The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
Originally posted on AidBuzz. As the world takes some time to reflect on the growing refugee crisis in many parts of the world, I’m taking a minute to think about some of the “lost refugees” who, for most people, are totally invisible. Medecins Sans Frontieres recently published a report that Dadaab Refugee Camp in north …
Walking on the El Prado Avenue, under the defiant brightness and burning winter sun of La Paz, Bolivia, I heard something much more defiant than the strong sun. It was the voices of a group of women. The chants from the distance sounded closer as I approached the well-trafficked main street in front of the …
Originally posted on Outside the Bubble, a blog written by Jamie Lippman, former AJWS World Partners Fellow in India. I got into a debate with a coworker. He was of the perspective that if you’re not a member of a community, then you’re out of place to be helping that community. In other words, communities …
This AJWS series on storytelling and justice is guest edited by Deji Olukotun. Judaism relishes a good story. The Torah, Judaism’s anchor text, bubbles over with stories—stories of love, stories of betrayal, stories of conquest, stories of loss. Writing centuries later, the rabbis continued to use stories as a powerful medium through which to teach …
For many of us, the situation in Sudan feels hopeless. In Sudan’s western region of Darfur, a genocide has continued for eight years, claiming the lives of more than 450,000 people and displacing millions of others. Meanwhile, decades of civil war between the North and South had finally ended in 2005, only to suffer repeated …
