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AJW Services Fights for Human Rights
Rabbi Elie spitz of Congregation B’nai Israel in Tustin, was selected by the American Jewish World Service as one of fourteen rabbis and cantors from across the United States as the 2017 class of Global Justice Fellows. This program educates and trains American Jewish leaders to advocate effectively as Jews in support of international polices …
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Stories of Hope: Haiti’s Road to Recovery Six Months after Hurricane Matthew
Coastal homes reduced to rubble, acres of land covered with toppled trees, walls bearing high water marks left behind by floods—these are common sights across Haiti’s devastated southern peninsula in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which struck six months ago today. The storm made landfall during the early hours of October 4, 2016. Powerful …
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Trump budget turns safety net into gossamer
If a budget is a moral document, then the budget President Trump submitted to Congress last week is a testament to immorality of the highest order. The Jewish community’s response has been broadly critical. The American Jewish Committee, American Jewish World Service, B’nai B’rith International and the Religious Action Center are a few of the …
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Global Solidarity in the Age of Trump
“We’re worried about you,” they said. I was traveling with 14 rabbis and a cantor as part of AJWS’s Global Justice Fellowship to the Dominican Republic. In a country that is home to the largest stateless population in the Western Hemisphere, we were shocked to discover that the activists and organizers we met were concerned about us.
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AJWS Releases 2nd edition of Global Justice Haggadah
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) has published the second edition of the AJWS Global Justice Haggadah, “Next Year in a Just World.” The AJWS Haggadah connects the traditional story of Passover – moving from slavery to freedom – to the responsibility of contemporary Jews to pursue justice around the world today Drawing from AJWS’s international …
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What I Learned From the Dominican Republic’s ‘Ghost Citizens’
In January I traveled with 14 rabbis and a cantor as part of American Jewish World Service’s Global Justice Fellowship to the Dominican Republic—a country that is home to the largest stateless population in the Western Hemisphere. We learned how Dominican court had stripped citizenship from some 200,000 people—Dominican-born children and grandchildren of immigrants from …
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Leading International Jewish Organization Decries President Trump’s Proposal to Slash Budgets for U.S. State Department and U.S. Foreign Aid
Citing Jewish values and its experience in providing direct aid worldwide, AJWS objects to Trump’s radical budget cuts.
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Religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid
Religious leaders, including some who spoke at President Trump’s inauguration, are calling on Congress to protect foreign aid that helps the needy across the globe. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal calls for $25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. That’s a decrease of $10.1 billion, or 28 percent, from …
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Next Year in A Just World: American Jewish World Service Announces Second Edition of Its Global Justice Haggadah
At a time of global turmoil, when the voices of intolerance in the U.S. and around the world are growing louder, American Jewish World Service (AJWS) today published the second edition of the AJWS Global Justice Haggadah, Next Year in a Just World. The AJWS Haggadah connects the traditional story of Passover—moving from slavery to freedom—to the responsibility of contemporary Jews to pursue justice around the world today.
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