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AJWS Accepting Applications from Jewish Young Adults for 18th Volunteer Summer Program

AJWS is accepting applications from Jewish young adults throughout the U.S. for its 18th Volunteer Summer program. The year-long service-learning program brings participants, between the ages of 16 and 24, to developing countries where they live and work alongside grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for seven weeks to learn about international development principles and the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam.

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American Jewish World Service Formally Joins Sudan NOW

New York, NY; December 10, 2010—American Jewish World Service (AJWS), a human rights and international development organization, announced today that it has formally joined Sudan NOW, a campaign led by a group of prominent anti-genocide and human rights advocacy organizations committed to bringing meaningful and lasting peace to Sudan and encouraging strong American leadership and …

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AJWS Selects Rabbinical Students for Prestigious Speaking Fellowship

New York, NY; November 23, 2010— American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, has selected four outstanding rabbinical students for its annual “Kol Tzedek: Voices of Justice” speaking fellowship. David Fainsilber, Adam Greenwald, Leah Greenwald Jordan and Aaron Lerner are all alumni of AJWS’s Rabbinical Delegation program, which sends two …

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Debut CD benefits AJWS!

AJWS thanks singer Julienne Dweck who is donating the proceeds from the sale of the first 1000 hard copies of her debut album, On Paper, to support the work of the organization. In Julienne’s own words: It feels great to be able to use my music for something positive like this, and I am always …

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AJWS Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

In response to the deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, AJWS is providing its grantee Movimiento Social-Cultural de los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA), with emergency funding to launch an educational campaign around cholera prevention.

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AJWS Selects Jewish Community Engagement Fellow

Brandeis Grad, Shulie Eisen, Named First “AJWS Presidential Fellow” New York, NY; October 4, 2010— American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, has named Shulie Eisen its first Presidential Fellow. Eisen was selected from a pool of nearly 100 highly-accomplished recent college graduates from across the U.S. for the 12-month …

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