History
The original Jewish Fund for Justice (JFJ) 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.
JFSJ was created in its current form in 2006 when the Jewish Fund for Justice merged with The Shefa Fund (founded in 1990). JFSJ then merged with Spark: The Partnership for Jewish Service in February, 2007. While JFSJ is one of many Jewish organizations that receives funding from the Open Society Foundation for one of its projects, it does not receive any other funding from George Soros or his philanthropies
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