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A new leader to take over AJWS global activities
After 17 fruitful years serving as president of American Jewish World Service, Ruth Messinger will step down later this year. But she’s not retiring.
As she noted, “I’m not the retiring type.”
On July 1, Messinger will hand the reins to current executive vice president Robert Bank. Messinger will then take on the role of global ambassador for the venerable Jewish social justice nonprofit.
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American Jewish World Service Mourns the Death of Murdered Honduran Human Rights Activist Berta Cáceres
American Jewish World Service mourns the tragic loss of Berta Cáceres, a veteran human rights advocate in Honduras whose work AJWS has supported. Cáceres was killed early this morning in her home. Cáceres was a champion of human and environmental rights in Honduras and fought bravely for the rights of indigenous communities.
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AJWS Los Angeles: What’s Happening
I am delighted to share my first newsletter of 2016 and to take note of the many accomplishments of AJWS in the past year—which I know make you as proud as they make me!
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One on 1 Profile: Ruth Messinger’s Life After New York City Politics Has Taken The Former City Councilmember Around the World
As a city council member, Manhattan borough president and then mayoral candidate, Ruth Messinger’s focus was New York City. But after leaving local politics, she embarked on a new career, one that has taken her around the world. “I would start my speeches by saying ‘Let me introduce myself, I’m a recovering elected official,’” Messinger …
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The Time is Now: Reflections from the Global Justice Fellowship trip to the Dominican Republic
Last month, 10 rabbis from across the U.S. spent a week in the Dominican Republic as part of a Global Justice Fellowship trip with AJWS. Focusing heavily on the Dominican government’s policies related to the citizenship status of Dominicans of Haitian descent, the delegation met with grantees working to address some of the most pressing human rights issues in the region. Rabbi Elyse Winick, the Jewish chaplain at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, wrote this reflection at the end of the trip.
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Mandy Patinkin’s Ongoing Human Rights Education
Mandy Patinkin, stage, screen and television actor (Che Guevara, Inigo Montoya, Saul Berenson), and Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service and democratic mayoral challenger to Rudy Giuliani in 1997, talk about their recent trip to Cambodia to meet with human rights and labor activists.
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
As I write this, we are only six weeks away from AJWS’s 30th Anniversary Gala celebration here in the Bay Area. Our San Francisco gala will celebrate AJWS’s leadership in the world as a Jewish voice for ending poverty and promoting human rights.
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Rabbis Return From American Jewish World Service Delegation to the Dominican Republic Where they Witnessed an Ongoing Human Rights Crisis
Rabbis met with activists working to reverse the Dominican government’s policy to strip tens of thousands Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship rights New York, NY — Ten Rabbis from across the country returned from the Dominican Republic earlier this week as part of a Global Justice Fellowship trip with American Jewish World Service …
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