What I Love About AJWS
We asked our supporters what they love about the AJWS community and our work to build a better world. Here’s what they shared!
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AJWS Staff
AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
I think we are all ready for 2018. This year, we have witnessed storms that battered parts of the U.S. and the Caribbean, earthquakes in Mexico, famine in East Africa, and the horrific mass murder of the Rohingya taking place in Burma.
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We Are AJWS: A Time for Hope and Action
In a time of escalating fear, brokenness and despair, supporters of AJWS aren’t losing hope. Learn how we’re harnessing optimism to build a better world together.
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Building a Better World for Future Generations on Universal Children’s Day
Millions of children around the world are suffering from violence, hunger and discrimination—from Rohingya children living in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh, to girls in Uganda who are recovering from sexual abuse in the aftermath of Uganda’s civil war. Fortunately, AJWS’s grantees are restoring hope, dignity and human rights for children who face injustice all over the world.
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Books Beyond Borders: AJWS Marin Global Justice Book and Film Club
AJWS is partnering with the Osher Marin JCC to launch a special edition of our Books Beyond Borders club in Marin! Four times a year, we will feature a book and film pairing that connects to AJWS’s mission to promote human rights and end poverty in the developing world.
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
Earlier this year I had the privilege to speak at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival as part of a panel following a documentary called Little Stones, which follows the lives of four women using art to empower other women and girls in the developing world.
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AJWS Los Angeles: What’s Happening
At a time when voices of intolerance and bigotry are growing louder, I am grateful that the AJWS community has never wavered in its commitment to building a more just and equitable world.
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Reflections from Guatemala
I am parachuting into the brutal realities of a population whose daily struggles I couldn’t even imagine a few days ago.
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Video: Jewish Voices for LGBT Rights
In honor of LGBT Pride Month, watch our newest video in which members of the AJWS community share what motivates them, as Jews, to fight for the rights and dignity of LGBT people everywhere.
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Landmark Ruling Offers Hope to Kenya’s Indigenous Ogiek
Members of the indigenous Ogiek community, who made the hours-long journey from their home in Kenya’s Rift Valley to a packed courtroom in Arusha, Tanzania, erupted into cheer when judges decided a longstanding case in favor of this beleaguered community that has endured evictions from their ancestral lands. On May 26, the African Court of …
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