of Jewish organization.
The Front End
On the front end, this new kind of Jewish organization must unlock the Internet’s scale and democratizing power, and empower individuals and communities to “live their best Jewish lives.”
This is why we’re combining the power of brand and platform to creatively promote and strengthen Jewish empowerment worldwide.
By brand, we mean a pervasive and particular identity or image that is known for:
- Premium products and remarkable experiences
- Fresh, new ideas
- Exciting discoveries
- Meaning and value
- Connection and community
By platform, we mean a growing “marketplace” that:
- Features unlimited third-party “channels,” such as Jewish organizations, thought leaders, creatives, innovators, and influencers
- Welcomes a wide variety of viewpoints, perspectives, and ideas
- Allows people to connect with the Jewish world’s creators and innovators
While every Jewish organization is competing against each other and jostling for position in the Jewish world, we're building a global Jewish empowerment brand platform for all of them to thrive!
The Back End
On the back end, this new kind of Jewish organization must use sound and emerging business practices, and vigilantly work toward self-sustainability.
As such, we combine the best of both worlds of a private company and non-profit organization to create the most impact, in the most time-efficient and resource-efficient ways.
Our nonprofit arm is responsible for all human expenses — the Jewish People’s “best and brightest” professionals — such as employees, agencies, freelancers and contractors, influencers, content producers, Israel government relations, and partnerships.
Our private company is tasked with covering all non-human costs, like technology infrastructure, affiliates, advertising, marketing, branding, and performance-related bonuses and stock options for employees.
The private company also kicks back a percentage of its revenues, making our nonprofit arm completely self-sustainable in five years’ time!
To be clear: Our private company and nonprofit are two separate organizations, with two separate bank accounts, boards of directors, etc.
Getting Started: The First of 1,000 Steps
NEGEV is the first version of our global Jewish empowerment brand platform, which we launched in Spring 2023.
It’s a smartphone and tablet application (available for download on Apple and Android devices) that offers an incredibly diverse experience of Judaism and Israel, all in one place, so you can easily immerse yourself in the Jewish world, according to your passions and interests.
From religion and spirituality, to culture and lifestyle, philosophy and history, Hebrew and Yiddish, Israel, and more, NEGEV is the most comprehensive Jewish experience on the planet!
NEGEV is the largest globally available library of Jewish and Israel content, featuring more than 7,000 of the best videos, articles, and podcasts — with tons of fresh content added daily!
NEGEV is an all-access platform — available on-demand, worldwide, and as much as you want.
Our Unique Operating Structure
We combine the best of both worlds — a private company and a non-profit organization — to create the most impact, in the most time-efficient and resource-efficient ways.**
Our private company is financially responsible for all non-human elements, such as:
- Technology Infrastructure
- Content Distribution
- Affiliates
- Advertising & Marketing
- Branding
- Bonuses and Stock Options
Our non-profit organization is financially responsible for all human elements (the Jewish People’s “best and brightest” — more on this below), such as:
- Employees
- Agencies
- Freelancers & Contractors
- Influencers
- Content Production
- Advocacy & Outreach
- Israeli Government Relations
- Partnerships
** Two separate organizations, bank accounts, boards of directors, etc.
This brings us to the key to making our grand vision a reality.
Unfortunately, the current Jewish workplace does not typically attract the Jewish People’s “best and brightest” at every level of an organization.
“People are the most important assets of organizations, yet many of our Jewish workplace cultures do not reflect this important truth,” according to Gali Cooks, Executive Director of Leading Edge.*
- Only 38% of Jewish workplace employees feel they have opportunities for advancement at their organization*
- Only 42% believe their salary is fair relative to similar roles at their organization*
- Only 42% think there are enough people to do the work they need to do*
- Only 46% say the organization’s performance review process helps them grow and improve*
- Only 62% say their systems and processes generally support them in getting work done effectively*
- Only 64% say their organization provides them with sufficient opportunities for professional development*
* source: 2021 Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey
We are on a mission to make working in the Jewish world remarkably enjoyable, creatively challenging, deeply meaningful, highly collaborative, extraordinarily innovative, growth-oriented, and equally rewarding for all employees.
