Running Toward a Better World
Josh Kahn is running this year’s New York City Marathon with AJWS. Here, he recalls how a trip to Honduras in his teens and his strong, globally minded grandmother influenced him.
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Mourning the loss of human rights defender Angélica Miriam Quitanilla Hernández
On Friday, May 6th, the world lost an extraordinary human rights defender, Angélica Miriam Quitanilla Hernández. Angélica, a sex worker activist, leader and AJWS grantee, was assassinated just two blocks from her office in El Salvador. This news comes only months after Berta Cáceres, human rights defender and another close friend and longtime grantee of …
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Witness to Berta Cáceres’ Murder Allowed to Return Home After Month-Long Detainment by Honduran Government
Leading Jewish international human rights organization continues to urge Honduran government to accept an independent, international investigation into Berta Cáceres’ assassination and protect all human rights defenders in the country New York, NY – American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish international development and human rights organization, applauds the release of environmental activist Gustavo …
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AJWS Staff Joins Rally Demanding Justice for Murdered Honduran Activist
On March 3rd, unknown assailants murdered Berta Cáceres, a Honduran human rights defender and environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting the land and human rights of indigenous people. Berta and the organization she founded and directed, AJWS grantee Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indigenas de Honduras (COPINH), had received violent threats in recent months because of its work to resist the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, which was threatening the survival of the indigenous Lenca people.
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We Demand Justice for Assassinated Human Rights Activists in Honduras
In Honduras, ongoing violence and repression have reached new heights with two murders in two weeks of environmental and indigenous community activists: Berta Cáceres and Nelson García, leaders of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH).
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Behar-Bechukotai
This Land is Your Land Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” is perhaps the most celebrated love song for the varied wonders of American terrain. Although its verses reveal Guthrie’s love for the land, the song’s title and catchy refrain, “this land was made for you and me,” express how many of us relate …
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This Land is Your Land Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” is perhaps the most celebrated love song for the varied wonders of American terrain. Although its verses reveal Guthrie’s love for the land, the song’s title and catchy refrain, “this land was made for you and me,” express how many of us relate …
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Parshat D’varim is always read on the Shabbat immediately preceding Tish’a B’av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av—the day commemorating the destruction of both Temples. On this Shabbat, we read the first prophecy of Isaiah as our haftarah. It describes the destruction of Jerusalem, “The faithful city that was filled with justice, where …
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