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OU splits top leadership role, naming Rabbi Shmuel Silber EVP and Rabbi Josh Joseph CEO

The announcement comes 10 months after OU leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer’s sudden death

Your rabbi’s voice on the phone is not always your rabbi

The call sounds exactly right. The rabbi's voice, the cadence, the little verbal habits everyone knows from Shabbat drashot. There is an emergen…

Your Daily Phil: Remembering Shmuel Harlap, a quiet giant of Israeli philanthropy

Good Tuesday morning! In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we interview Ilana Kaufman about her 15-city listening tour for the Jews of Color I…

Shmuel Harlap, who gave Israel’s largest healthcare gift but kept his name off it, dies at 82

Some philanthropists live for buildings with their names on them. Shmuel Harlap preferred bylines. The Israeli auto magnate, technology investor…

Jews of Color Initiative CEO Ilana Kaufman: ‘This conversation is about all of us’

Kaufman traveled across America on a listening tour to learn about the needs of Jews of color

Meta’s Alex Luxenberg tapped as Sefaria’s next CEO

AI is “an extraordinary opportunity for Sefaria, but the goal shouldn’t be to use AI simply because it is new," Luxenberg told eJP

JFNA cuts PR consultant after blowback for messaging plan recommending terms other than ‘Zionism’

Matthew Berger's contract was cut after a participant of the National Young Leadership retreat leaked a photo of his presentation, despite his a…

Dispatch from a nation on the edge

As the Jewish Funders Network convenes in San Diego, this is the first time in my 25-year career as a foundation professional based in Israel th…

Limmud hires Central and Eastern Europe Regional Coordinator

[caption id="attachment_87137" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Limmud Keshet Bulgaria; eJP archives.[/caption] Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska, a so…

Jewish Community Building in Warsaw of 5778

[caption id="attachment_108567" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Screenshot: kontynent-warszawa.pl[/caption] [This essay is from The Peoplehood…

Even After A Year of Loss, European Jewish Culture Remains Strong

By Liam Hoare eJewish Philanthropy This month, the British Jewish community, and the progressive community in particular, mourned the passing of…

Three Viennese Stories: Past, Present, and Future

[caption id="attachment_99161" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial Vienna; CC photo by Rachel Whitereadwien.[/caption…