Why? Because we believe that, to solve the Jewish world’s biggest problems, we must attract and retain the Jewish People’s “best and brightest” professionals — and put them in a position to work together on solving the Jewish world’s biggest problems!
Many of the Jewish People’s “best and brightest” professionals currently work in hi-tech, finance, and other major industries. This means we have to attract and retain them through four primary vehicles:
💰 Hyper-Competitive Compensation: We offer salary, benefits, and the like competitive with other hi-tech firms.
💪 Autonomy & Agility: We welcome workplace flexibility, creative freedom, and work-life harmony.
💗 Development & Growth: We invest in ongoing, self-regulated employee development, and favor in-house promotion.
📈 Capitalist Kibbutz: All employees receive stock options and other performance-related perks.
Meet Our Founder: Joshua Hoffman
Quick Facts:
- 34 years old
- Previously founded Tel Aviv Presents and IZZY – Stream Israel
- Author of three books, most recently “Journeys of the Jewish Spirit” (available on Amazon)
- Former marketing and branding strategist
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism
A message from Joshua:
Once upon a time, I was the least-likely candidate to conceive Global Jewish Future. I was born and raised in a Reform Jewish household in Los Angeles. But as I grew older, I became exponentially uninterested in any form of Judaism.
Then, in 2013, just before my 24th birthday, I reluctantly took my Taglit-Birthright Israel trip — only because it was free. It was my first time in Israel and my first real exposure to Israeli culture, society, and history.
It was also the first time in my life that I felt proud to be Jewish and a true love of the Jewish People, both past and present. And it was also the first time I saw Judaism as a core part of my identity and future.
So, halfway through this 10-day trip, I called my parents to tell them I loved the trip, and Israel, so much, that I am not boarding the airplane back to Los Angeles.
Instead, I started building a life in Israel and became a dual American-Israeli citizen. I’ve been living in Tel Aviv ever since.
In 2013, I began discovering the value of Judaism — both for Jews past, present, and future, and for our value to the greater world.
I also started to realize the extraordinary challenges that Judaism and the Jewish People face, which served as the impetus for Global Jewish Future.
However, if there is anything I have learned while living in Israel and being an Israeli citizen since 2013, it is that opportunity often exists in adversity.
This notion is nothing new to Jews, and it is only fitting that we are tasked, yet again, with writing (and in some cases, rewriting) a manual for our immediate and long-term future amidst such challenges!
I understand that not all of us can or even want to dedicate their lives to the Jewish future.
But I am confident that there are more than enough of us who can lead the charge, while our fellow Jewish family and friends — as well as our non-Jewish family and friends who appreciate and support us — will chip in what, when, and where they can.
Wherever you fall on this spectrum, I am optimistic that you will join us in cherishing our impeccable ancestry, kickstarting global solidarity amongst the Jews of today, and ultimately paving an exhiliarating path for the Jewish People for generations to come!
Our Motivation: Why We Are Doing This
💝 We care deeply about the Jewish historical legacy and want to do our part in continuing the amazing Jewish story — not just Judaism and the Jewish People's surviving, but our thriving.
⚠️ We are troubled by a variety of negative-trending problems (i.e. Jewish disengagement, antisemitism) that are quickly becoming worse across the world.
🏭 The existing Jewish “industry” has collectively demonstrated an incapability and incompetence to solve these problems on a global scale.
❓ We subscribe to the Jewish wisdom: “If not us, who? If not now, when?”
✡️ We believe Judaism enhances people’s lives and continues to make the world a better place.
💓 We imagine a world where Judaism, the Jewish People, and Israel are a growing source of interest, excitement, and fascination — both for Jews and non-Jews across the world, for generations to come!
Shalom Shalom
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