Posts Tagged: Joint Distribution Committee
At Passover, Ukraine’s Jews Bank on JDC Relief Efforts Amid Prolonged Chaos
JNS.org - As Ukraine continues to unravel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) will try to help that country's Jews celebrate as normal...
Jewish Organizations to Extend Emergency Assistance to Ukraine’s Jewish Community
JNS.org - Jewish organizations have set up emergency assistance for Ukraine's roughly 200,000-member Jewish community amid ongoing political unrest there. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee...
Don’t Forget Jewish Poverty in Europe
JNS.org - When the economic crisis hit Bulgaria in 2011, Yana—a Jewish mother of three—was one of the first casualties. She lost her job...
John Kerry, Members of Congress Praise Joint Distribution Committee at its Centennial
JNS.org - WASHINGTON—On John Kerry's first visit to Israel in 1986, he toured a bomb shelter in Kiryat Shemona, inserted a prayer into...
A Jewish Perspective on the Ukrainian Protests
JNS.org - In a country engulfed by anti-government protests, Ukrainian Jews find themselves facing the same existential choice as the rest of the...
The Final Ethiopian Aliyah
I recently joined the Jewish Federation of North America to bear witness to the final chapter of the Ethiopian aliyah. It was a complex, thirty-plus...
Joint Distribution Committee Announces New CEO
The world's largest Jewish relief organization, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), has announced that Alan Gill will take the reins as CEO of...
Sandy’s Wrath Spurs Comprehensive Jewish Community Response
NEW YORK—Hurricane Sandy stormed into New York and New Jersey with unmitigated force, carrying death and destruction, disrupting lives, and devastating neighborhoods in America's most...
INTERVIEW: Natan Sharansky on Funding, Identity Building, and Democracy
After spending nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Natan Sharansky learned not to get too caught up in current events. "You have to look at [the...
