AJWS Grantee Wins $100,000 Grinnell Young innovator for Social Justice Prize New York; May 15, 2011—James Kofi Annan, founder and executive director of AJWS grantee Challenging Heights, knows the impact of a lost childhood. And, as an adult, he has dedicated his life to protecting kids in his native Ghana from the same types of …
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New York, NY; May 6, 2011—American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is proud to announce that its board chair, Barbara Dobkin, has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). Founded in 1875, HUC-JIR is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual …
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Ruth Messinger Will Fast with Broad Coalition of Faith and Human Rights Leaders New York, NY; March 28, 2011—Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, is fasting this week to protest cuts to the U.S.’s humanitarian aid budget being voted on in Congress. The week-long fast, …
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AJWS has won YouTube’s and See3 Communications’ “DoGooder Nonprofit Video Award” for its Judd Apatow directed public service announcement (PSA).
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New York, NY; March 18, 2011—American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, is accepting applications for its Presidential Fellowship. The 12-month, highly-competitive fellowship offers a recent college graduate the unique opportunity to accompany AJWS president Ruth Messinger on her professional travel, including speaking engagements in Jewish communities throughout North America …
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After working for over twenty years on a variety of social justice issues in the secular “non-Jewish world,” I was privileged to meet a number of inspirational Jewish leaders who offered me a path to connect this work more directly to my Jewish identity. So has working for almost two years in the so-called “Jewish world” in a specifically Jewish organization influenced my identity? Also, have I observed significant differences between these two sectors?
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Washington, D.C; March 1, 2011—American Jewish World Service (AJWS)—in partnership with Women Thrive Worldwide and Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN)—will mark International Women’s Day, on March 8 at 8:30 a.m. with a breakfast and panel discussion that will focus on women’s empowerment and the creation of a more effective international development and foreign assistance program. …
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Inter-denominational Jewish Communal Leaders Will Gather to Share Ideas and Deepen Commitment to Human Rights New York, NY; February 10, 2011—More than 40 rabbis and rabbinical students, from across the denominational spectrum, will participate in a global justice leadership retreat in Reisterstown, Maryland from February 20 to 23. In its second year, the conference, called …
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New York, NY; January 28, 2011— American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, has issued a call for members of the Jewish community to stand in solidarity with Uganda’s LGBTI community in the wake of Ugandan LGBTI activist David Kato’s murder in Kampala earlier this week. The pledge, which can …
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In his speech entitled, “The Modern Development Enterprise,” delivered at an event hosted by the Center for Global Development, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah praised AJWS’s international development work.
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