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Gary Rosenblatt

Aug 12, 2026, 9:26 PM

If You Plan It, It Is No Dream

As Jewish communal professionals turn Jack Ukeles's visions and methods into reality, his legacy lives on. Throughout a storied career of more than five decades that included key roles in teaching courses at elite universities, creating policy planning for city...

Aug 12, 2026, 8:23 PM

Four Languages, One Bunk and the Power of Jewish Experiences

As philanthropists, grant-makers, and communal leaders, we are deeply trained in the language of logic. We live by quarterly reports, analyze financial statements, assess key performance indicators (KPIs), and evaluate organizational capacity. We look at our funding through a...

Stephen A. Cooper

Aug 11, 2026, 11:37 PM

Life without parole is the cure for America’s death penalty disease

Three executions are scheduled in America on August 13. The states set to kill men that day are Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama. The terrible crimes the men committed were reprehensible, and this writing is not meant to diminish, minimize,...

Michael Bresler

Aug 9, 2026, 5:39 PM

It was never really just about the baseball

Last week, we went to Toronto to watch our son play baseball. He was part of Baltimore’s 17U team competing at the JCC Maccabi Games. This wasn’t our first Maccabi experience. We’ve done this before. We knew the excitement, the competition,...

Aug 7, 2026, 8:47 AM

Safeguarding Vagahau Niue: Exercising Linguistic Sovereignty in the Age of AI

The issue is not merely whether artificial intelligence produces inaccurate language. It is who holds the authority and expertise to verify, correct and shape the digital representation of Vagahau Niue, the Niuean language. A phrasebook may appear modest. Yet when...

Daniel R. Weiss

Aug 6, 2026, 9:27 AM

All In: How Jewish Day Schools Create a Sense of Belonging

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How do Jewish Day Schools create a sense of belonging? At Bornblum, we don’t sort our students into tribes or houses (like Harry Potter). Instead, we sort them into families. We call them Mishpachot, and each one carries a...

Michael Bresler

Aug 2, 2026, 4:52 AM

The Resource Every Jewish Organization Is Running Out Of

Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of spending time with leaders from Jewish day schools, synagogues, foundations, nonprofits, and businesses. On the surface, they couldn’t be more different. They serve different communities, face different challenges, and measure...

Jul 31, 2026, 6:01 AM

Greatness and Humility (Eikev, Covenant & Conversation)

A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one that has found a place in the Siddur. It is among the readings we say after the Evening Service on Saturday night...

Daniel R. Weiss

Jul 30, 2026, 8:32 AM

Leading Schools From the Balcony

A member of the faculty who taught me a new understanding of adaptive leadership at a conference last year reached out recently with a question that sounds simple and isn't: How are you actually using it? It's a fair question...

Jul 29, 2026, 9:56 PM

How to manage a remote team in a war zone

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The sirens go off in the middle of a demo with a US prospect, right mid-sentence. Another round of sighs, gasps, and oh-ohs from that side of the screen – but for us it’s already routine. We paused, gave a...

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