3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (139+ words) While "peoplehood," "shared fate" and "destiny" may sound abstract, they are the scaffolding of our communal and global enterprise. In response, some readers asked: Why now? What has changed? What is the urgency? Peoplehood scholar Rogers Smith identifies two core…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (626+ words) 'A generation of rabbis, cantors and educators were blessed to study Hebrew Bible with her' Rabbi Andrea Weiss, the first woman to ordain Reform rabbis and cantors, died on Tuesday at her home in Lower Merion, Pa., after a battle…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (550+ words) We should recruit, educate and graduate rabbis who are mobile, specialized, networked and intellectually generative. Over the past year or so, much has been written about rabbis " their spiritual development, how they view their preparation, their career paths and the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (827+ words) Throughout the Jewish world in North America, we have built up resources to support Jewish life: curricula for Hebrew schools, speaker series for synagogues, professional networks for employees across communal institutions, even program ideas for young adult Shabbat dinners. There…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (760+ words) Bret Stephens, in his "State of World Jewry" address at the 92nd Street Y on Feb. 1, was right about something fundamental: Jewish strength begins with Jewish identity. A people that does not know who it is cannot endure. Identity anchors continuity,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1169+ words) Chaya Yosovich speaks at the 2025 Yael Foundation conference in Cyprus. Yosovich, who came to the Yael Foundation in late 2023, spent over a decade as CEO of the Shema Yisroel network of Jewish schools in the former Soviet Union " a significant…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (476+ words) This year's Super Bowl wasn't just about football. It wasn't just touchdowns and halftime shows. For millions of Americans tuning in to watch the biggest event on television, it was also a moment of exposure " however fleeting " to a truth…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1070+ words) A reckoning for the "combating antisemitism complex'eJewishPhilanthropy A reckoning for the "combating antisemitism complex Still image from the Blue Square Alliance's commercial for the 2026 Superbowl. There have always been grumblings and mumblings and rumblings about the efficacy of the Jewish…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (544+ words) The Jewish Education Project'and'Civic Spirit'are hosting a daylong summit today in New York focused on civic education in Jewish day schools and American Jewish identity. What he did reveal:'continued work on an $82 million flagship school in Cyprus, and plans…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (478+ words) Donation builds on existing relationship with Tel Hai College, which is becoming Kiryat Shmona University in the Galilee, and long-standing ties between Canadian Jewry and northern Israel Representatives from the Roadburg Foundation and Kiryat Shmona University of the Galilee stand…...