יום שישי, ח׳ אלול תשפ״וFriday, August 21, 2026
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By Jason Maoz
It was with no apparent sense of irony that Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign autobiography was titled Why Not the Best? That very question would come up with increasing frequency in the years after Carter’s election, only then it was being asked not as a rhetorical device to sell books but by Americans who refused to believe that this ineffectual, uninspiring milquetoast was the best a great nation could do.
When Yom Tov begins on Wednesday night (in Galus), the eruv tavshilin ceremony is performed on Wednesday and when Yom Tov begins on Thursday night it is performed on Thursday, in each case by the head of the household.
The most commonly used vehicles for philanthropy are private foundations, charitable lead trusts, and donor-advised funds (DAFs).
August 21, 2026 
