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Plans to create another org to take on Israel's adversaries
Charles Jacobs, who founded The David Project in 2002, will step down from his role as president at the end of the month to embark on another venture.
The leadership of the organization will then pass into the capable hands of its executive director, Anna Kolodner, who has served in the position for the past 18 months. Kolodner joined The David Project as education director in 2004.
Jacobs, who holds a doctoral degree from Harvard and describes himself as a "social-political activist," has helped create organizations in the Jewish community and beyond. In 1994, he founded the ,American Anti-Slavery Group and was also instrumental in helping Andrea Levin open the Boston office of CAMERA. Jacobs said he decided to leave The David Project at a point where it was a "self-sustaining, internationally known educational institution."
"I have spent my career launching initiatives where I thought, there was a glaring need," he said. "I founded The David Project in response to the new anti-Semitism in which Jews are hated not for their religion or race, but for their state. Our challenge was to teach Jews who were divided politically to make...