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OPINION | "As Israeli society grapples with existential questions about national service and social cohesion, the work of ISTS offers a clear message: solutions are already here. They just need support, goodwill and scaling." By Dar Nadler ejphil.com/3yp9w

OPINION: "The terms of the war that began with those horrific events have been dictated by the conditions imposed by Hamas...Spuriously charging Israel with genocide does not change this incontrovertible fact." By Michael Berenbaum & Menachem Z. Rosensaft ejphil.com/3yp3m

After months of preparation, 25 Moroccan educators stepped off a plane in Berlin and into history. “The Journey From Hate to Hope” is a weeklong program aimed at equipping them with the tools to teach the Holocaust in Arabic through a North African lens. ejphil.com/3yex8

OPINION | "Instead of regulating what our teachers can teach, our schools should openly and officially help students investigate both history and current events in Israel for themselves." By Joelle Keene ejphil.com/3yesx

OPINION | "A reminder that true blessing often unfolds quietly. For far too long, female rabbinic leaders have been ha-samui min ha-ayin — concealed from view, not counted, not fully seen." By Rabba Sara Hurwitz ejphil.com/3yepz

OPINION | "Foundling syndrome describes what happens when a founder exits and the structure that appeared solid under their leadership turns out to be a collection of habits, workarounds and personal relationships." By Avi S. Olitzky ejphil.com/3yayi

To understand what the Jewish community can learn from a new @GivingUSA report, eJewishPhilanthropy sat down with Avrum Lapin, the president of the Lapin Group, a fundraising and management consulting firm for nonprofits. Read the full interview: ejphil.com/3yar2

OPINION | "If we believe Jewish joy is essential and transformational, then we must ask: Where does that transformational power go when childhood ends? ... One answer lies in an underutilized yet rapidly growing model: Jewish retreating." By Eliana Leader ejphil.com/3y6y5

OPINION | "Israel’s chronic teacher shortage is a persistent challenge facing the country." By Tomer Samarkandi ejphil.com/3y6qq

OPINION | "Grief is not a competition — we are each entitled to feel our own pain, to mourn our own losses, even when we know that others have it worse than us. Sometimes, we also need to let ourselves grieve." By Rabbi Marc Israel ejphil.com/3x2d5

For 16 years, Jewish philanthropist Harley Lippman has enlisted and funded a team in Poland to research, locate and memorialize those killed and buried in mass graves. According to Lippman, the initiative started with a bar mitzvah project. ejphil.com/3ynw8

Your Daily Phil: With ‘nonprofit bill,’ growing needs, Israeli civil society feels the squeeze • How a bar mitzvah project led to an ongoing effort to find, commemorate mass graves from the Holocaust • It is not genocide: A response to Omer Bartov ejphil.com/3ynkq

#BREAKING Morey Levovitz and Steve Weil, the chair and CEO of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraising group, have resigned, two sources connected to FIDF told @eJPhil. This comes 3 weeks after a damning internal probe was leaked to @ynetalerts.

BREAKING | Three weeks after an internal Friends of the Israel Defense Forces investigation was leaked, the group’s beleaguered chair and CEO have both resigned, two sources told eJewishPhilanthropy. EXCLUSIVE report from @JudahAriGross: ejphil.com/3yn7r

Your Daily Phil: Israeli-led trip brings Moroccan educators to Europe to study Holocaust • Reflections on Yeshivat Maharat’s Semicha 2025 • This just in: Let day school students teach themselves, and each other, about Israel through journalism ejphil.com/3yeju

The board of the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces is moving to force Morey Levovitz, the embattled chair, from his post in response to growing controversy surrounding his tenure, sources told eJewishPhilanthropy. @JudahAriGross reports: ejphil.com/3yane

.@uriltzedek, which has brought lessons from the Torah into the social justice ecosystem for nearly 20 years, is expanding into advocacy work in Washington. “One of the big dreams was to expand nationally,” said @RavShmuly, the organization’s president. ejphil.com/3yafv

Your Daily Phil: Same old engagement won’t cut it with next-gen donors, consultant says • Orthodox social justice group expands to D.C. • Jewish Voice for Peace restructures, sets sights on ballot box • The organizational orphaning no one talks about ejphil.com/3yacg

Your Daily Phil: Firing interfaith specialist, USCJ signals shift away from accepting ‘mixed marriages’ • Education must not pay the price of war yet again • Jewish retreating: A smart investment in Jewish joy and community ejphil.com/3y63p

The Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to hire interim CEO Jamie Simon to serve in the role in a permanent capacity beginning Tuesday, the organization said. ejphil.com/3x24x