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OPINION | "North American Jews need to engage Israel as it actually is... Engaging it honestly — neither uncritically nor uncharitably — is itself a form of Zionist maturity." By Rabbi Steven C. Wernick ejphil.com/42zcn

OPINION | "At some point, the field has to decide whether serious Jewish educational content, the kind that can actually travel across time zones and school walls and into living rooms, is worth building and funding at scale." By Rabbi Dan Roth ejphil.com/42yqi

OPINION | "And focusing only on individual cases misses the larger point: What we are seeing is not an isolated strain, but antisemitism functioning like a cancer within the healthcare ecosystem." By Eveline Shekhman ejphil.com/42y6e

Tomer Malchi, the co-founder and CEO of CultivAid, an Israel-based nonprofit focused on agriculture and water use in eastern and southern Africa, has been named this year’s Charles Bronfman Prize laureate. Read our full conversation with Malchi: ejphil.com/42xkt

Your Daily Phil: CultivAid’s Tomer Malchi wins 2026 Bronfman Prize • Keep healing spaces safe through philanthropic partnerships • The aliyah conversation belongs to all of Am Yisrael ejphil.com/42wxj

The silence wasn't cowardice. They didn't see the column. A response to @GidiGrinstein's question in @eJPhil.

OPINION | "A child has the right for their sadness to be respected, even if it is only about a pebble that has been lost." By Rabbi Daniel Brenner ejphil.com/42mv4

OPINION | "Defending American Jewry’s record .... is not wrong. ... Segal was not really asking whether American Jewry has been useful. He was offloading Israeli anxiety onto a community that could not hear him doing it." By @Amitaifraiman ejphil.com/42mgd

OPINION | "If a young Jew's first real encounter with Zionism comes through those who despise it, then we have already surrendered too much ground." By Michael Gencher ejphil.com/42maj

Australia's Royal Commission on Antisemitism interim report reveals a glaring disparity between safety and perceptions of safety — with far-reaching implications for security services and Jewish communal groups worldwide. @JudahAriGross reports: ejphil.com/42kmr

Community Security Service graduated its 10th class of Advanced Academy volunteer trainers Wednesday — its 150th certified graduate — as the Jewish self-protection organization grows to 27 staff and a $6.2M budget. @jaydeitche reports: ejphil.com/42kde

Your Daily Phil: Australian antisemitism probe highlights gap between safety, feelings of safety • Aish grapples with cash-flow issues amid strengthening shekel, 'economic shifts' • CSS graduates 10th class of Advanced Academy students ejphil.com/42k5k

Aish has laid off several employees and twice delayed salary payments in recent months amid funding shortfalls tied to the strengthening shekel, which dropped the value of its dollar-based fundraising amid rising costs. @JudahAriGross reports: ejphil.com/42jyy

OPINION | "A response from American Jewish leaders to Segal’s assault could have also inspired American Jews about the future of American Jewry, which is now in flux." By Gidi Grinstein ejphil.com/42ibf

A “new era” of philanthropy is taking hold, one where donors are no longer creating large foundations staffed by many employees but instead joining collaboratives, according to the Bridgespan Group. ejphil.com/42i4r

OPINION | "A nation is not a map... A nation is a living thing, constituted of three cores that cannot sensibly be separated from one another." By Sir Mick Davis ejphil.com/42hvg

Susan and Henry Samueli announced a $50 million grant on Thursday to the Samueli Integrative Cancer Pioneering Institute at Clalit’s Beilinson Medical Center in central Israel. ejphil.com/42hm5

OPINION | "Where is the institutional home for those in the non-Orthodox world who want not only to ground their lives but to learn week in and week out in the paradigmatic Jewish spiritual practice of talmud Torah?" By Rabbi Benjamin Barer ejphil.com/42hfm

Surrounded by walls plastered with ideas, Elluminate convened Jewish women leaders from nonprofits, philanthropy and social advocacy in New York City to kick off its Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network. ejphil.com/42h85

Your Daily Phil: With $50M gift, Samuelis double down on Israeli cancer research • Elluminate marks 30 years, launches Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network • Samuelis double down on Israeli cancer treatment with $50M to Beilinson Hospital ejphil.com/42gg4