Pack your bags. Grab your passport. There’s no better way to ignite your passion for global justice than by traveling with AJWS to Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Caribbean.
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Meet with extraordinary activists, journalists, academics and elected officials to understand the impact of AJWS’s international work. You’ll experience how people on the frontlines are tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems—poverty, AIDS, violence, rape, and genocide—to transform their own communities.
Experience social change around the world.
AJWS Study Tours are rare opportunities to witness grassroots change up close. Each 7-10 day philanthropic adventure to Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Caribbean is led by AJWS staff and goes beyond the bounds of traditional tourism. Together, we will explore how our dollars can reverse poverty and injustice and empower people to build a more just world.
The AJWS Global Justice Fellowship is a selective program designed to inspire, educate and train American rabbis to become activist leaders in support of global justice. The six-month-long fellowship includes a 7-day educational trip to one of 18 countries AJWS work in and then the opportunity to advocate for policy change in Washington, D.C.
We were transported to these activists’ world of extraordinary bravery and complexity, and we walked away feeling that we had born witness to real change.
I cannot yet tell people about my trips in a way that fully captures the emotional impact they have had on me, and perhaps I never will. But I will continue to find ways to articulate these journeys. Traveling to meet grantees is how I derive inspiration for my leadership at AJWS. Their work inspired me before, but once I saw it with my own eyes, it changed me forever.
After hearing the incredible stories and the journeys of AJWS’s grantees, I feel that it is essential that we advocate for the amplification of their voices and the recognition of their rights.