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AJWS Announces Finalists for Philanthropy Design Competition
AJWS has announced the nine finalists for its design competition focused on philanthropy and social change. Where Do You Give? challenged artists to create a 21st century icon inspired by the values and imagery of the traditional Jewish tzedakah, or charity, box.
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Strengthening the Global Women’s Movement at AWID 2012
Who needs a larger piece of a poisoned pie? If international development comes at the cost of a toxic environment—corporate theft of indigenous peoples’ land, escalating violence against women and sexual minorities—isn’t the price too high? How can we have justice if the end is profit and the means are human beings?
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AJWS’s Kenyan Grantee Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Ikal Angelei of Friends of Lake Turkana Wins Prestigious Award For Natural Resource Rights Activism New York, NY; April 16, 2012—American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, today announced that Ikal Angelei, the founder of Friends of Lake Turkana, has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. AJWS has funded Angelei’s …
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Ikal Angelei, Director of AJWS Grantee in Kenya, Wins the Goldman Prize!
It brings me great pleasure to share that Ikal Angelei, director of AJWS grantee Friends of Lake Turkana in Kenya is one of the winners of the 2012 Goldman Prize! She was awarded this prestigious prize for risking her life fighting the construction of the massive Gibe 3 Dam that would block access to water …
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Congressional Meetings for a Just Farm Bill: Part 2
Farm Bill debates are picking up in Washington, so now is the time to reach out to members of Congress and share our vision for a just Farm Bill. People committed to AJWS’s work in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago have been organizing other AJWS supporters and activists to participate in meetings with …
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Eight Reasons Why the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit Needs to Listen to Youth
The 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit hosted by Cambodia wrapped up last week. The eyes of the region were on Cambodia offering local NGOs a rare opportunity to voice human rights concerns in Cambodia. Given the current trend of silencing dissent and criticism around contentious issues, the Summit represented a valuable entry …
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New Report Shows 17 Million Lives at Stake in Farm Bill Negotiations
Infographic Demonstrates Inefficiencies and Opportunities in Food Aid System Washington, D.C.; March 29, 2012 – More than 17 million people could receive life-saving food aid at no additional cost to U.S. taxpayers if Congress cuts red-tape in the U.S. Farm Bill – according to new research from international relief and development organizations Oxfam America and …
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A Jewish Feminism for Global Challenges
Originally posted on The Sisterhood Blog of The Forward. This is the seventh installment in the series “What Jewish Feminism Means to Me.” As a child in the 1940s and ’50s, I unknowingly experienced Jewish feminism before it really existed. Beginning in 1938 my mother, Marjorie Wyler, worked full-time as the Jewish Theological Seminary’s director …
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Story of a Fish Pond in Rural Mexico
Originally posted on The Jew and the Carrot. This is the story of a fishpond. Not just any old fishpond, but a fishpond in Muchucuxcah (Pronounce the x like a sh), Mexico, four hours west of Cancun. I was in Muchucuxcah for ten days in January with American Jewish World Service’s Rabbinical Students Delegation. We were there …
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