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October 16, 2009

Ruth Messinger Delivers World Food Day Message: Challenge Unfair Trade Policies, Reform Foreign Assistance and Support Local Farming

AJWS president Ruth W. Messinger has issued a statement in response to this week’s report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which concluded that hunger now affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. On World Food Day, Messinger is calling on Americans to challenge international trade policies that favor corporations at the expense of the world’s poorest people.

October 2, 2009

Ruth Messinger Joins Other Faith-Based Leaders at White House Meeting on Sudan

Representatives from faith communities nationwide met with Reverend Joshua DuBois, Director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, today, to discuss the ongoing violence in Sudan.

September 21, 2009

AJWS Asks Supporters to Fight Global Hunger With Money Saved from Yom Kippur Fast

As part of its recently launched campaign, Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up, AJWS has issued an appeal asking supporters to donate the money they would have spent on food, were they not fasting on Yom Kippur, to AJWS-supported communities building local farming capacity in the developing world.

August 25, 2009

Longtime AJWS Grantee A Focus In Highly Anticipated Book By The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof And Author Sheryl WuDunn

AJWS is proud to congratulate its grantee Tostan, which is the focus of a chapter in acclaimed journalist Nicholas Kristof’s and author Sheryl WuDunn’s upcoming book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

August 24, 2009

AJWS Publishes High Holiday Resource Pack on Global Hunger

As part of a national hunger awareness campaign to be formally launched this September, AJWS has published a new resource pack, “Sealed for a year of plenty: Challenging the destiny of hunger,” for rabbis and other Jewish educators wishing to use the High Holidays as an opportunity to address global hunger.

August 18, 2009

AJWS Announces $3.2 Million in New Grants

AJWS has recently awarded more than $3.2 million to 151 grassroots project partners in 28 countries. The new grants are divided into five categories, which include sustainable livelihoods and development, community health, community voice, education for all, and community engagement in conflict and emergencies. They provide funding to organizations in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

July 21, 2009

AJWS Hires Laura Talmus, Experienced Development Professional And Advocate For Social Justice Issues, To Lead Western Region

AJWS is pleased to announce that Laura Talmus has joined its senior staff as the organization’s western regional executive director. In this role, Talmus will be responsible for overseeing all operations in the western United States, including increasing AJWS’s base of donors and grassroots activists.

July 20, 2009

AJWS President, Ruth Messinger, Serving On Obama Poverty Task Force

AJWS president Ruth W. Messinger has been appointed to serve on the Obama administration’s Task Force on Global Poverty and Development. The task force was created by the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which is working to identify areas in which improved, expanded and innovative partnerships between government and faith-based community organizations will yield results in serving individuals, families and communities.

July 14, 2009

AJWS Cheers Cancellation of Haiti’s Debt

AJWS has applauded the recent decision by the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to cancel the $1.2 billion in debt owed to these institutions by the Government of Haiti.

July 6, 2009

AJWS Elects New Board Chair

AJWS has announced that Barbara Dobkin will serve as its new board chair, the organization’s principal lay leadership position.