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Ruth Messinger Delivers World Food Day Message: Challenge Unfair Trade Policies, Reform Foreign Assistance and Support Local Farming
AJWS president Ruth W. Messinger has issued a statement in response to this week’s report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which concluded that hunger now affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. On World Food Day, Messinger is calling on Americans to challenge international trade policies that favor corporations at the expense of the world’s poorest people.
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Ruth Messinger Joins Other Faith-Based Leaders at White House Meeting on Sudan
Representatives from faith communities nationwide met with Reverend Joshua DuBois, Director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, today, to discuss the ongoing violence in Sudan.
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Longtime AJWS Grantee A Focus In Highly Anticipated Book By The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof And Author Sheryl WuDunn
AJWS is proud to congratulate its grantee Tostan, which is the focus of a chapter in acclaimed journalist Nicholas Kristof’s and author Sheryl WuDunn’s upcoming book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
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AJWS Announces $3.2 Million in New Grants
AJWS has recently awarded more than $3.2 million to 151 grassroots project partners in 28 countries. The new grants are divided into five categories, which include sustainable livelihoods and development, community health, community voice, education for all, and community engagement in conflict and emergencies. They provide funding to organizations in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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AJWS President, Ruth Messinger, Serving On Obama Poverty Task Force
AJWS president Ruth W. Messinger has been appointed to serve on the Obama administration’s Task Force on Global Poverty and Development. The task force was created by the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which is working to identify areas in which improved, expanded and innovative partnerships between government and faith-based community organizations will yield results in serving individuals, families and communities.
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AJWS Cheers Cancellation of Haiti’s Debt
AJWS has applauded the recent decision by the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to cancel the $1.2 billion in debt owed to these institutions by the Government of Haiti.
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AJWS Elects New Board Chair
AJWS has announced that Barbara Dobkin will serve as its new board chair, the organization’s principal lay leadership position.
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AJWS Concerned by Recent Obama Administration Statement on Darfur Genocide
AJWS, long involved in the fight against the genocide in Darfur, expressed concern today that the Obama administration is sending contradictory signals in recognizing the magnitude of what has taken place and continues to occur on the ground in Darfur.
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AJWS Receives Generous Grant to Expand Rabbinical Students’ Delegation Program
AJWS has received a generous grant from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust to expand its Rabbinical Students’ Delegation (RSD) program.
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AJWS Names New VP for Programs
AJWS has named Aaron Dorfman its new Vice President for Programs. As AJWS’s Director of Education since 2005, Dorfman has created and implemented educational programs and resources that encourage American Jews to think critically about and engage in the pursuit of social justice for all, worldwide.
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