Promisers to date: The Jewish Future Promise reached 91,417 Signers, and the Jewish Youth Promise now has 27,865 Youth Signers.

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The Next 25 Years – A Vision for the Jewish People’s Future – The Times of Israel

Imagining tuition-free Jewish day schools – eJewish Philanthropy

How-To: Bring Our Hostages Home

In January 2025, 15 months after Hamas waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, the first stage of a hostage deal was signed, in exchange for a temporary pause in fighting.

The difficulty in signing the most recent, long-awaited agreement shows how tenuous the course of granting freedom to the hostages may be. Hamas cannot be allowed to renege on this deal.

At this moment, we still need unrelenting pressure on Hamas to abide by the deal and release the hostages.

Click here to join the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, in urging your elected officials to sustain pressure on Hamas, and to ensure that every hostage held in Gaza, regardless of age, gender, or nationality, is ultimately freed.

Promiser Spotlight: Raphael Shore

Rabbi Raphael Shore is a rabbi, educator and award-winning film producer, passionate about the power of film to educate and inspire. 

Why did you sign the Jewish Future Promise? 

It is my deep belief that the Jewish people have a very important role to play in this world. We’ve already accomplished a tremendous amount as a people, but our job is not finished. The world has a way to go, and therefore the Jewish people have some important work to do. 

What’s one way we can better engage younger generations of Jews?

It is critical to address, but antisemitism is not very inspiring to the next generation. We don’t spend enough time on our positive story; our raison d'être, our purpose of being. People want to be inspired by positive stories. 

My main strategy is education. We need to teach our Jewish community who we are as Jews. I started OpenDor Media for this very reason – to ensure Judaism’s beauty is not lost among the challenges our people face. My recent book – Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jew? – threads this needle by educating about antisemitism while also explaining why the Jewish people and our work is inspirational and meaningful. 

Authentic Judaism is magnetic and relevant. When you go beyond the social and add an educational component to give people a deeper understanding of Judaism, then it gets super powerful for not just youth but everyone. 

How do we combat antisemitic hate in 2025?

I prefer to look at antisemitism as a disease, and we are doctors. Doctors do everything to get to the root of the source – only when we understand where it’s coming from at the deepest source can we address and solve it. Like doctors, we must create a diagnosis. 

And if we can’t solve it, let’s at least have the strength to survive it. In the words of the late Professor Robert Wistrich, we must develop our “spiritual inner armor” and maintain a moral self-confidence of who we are as Jews to withstand social pressures. 

Antisemitism’s worst damage is not the punches thrown, but that the Jewish people lose our moral self-confidence because we think something is wrong with us.

Read Rabbi Shore’s full promiser spotlight article here.