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June 15, 2022 by Justin Jacobs

Know Your History, Master Your Future: How One Senegalese Activist is Mobilizing Youth By Illuminating his Community’s Forgotten Tragedy

In Thiaroye, Senegal—less than 10 miles from the country’s bustling, metropolitan capital of Dakar—a rusty metal gate separates bumper-to-bumper traffic and densely-packed produce markets from a painful but forgotten piece of Senegalese history. Inside the gate, the noise of the city disappears. Tall palms offer some shade, but the sun bears down on unmarked stone …

October 22, 2018 by Leah Kaplan Robins

Planting the seeds for reconciliation in Senegal

In a garden in Casamance, Senegal, sprouts poke hopefully out of the soil. They are the simple beginnings of carrots, onions and radishes. But they represent so much more than food. The women who planted and nurtured them are recovering from years of fear and violence. Casamance, the southwestern region of Senegal, has been ravaged …

June 23, 2017

Senegal: in Casamance, the hope of a new era

“Neither war nor peace.” It is in these terms that the Casamancais describe the conflict that has long shaken this region of southern Senegal. With the lull of recent years, they hope to finally return to a lasting peace and economic development.

January 27, 2017 by Tracey Gurd

Senegal’s Historic Opportunity to Advance Peace in West Africa

As the global media focused on an historic transition of power in Washington D.C. last week, an even more dramatic presidential transition took place in the West Africa in The Gambia, with the support of its neighbor, Senegal.

June 20, 2016 by Angela Cave

On World Refugee Day, the Displaced People You’re Not Hearing About

The world has watched in horror as migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa have embarked on treacherous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. On this World Refugee Day, the international spotlight, rightly, shines on this vast crisis—and American Jewish World Service stands in solidarity with human rights organizations working in Europe to mitigate the devastation. But we also hope the world will remember the scores of people from other parts of the globe forced to flee their homes.

Dvar Tzedek

March 19, 2012 | 5772

Vayikra

The book of Leviticus begins with a call. The first word of this section of Torah, from which it gets its Hebrew name—vayikra—describes God calling out to Moses, inviting the prophet to enter in to the Tent of Meeting, the space in which Moses is able to communicate with God and exercise his role as …

August 8, 2011 | 5771

Va’etchanan

We know the price of an air-conditioned hotel and a plane… [Short-term overseas volunteer trips to the developing world are] an act of affluent tourism masquerading as community service.” —Senior executive, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers[1] Like this wary university administrator, I have harbored suspicions toward service-learning programs to the Global …

February 28, 2011 | 5771

Pekudei

The Israelites’ first building project—the Mishkan—is about to be completed. We can recognize similarities between its construction and the building of our own communal structures: raising the funds, enlisting a contractor and choosing design elements. And yet, though modern communal leaders often ceremonially lay the cornerstone—complete with the entertaining and tellingly odd juxtaposition of dress …

November 29, 2010 | 5771

Miketz

Yosef’s get-out-of-jail free card, his ability to interpret dreams, thrusts the young son of Yaakov into a position of responsibility that would have been difficult to imagine when his brothers first sold him. After interpreting Paroh’s dreams as foretelling seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine, Yosef, in a strikingly courageous act, …

July 6, 2010 | 5770

Matot-Masei

Parshat Masei opens as the wanderings of the Israelites are coming to an end. The land east of the Jordan has been conquered and divided, and God is commanding Moshe regarding the procedures to be followed upon entering Israel. Included in these commandments is a verse that dictates that when the Jews enter Canaan, they …