Social Responsibility & Philanthropy

As the month of May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, many of us wonder when and how the month of May was dedicated, and why more than ever this month is important to celebrate and acknowledge.

There is no direct antecedent to our modern secular celebration of mothers, but it has existed, one way or another, for thousands of years. Here’s a timeline: – Antiquarians and…

The impulse to create a memory and make it tangible is so very human — to hold it, and repeatedly commemorate it is also a very Jewish value … When we participate in remembrance, we help to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was born in Austria to elegance, affluence, and education, and with her immediate family, was lucky to be among the few and fortunate able to escape Nazi-controlled Austria in the late-1930s. After her family landed in Brooklyn a few years later, she went on to become a brilliant fixture in New York bridal fashion, in particular — a trendsetter who made New York shoppers feel among the lucky and fortunate.

Going to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an important trip to make. The in-person experience is significant, profound, and unforgettable, and luckily for those not in the Washington D.C. area, the Museum website offers a rich remembrance as well.

Murdered and missing Indigenous women in state such as Montana is an ongoing crisis: challenging state and local crime units and causing horrific grief to the families involved. Young women whose bodies are not found for month, even years, give some slight closure to their loved ones at burial. But for many more that are never found, their families will suffer, not knowing whether their daughters, nieces, wives, or friends are alive or dead.

American entrepreneur, media mogul, and philanthropist Ted Turner is the man with the plan behind the more than 100,000-acre Flying D Ranch in Gallatin, Montana. Maintaining vast tracts of land as habitat is a great responsibility and a delicate balance that can only be maintained by following a thoughtful, wide-ranging plan.

Anne, the Princess Royal, inherited her family’s love of life with horses and became the first British royal to compete in international equestrian events. Anne truly is the “hardest working royal” on behalf of horses and equestrian philanthropies.

It was the Roaring Twenties. Flappers raised their hemlines and lowered their morals. Prohibition was law since 1917, when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned “the manufacture, sale,…

HOUR BY HOUR, DAY BY DAY, the eyes of the free world look to Ukraine as it is besieged by Putin’s Russia: watching, waiting, and praying that somehow, by the grace of God, mankind will avert a third World War. Whether we shall—or not—is yet to be seen. ELYSIAN’s mantra is ”Women Inspiring Women.” Now, more than ever, we are inspired to honor the magnificent women of the Ukraine in this Special Edition Newsletter. Many Ukrainian women have died. Many more will die—but not one will have died in vain. For their relentless courage and abiding love for freedom is a shining beacon that will evermore endure and light the way for all women, everywhere—now, and till the End of Time.

Wife, mother, former screenwriter, and a graduate of Kryvyi Rih National University in civil engineering, the 44-year-old First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, ranks 30 among the most influential Ukrainians by Focus magazine. When her husband assumed office as the 6th President of Ukraine in 2019, Olena announced her first initiative was to reform the country’s school nutrition system and developed a complex program with Chef Levgen Klopotenko of CultFood to improve the provision of resources to children. Then, on February 24, 2022, she was forced to change her priorities from healthy living to sheer survival when Russia invaded her country.

With Ukraine under attack, its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has stepped in to help and protect the country that he knows, loves, and leads.