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AJWS Grantee in The New York Times
Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, co-founder of Sustainable Development Institute, tells The New York Times why rights to land, water and forests are an essential piece of the global human rights agenda. Read more »
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Calling College Graduate and Young Professionals
Travel to India for 11 months on a fully funded program! World Partners Fellowship applications are being accepted until January 30, 2012. Learn more »
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Sonia Pierre, 1963 - 2011
Always dreaming of a different Haiti, and a better life for Dominicans of Haitian descent, she fought tirelessly to make the dream real. Read more »
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Food Justice Conference Call!
If you missed our recent activist call about what’s next with the Farm Bill and AJWS’s Reverse Hunger campaign, the recording of the call is now available.
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East African Famine Relief
East Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years, resulting in a severe food crisis and famine. Read more »
Passover doesn’t arrive until April, but Parshat Bo already has us thinking about it. In detailing the first Chag haMatzot,[1] the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the parshah establishes perhaps the most fundamental dichotomy of Passover: chametz vs. matzah.
We generally assume chametz and matzah to be opposites, given their oppositional treatment in the text.[2] After all, matzah was the bread baked by our ancestors in their hurried attempt to leave the oppression of Egypt. Matzah reminds us of our last moments of servitude and our narrow,... Read more »
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