Originally posted on Outside the Bubble, a blog written by Jamie Lippman, former AJWS World Partners Fellow in India. I got into a debate with a coworker. He was of the perspective that if you’re not a member of a community, then you’re out of place to be helping that community. In other words, communities …
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This AJWS series on storytelling and justice is guest edited by Deji Olukotun. Judaism relishes a good story. The Torah, Judaism’s anchor text, bubbles over with stories—stories of love, stories of betrayal, stories of conquest, stories of loss. Writing centuries later, the rabbis continued to use stories as a powerful medium through which to teach …
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For many of us, the situation in Sudan feels hopeless. In Sudan’s western region of Darfur, a genocide has continued for eight years, claiming the lives of more than 450,000 people and displacing millions of others. Meanwhile, decades of civil war between the North and South had finally ended in 2005, only to suffer repeated …
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Indigenous People in Honduras are all too familiar with injustice. In the face of an oppressive government, they’re experiencing an uphill battle to secure access to land and resources. A few weeks ago, from May 16-27, representatives from Indigenous People’s organizations, including several AJWS grantees from Latin America, convened at the 10th Permanent Forum on …
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This is the first of a series of blog posts that will explore some of the amazing stories AJWS tells across its departments and with its grantees around the world. The hope is to stimulate a conversation that will help us tell better stories to advance social justice. Nonprofits have shown a growing interest in …
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For years I kept a Jewish calendar on my wall. It was my weekly guide to Shabbat times and my monthly reference for Jewish holidays. Now I have a Jewish calendar app on my phone and refer to Chabad.org each Friday to check candle lighting times. The technology has changed, but the fact that much …
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Exciting news! This week AJWS relaunched On1Foot, our innovative online portal for Jewish social justice texts and resources. I caught up with AJWS staffer Sarah Mulhern who manages On1Foot to get a sense of what the new-and-improved On1Foot offers our community. See below!
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It’s pretty upsetting that Sudan has experienced a series of events that could reignite a civil war between the North and South of the country. After an overwhelming vote for succession in January 2011—the last stage in fulfilling the 2005 peace agreement that ended more than 20 years of fighting—South Sudan is just six weeks …
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I signed up for the Global Circle trip to Ghana with some reluctance. Couldn’t I just write a check to AJWS and take a vacation to Hawaii instead? Or if I wanted to do something for people in need, couldn’t I start somewhere a little closer to home? Who would I be helping by spending …
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I am uncomfortable. I am hot, sweaty and tired. I have been continuously carrying 45 lb blocks for about 10 minutes, fairly certain this is the first time I have ever carried cement blocks in my entire life. While I am used to seeing huge cement mixers on the side of the highway, here I …
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