The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
This month, in the Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi began India’s independence movement, AJWS’s World Partners Fellows begin their own journey of study and service in India. In a setting of simple living, fellows explore the mutual roots of Jewish belief and concepts of justice, human rights and service. Using AJWS’s curriculum, Live the Questions, fellows …
Following on the heels of the Akeidah, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, Parshat Chayei Sarah (“Sarah’s Life”), opens by immediately announcing her death. Although a connection to the previous narrative is not explicit, many commentators link Sarah’s sudden passing to the Akeidah, imagining that the emotional shock of hearing the news literally kills her. Rashi expands …
President of Liberia and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was just re-elected for a second term of office. But her victory, described as “a boon for women,” was fraught with controversy. Sirleaf’s opponent, Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party, boycotted the election run-off, citing alleged irregularities and systematic …
AJWS has been saying for a while that shipping surplus U.S. food thousands of miles to developing countries is about as useless in ending global hunger as, well, sending them our old T-shirts. According to this article in Foreign Policy Magazine, here’s a great acronym for the leftovers people send to the poor under the …
We’re still flying high from the extraordinary success of Global Hunger Shabbat this past weekend. Over 250 communities and 10,000 people across the United States—from California to Kansas—and around the world in Israel, India and Nigeria (!) learned, reflected, and charged their activist batteries to make food justice a reality for everyone. Arielle Golden of …
