President Trump, you may have heard, is soon embarking on the first international trip of his presidency – to Saudi Arabia, Israel, The Vatican, Italy and Brussels. What you may not have heard is that while in Saudi Arabia, there is a possibility that Trump will not only meet with King Salman, who is currently allegedly …
Read MoreIn Guatemala we witness one of the most atrocious massacres in the history of the country and of Our America. They were under the protection and protection of the State. At least sixty girls tried to flee March 7 from the Safe Home “Virgin of the Assumption”, it was a hell they were living. There …
Read MoreMore than 200,000 people descended on the nation’s capital to demand action on climate change. Here are just a few of the thousands of reasons why they came, and why we must act now.
Read MoreThree Jewish groups called on President Donald Trump to keep the United States as a signatory in the United Nations Paris climate change agreement. The Union for Reform Judaism, the American Jewish World Service and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life joined 20 other religious groups in urging Trump to adhere to the agreement, …
Read MoreI grew up on the southern tip of South Africa, not far from where the waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. As a child, I spent most of my weekends in my grandparents’ small store, located in a crowded and ethnically diverse marketplace in District Six, a Cape Town neighborhood long ago destroyed.There, …
Read MoreSimone Gbagbo, wife of former Ivorian Head of State Laurent Gbagbo, has been on trial before Ivorian court for the past ten months for crimes against humanity after being sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in 2016 for undermining state security during the 2010-2011 post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. Since February 2012, she has also been …
Read MoreOver a dozen Jewish groups and congregations are participating in Saturday’s People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. The People’s Climate Movement, which is organizing the event, advocates for global action against climate change. The march is scheduled to go from the Capitol to the Washington Monument by way of the White House. Jewish partners of the march …
Read MoreOn this Earth Day, a Shabbat, I am deeply focused on our Jewish obligation to repair the world and safeguard the earth and its inhabitants. As Genesis tells it, it took six days to create the complex majesty of the universe. Today, I fear that we are frighteningly close to undermining this majesty. But we …
Read MoreRuth Messinger has a new job — not so different from her old one, but with a new title and a new focus. After 18 years heading the American Jewish World Service — she served as its president from 1998 until July 2016 — she has passed the baton to Robert Bank, AJWS’s executive vice-president. But …
Read MoreAs Jews in South Jersey and worldwide do without chametz to celebrate Passover, the plight of modern refugees is on the minds of many Passover, after all, is the ultimate refugee holiday. Every year we retell the ancient story of our flight from oppression, reciting the words “Arami Oved Avi,” sometimes translated as “My father …
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