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The shifting religious landscape and its implications for American liberal Judaism
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (809+ words) The shifting religious landscape and its implications for American liberal Judaism'eJewishPhilanthropy The shifting religious landscape and its implications for American liberal Judaism Several factors shape the state of liberal Jewish space today, in many ways echoing shifts in America's larger…...
For many Israeli civil society leaders, this conflict with Iran feels different
20+ hour, 1+ min ago (424+ words) People enter a bomb shelter in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona amid the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah on March 12, 2026. Whatever the cause, funders and nonprofit leaders in Israel are describing a marked drop in engagement from their…...
Shalva raises $3M for new disability center in southern Israel named for slain Sharabis
1+ day, 16+ min ago (467+ words) 'When I came out of captivity, I told Shalva that there is one place where I would like to have my wife and daughters remembered, and that is the Shalva center,' freed hostage Eli Sharabi says Freed hostage Eli Sharabi…...
Your Daily Phil: Why this round of fighting in Israel feels different
19+ hour, 36+ min ago (510+ words) Teach Coalition's New York branch'is in Albany today, trying to push lawmakers to support measures for Jewish day schools in the state.' The annual weeklong SXSW'festival kicks off today in Austin, Texas.' Is it burnout? Ambivalence? Exasperation?'Whatever the cause,…...
Israeli nonprofits scale up care for a growing wave of wounded soldiers
21+ hour, 24+ min ago (1445+ words) By 2028, Israel's Defense Ministry projects that some 100,000 patients will be treated through their rehabilitation department. Nonprofits like Belev Echad are supplementing that care Participants in Belev Echad's trip to Miami sail on a boat off the Florida city coast in…...
Reform Zionism is still alive
2+ day, 44+ min ago (500+ words) A recent survey and renewed interest in Birthright for Reform Jews suggest that even liberal Jews still support and long for connection with Israel, despite narratives to the contrary. Israel gets a bad rap among Reform Jews. And Reform Jews…...
Your Daily Phil: Northern exposure: New Hezbollah attacks derail recovery efforts
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (514+ words) National Review'and the Republican Jewish Coalition'are co-sponsoring a daylong symposium on antisemitism in Washington. Speakers include White House antisemitism envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the Justice Department's Leo Terrell, Brandeis Center founder Ken Marcus, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and a…...
Fresh Hezbollah attacks send northern Israel recovery not back to zero but into 'minus,' mayor says
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (604+ words) A mother and child enter a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Yiftah near the Israeli border with Lebanon on March 9, 2026. With news coverage from Israel on the war against Iran focusing primarily on the Iranian missile attacks against Israel and other…...
With Israelis displaced and stuck in bomb shelters, 'Social Delivery' brings aid where it's needed
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (592+ words) The small logistics nonprofit serves as a bridge between those who have things they don't need and those who need things they don't have Residents of Kibbutz Eilon in northern Israel receive a shipment of goods from 'Social Delivery' in…...
Why embracing Jewish Peoplehood is a matter of urgency
3+ day, 1+ hour 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…...