133: Wartime Diaries - Charlene Seidle

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Upwards of $1 billion in donations have been sent to Israel since the start of the war. For years Charlene Seidle, the Executive Vice President of the San Diego-based Leichtag Foundation, has been at the forefront of the Jewish philanthropic world. While the Leichtag Foundation supports various causes in the States and in Israel, their main local focus is bridging social and economic gaps in Jerusalem. They’ve given life to hundreds of grassroots initiatives and have created the ‘Jerusalem Model’ - a diverse network of social entrepreneurs, activists and leaders from all sectors around town - Jews, Muslims, Christians, religious, secular, etc. Since Charlene and her team have been nurturing and cultivating these relationships for so long, they were particularly well-situated to understand the needs on the ground in the immediate aftermath of October 7th.

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0:00.0	you know, nothing in like philanthropy school prepares you for managing a diverse staff in a time of war.
0:07.0	I mean, nothing prepares you for having a few people on your staff that are deployed into Gaza or whose spouses were to having also people on your staff, you know, close colleagues whose cousins are in Gaza and are having to evacuate where they are or have been
0:23.6	killed. Hey listeners, it's Mishi. As you can hear, I'm a bit under the weather. So our annual
0:31.3	listener drive is now officially over. And I want to thank each and every one of you for your
0:37.1	generosity and for saying loud
0:39.3	and clear that you feel there's a need, especially these days, for our brand of storytelling,
0:46.5	storytelling that amplifies the diverse voices we're hearing among and around us, and tries to
0:52.5	capture slivers of life right now.
0:56.1	Though our campaign was a big success, we still raised only about 10% of our annual budget.
1:03.3	And while most of our funds come from foundations, we do rely heavily on listener support.
1:09.1	Which is to say that if you want to pitch in and didn't
1:12.7	get the chance to do so during the campaign, you can always head to our site, IsraelStory.org,
1:19.6	and hit that wonderfully tempting, support us button.
1:24.2	And that's actually a pretty good segue into our episode today, because one of the most
1:29.4	heartening aspects of the war was the manner in which people around the world, and especially
1:35.0	Jews around the world, rallied behind Israel, and started sending over money, equipment, and
1:41.8	support. There are all kinds of estimates floating around, but most of them
1:46.4	talk of upward of $1 billion, some say even significantly more than a billion dollars,
1:53.4	that were sent to Israel since October 7th. And that too is part, even a major part, of the story of the war.
2:02.7	For years, Charlene Seidel, the executive vice president of the San Diego-based
2:07.6	Leishtag Foundation, has been at the forefront of the Jewish philanthropic world.
2:13.2	The Lechthag Foundation supports all kinds of causes, both in the States and here in Israel,
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