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.

Mayberg Foundation President and Trustee Manette Mayberg and Senior Advisor for Education Grants and Programs Rachel Abrahams joined more than 300 educators from Israel and around the world in Jerusalem for the Global Jewish Educators Summit, which opened with the first Global Jewish Teachers Award. Read their reflections on the honorees, a conversation among Jewish education funders, and the experience of seeing Jerusalem bring together a global community of Jewish educators.

On October 7, Rising Trustees Yacova Mayberg Margolis and Chai Margolis joined Program Officer, Israel Zohar Hahn-Brafman for Leket Live, a field tour that followed rescued food from pickup all the way to the plate of student’s in need. Along the way, they rolled up their sleeves and helped prepare frozen emergency meals that Leket keeps ready for times of crisis in Israel.

Mayberg Foundation Managing Director of Operations Rob Levine reflects on Kerem’s inaugural Rising in Philanthropy retreat, where early-career professionals in Jewish philanthropy explored power, risk, and respect for grantees. His biggest takeaway: clarity is kavod.