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American Jewish World Service to lay off 10% of staff, pare back global operations
New York Jewish Week via JTA — The American Jewish World Service, a prominent Jewish international aid group, is set to lay off around 10% of its staff of 120 after it said donors withdrew ...
Jewish community fights to keep history alive on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
It's been 80 years since the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated at the end of World War II, but surveys are showing ...
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GI JEWS -- JEWISH AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II
more powerfully American and more deeply Jewish, determined to continue the fight for equality and tolerance at home. Support for GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II was made possible in ...
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Post-Katrina rebuilding efforts fueling Jewish service movement
It started in earnest a decade or so ago, with the rise of then-small organizations like the American Jewish World Service, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps, and Jewish Funds for Justice that ...
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New documentary explores American Jewish identity in a time of crisis
I felt we were rather the conscience of the free world.” However, the formation of Israel created other tensions in the American Jewish community between those who felt Israel was a good ...
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Inside the $125 million Jewish international aid industry
NEW YORK (JTA) — Eighty percent of Jews live in two countries — Israel and the United States — but Jewish organizations are spending more and more of their money elsewhere. Jewish aid to the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs19d
Jewish groups around the world are bittersweet on a hostage deal
Jewish community groups around the world cautiously welcomed the announcement ... to President Joe Biden's administration by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Jewish Federations of North ...
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American Jewish Groups Opposing Gaza Resettlement Have Learned Nothing from History
In case of abuse, The Times of Israel recently reported the statements of a number of prominent centrist and liberal American Jewish organizations opposing the resettlement of Gaza by Jews ...