AJWS is pleased to announce that its board chair, Barbara Dobkin, will receive one of the highest honors in philanthropy, the LEAD award, this weekend from two of the world’s leading philanthropy organizations, the Women’s Funding Network and the Council on Foundations.
Read MoreAJWS and Equal Exchange, a Fair Trade product supplier and worker-owned cooperative, have formed a new partnership, called Better Beans, to sell and distribute fairly traded, kosher coffee and chocolate.
Read MoreAJWS estimates that 5,000 people will participate in a “Global Hunger Shabbat” on March 19-20.
Read MoreService (AJWS) is proud to announce that two of its grantees, Ann Njogu and Sonia Pierre, will receive the “International Women of Courage Award” – an award given by the U.S. Department of State for outstanding women leaders around the world who have demonstrated courage in their struggles for social justice and human rights.
Read MoreFaith Leaders Host Prayer Breakfast, Deliver Humpty Dumpty Books to Congress and Run Print Ad Urging Congress to Act Washington, DC; March 2, 2010— Representatives from faith communities nationwide appealed to Congress today to re-focus its attention to Sudan. The leaders are members of the Interfaith Sudan Working Group, a coalition of Jewish, Muslim and …
Read MoreAJWS has invited Jewish communities and individuals nationwide to observe a “Global Hunger Shabbat”—a day of solidarity, education, reflection and advocacy to raise awareness about global hunger on March 19-20, 2010.
Read MoreIn advance of today’s hearing held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning Haiti’s reconstruction, AJWS president Ruth Messinger expressed her concern that Haitian voices be heard as plans for rebuilding begin.
Read MoreNew York, NY; January 12, 2010—AJWS is collecting donations in response to this afternoon’s massive earthquake in Haiti, which registered a 7.0 on the Richter scale. Donations to AJWS’s “Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund,” which can be made at www.ajws.org/haitiearthquake, will enable AJWS’s network of grantees in Haiti to meet the urgent needs of the population …
Read MoreNew York, NY; January 8, 2010—In response to egregious human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Uganda, AJWS has established the URGENT LGBT UGANDA FUND. The fund will support Ugandan grassroots organizations working to defend the rights of sexual minorities and to defeat a dangerous piece of proposed legislation—”The Anti-Homosexuality …
Read MoreMore than 50 Rabbinic Leaders Gather to Deepen Commitment to Human Rights New York, NY; December 24, 2009 — More than 50 rabbis and rabbinical students, all of whom have traveled to the developing world with AJWS, concluded a three-day leadership training institute yesterday at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center in Reisterstown, Maryland. The …
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