Mayberg Foundation Director of Israel Strategy Hanan Rubin and Program Officer, Israel Zohar Hahn-Brafman recently traveled to Israel's north with Rising Trustee Yacova Mayberg Margolis to meet the residents, retirees, and bereaved mothers rebuilding their communities from within. They share what the Israel team saw and what the Israel Committee is still learning.

“I arrived with a soul that felt lost, lonely, and disconnected. I left feeling as though my neshama had been recharged,” says Natalie Nakan of Johannesburg, one of hundreds of Jewish women who gathered in Israel to close Momentum’s October Journey of Growth. Momentum Board Member Andrea Shlipak Mail, who also chairs the Global Partnership Advisory Panel, shares more about the women who took part and what they are carrying home to their families and communities.

Two young women marked their B’not Mitzvah by raising funds to build a childcare center in Mgoji, Malawi. Working with the community, Mayberg Foundation partner Yamba Malawi brought the center to life, and it will now serve more than 200 children each year.

A new fellowship is giving 24 accomplished women educators from the US and Israel a full year of serious, structured learning in Pnimiyut HaTorah, the inner dimension of the Torah. The SHARE Fellowship in Pnimiyut HaTorah, jointly supported by SHARE and the Mayberg Foundation, launched on October 18 under the educational direction of Rebbetzin Yehudis Golshevsky, founder of Shiviti, who has taught Torah to women in Jerusalem and around the world for three decades. Learning together as a chaburah, the fellows are building the depth and skills to bring teachings rarely heard in most schools and communities to the students they already serve.

At the first Maalot Collab InGathering this October, 22 practitioners from Aish, Olami, NCSY and M54, along with their local and regional affiliates and other independent Jewish outreach organizations, came together to describe their work from the inside. Through shared metaphors, small-group conversations and a practitioner panel, people who usually see outreach from inside one organization began to see themselves as part of one field. Project manager Stephen Markowitz shares what they learned and where the Collab is heading next.