This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post on October 7, 2016.
By David Eisner
In the weeks before Rosh Hashanah, I participated in several gatherings of people whose lives are devoted to service and social change, and, especially, to engaging more individuals and communities to care about these things. These gatherings included 125 organizations participating in Service Matters: A Summit on Jewish Service (I’m CEO of Repair the World, which convened the gathering); a retreat of the CEOs of organizational members of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable; a retreat of the Board of Advisors and Board of Directors of Points of Light, the world’s largest organization devoted to volunteering and service; and, a conference marking the 15th Anniversary of the Building Bridges Coalition, convened by that coalition, Service Year Alliance and the Brookings think tank.