AJWS Blog
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.
Righteous Leadership in Times of Crisis
Just Thought is a series of essays from AJWS applying Jewish wisdom to the pursuit of tikkun olam today. Drawing upon Jewish history, Torah sources and the latest headlines, we plumb pressing questions about human rights and global justice from a Jewish perspective through monthly essays by noted scholars, activists and AJWS staff. We like to …
Adolescent Sexual Violence: A Silent, Global Epidemic That Needs Our Attention
We are at a critical moment for changing how the world responds to sexual violence. It is imperative that the voices of adolescent girls and boys be a part of this moment.
Honoring Land Rights Advocates in Kenya with a New Earth Day Video
On the coast of Kenya, salt companies have forcefully and illegally evicted rural communities from land that indigenous people have lived on and farmed for generations.
My Grandmother’s Courage during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Today is especially poignant for me, as the granddaughter of Edna Brill. April 19th marks the day my grandmother joined with thousands of other Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 to resist the Nazis’ plan to transport the remaining Jews in the ghetto to Treblinka for their extermination. This was the largest act of …