As the Jewish world brings in the secular new year, it will be accompanied by many common threads, perhaps most significantly mounting concerns about Jewish security in the wake of last week’s deadly terror attack. https://t.co/KlepFE4HO0

OPINION | "This war has changed not only what we’ve lost, but who we are as a grieving people. And it’s made one thing unmistakably clear: grief doesn’t only belong to those with formal titles in an obituary." By Marc Belzberg https://t.co/rIGxFQKKuX

OPINION | "What I wish to share here are the practices and culture we developed and employed and the things we learned along the way in the 20 years since the founding of The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life." by Robert Lichtman https://t.co/r9rJnI2t0U

Almost immediately after the attack on Soroka Medical Center’s Northern Surgical Building, the Koum Family Foundation committed $50 million and convened a meeting with other leading Jewish philanthropies. And then Sylvan Adams pledged $100 million. https://t.co/C6tJdvQih8

OPINION | "Next year, 2026, could be Israel’s rebound year... The best way is by thinking big, deploying their resources, wisdom, ingenuity, love and Zionist vision to make post-war Israel even better than ever." By @GilTroy https://t.co/IhUHeL2pXj

Friends and nonprofit leaders describe H. Glenn Rosenkrantz as a man who was brought to tears at every Broadway show he saw and channelled that same empathy and emotion into his work. https://t.co/NCi58Ol3Ok

Your Daily Phil: Wrapping up a rocky 2025 for world Jewry • Inside Soroka hospital’s push to raise $475M after an Iranian missile struck its main buildings • H. Glenn Rosenkrantz, top Jewish communications professional, dies at 64 https://t.co/o5fYQAanS6

OPINION | "In that moment, I understood that interfaith work is not simply about building alliances. It is about moral imagination — the willingness to let someone else’s sacred narrative illuminate your own." By Rabbi Jay Stein https://t.co/LYtbpegls1

With the cost of living rising ever higher in America, so too is the price of summer camp. Despite this, a record number of children attended camp this year, according to a new census released by the Foundation for Jewish Camp. https://t.co/FTjscmDLio

OPINION | "Is internal Jewish conflict always catastrophic, or is it sometimes necessary? Do we learn from Genesis and the Second Temple to avoid it at all costs, or from Hanukkah that some conflicts must be fought?" By @mijalbitton https://t.co/aUAV3svJ7j

Your Daily Phil: AJC’s Ted Deutch calls for communal unity in wake of Bondi Beach attack • Camps set record attendance last summer, Foundation for Jewish Camp census finds • Why I refuse to choose between Jewish Peoplehood and Jewish red lines https://t.co/jaAYHaT6sn

Following the shooting at a Sydney Hanukkah event, @AJCCEO Ted Deutch said it’s critical for Jewish communal organizations to join together around a campaign to protect the Jewish community worldwide and win over allies in that fight. @marcrod97 reports: https://t.co/pOWnKvrHNG

OPINION | "This is not about doing less. It is about doing more with the talent we have. The future of Jewish communal life depends not only on how many professionals we recruit, but on how wisely we deploy them." By Doron Kenter https://t.co/fUfDOtuGYM

OPINION | "This moment demands that we stand together, reject hatred in all its forms and ensure that fear does not become the new normal." By Rabbi Simcha Scholar, CEO of @Chai_Lifeline https://t.co/LCEiR8Gjqj

The USCJ, Rabbinical Assembly and Cantors Assembly released their Joint Intermarriage Working Group Report, with an apology for the hurt the movement caused due to its previous view that interfaith marriage was a threat to Jewish survival. https://t.co/PZ6WubUdYP

OPINION | "On this Hanukkah, let us place our menorahs in our window and remind ourselves that the message we want to be sending to the public is not just one about darkness, but one about light." By Rabbi Ariana Capptauber https://t.co/47aG4Cqkw9

“In the hours after the Bondi Beach attack, our crisis professionals responded to hundreds of calls from witnesses, terrified parents, educators and families worldwide,” writes Rabbi Simcha Scholar, CEO of Chai Lifeline, in an opinion piece for eJewishPhilanthropy.

Your Daily Phil: Conservative movement apologizes to interfaith couples • Freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov to address Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest • Placing the light in the window • After the gunshots fade, hate keeps taking its toll https://t.co/hkxegc26E4

OPINION | "Would Hanukkah feel complete if you skipped lighting candles for days five and six? This is how it feels to Jewish adults over 50 who feel “unlit” by the Jewish community’s institutions." By Rabbi Evan J. Krame https://t.co/Qbty3AQpCA

After expanding to Los Angeles this year, the Bay Area-based Jewish early childhood education nonprofit EarlyJ is deepening its efforts in the community with $1 million in grants to local preschools and daycare centers, the organization announced. https://t.co/VTKeuQ1ST5