Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 26 June 2003
In October 2001, the presidents of Montevideo's four communities solicited the aid of the JDC in merging and centralizing their financial resources. During the last year, the JDC and the communities took one of their first steps by establishing the Tzedakah Foundation Uruguay. The JDC has pledged to provide the Tzedakah Foundation with $120,000 per year to cover basic welfare needs, in addition to aid in training and technical and professional support. "The Uruguayan Jewish community is one of the great communities that is temporarily in crisis and needs help," said Steven Schwager, the JDC's executive vice president. "The American Jewish community will do what is necessary to help the Uruguayan Jewish community recover and resume its rich, structured Jewish life. It is our moral obligation as brethren…"
Chi Gong, the 'mother' of all martial arts, improves life for the elderly
The Jerusalem Post Jun 19, 2003
A few years ago, the ancient Chinese martial art called Tai Chi was shown in an article in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society to reduce frailty and falls in older people. Now there are hopes that a related, more delicate Chinese technique called Chi Gong will prove advantageous for the elderly in Israel… Drora Leibowitz… is coordinator of a new Chi Gong course for teachers. It is being funded and organized by the JDC and ESHEL in coordination with the Wingate Institute for Physical Education near Netanya…Then the Brookdale Institute is planning to study the long-term effects on the elderly.
Jews face economic decline
Latin America Press Jun 19, 2003
According to a new 138-page study commissioned by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee called "Poverty, Vulnerability and Risk in the Uruguayan Jewish Community," 22 percent of the country’s adult Jewish population is "poor" and 40.5 percent "vulnerable." This is a direct consequence of the economic meltdown in neighboring Argentina (LP, Jan. 14, 2002), which used to send Uruguay two million tourists a year and, along with Brazil, accounted for much of the country’s external trade. But tourism and trade have suffered, and last year prices jumped by 25.9 percent while Uruguay’s Gross Domestic Product shrunk by an alarming 10.8 percent.
Jewish World – June 16, 2003
Recently, the JDC or "Joint" sent Sharon Faulkner…to explore rumors of Jewish life at the top of the world… found approximately 2,000 Jews living there, including the mayor, the deputy mayor, adults, young people—many of the children of parents who perished in the gulag. "When they heard we were there, word spread like wildfire…"
Ukraine's Reform rabbi keeps the faith
JUNE 16, 2003
"If someone was to tell you that Judaism is only about tradition, don't believe them, because the best way to preserve tradition is to develop," he said. "Judaism is not only a religion but a way of life." …reclaiming synagogues, starting schools and running social welfare programs, … international funding for Jewish causes in Ukraine -- including donations of American Reform Jews distributed through agencies like the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Katsav, JDC leaders discuss aid to elderly
The Jerusalem Post June 16, 2003
Local and international leaders of the JDC met Sunday with President Moshe Katsav to discuss new programs to aid senior citizens. Concerned by the drastic effect that cutbacks in pensions and governmental allowances will have on the elderly, Katsav asked the JOINT to devise a special program on their behalf. The JOINT offered to coordinate between the private sector, charities, and governmental bodies…
Jews Desperate For Jobs Turning To Buenos Aires Agency
Chicago Jewish News – 12 June 2003
The Ariel Job Center in Buenos Aires does much of the same things as the Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco, except for this "only in Argentina" touch: It has offered training on how to become a soccer referee-- a highly viable job… The Ariel Job Center, which serves the Jewish community of Argentina exclusively, was founded by the JDC in 2001, several months before the rioting broke out in December of that year. "It was a good moment to start," said Goldschmidt. "The JDC was aware of the situation before the big crisis." The JDC provides 80 percent of the center's funding.
Sh’ma Magazine – May 2003
Israel’s economy continues to weaken. Recession, layoffs, massive government budget cuts resulting in reduction of transfer payment – all are adding to the burden of Israel’s weakest populations… Ironically, the subsistence lifestyle that sustained Ethiopian families for generations prepared them to withstand today’s poverty… As bleak as the picture may appear, closer analysis shows considerable progress in helping the Ethiopian Israelis achieve the economic self-sufficiency they seek... This progress demonstrates in part the investment the Israeli government, in partnership with the JDC, has made integrating Ethiopian-Israelis into the workforce. From a major campaign of finding jobs for men who arrived in Operation Solomon, to a program that provides young adults with both a 10th grade education and a vocational diploma, the JDC has long fostered employment…
Shanghai Ghetto
Newton Magazine May 2003
When the refugees arrived in Shanghai they could live anywhere they wanted. But the majority had no money and lived in low-cost housing provided by the JDC. Much of the JDC housing was located in Hongkew… After the Japanese occupation ended, the JDC once again helped the refugees to emigrate to the West.
Tiny Contingent Still Ponders: Stay in Kosovo or Make Aliyah?
Jewish News - May 2003
At one end of the restaurant, hangs a large blue banner from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee… where the JDC’s fourth annual seder in Kosovo is being held. The JDC’s administrator, Jackie Godlove, rises… "This is a time of transition," she says. Unfortunately, this will be the last seder put on by JDC in Kosovo. The organization is significantly scaling back its operations in the coming months after four years in the territory.
Plight of Argentine Jews: It’s Still a Bad Nightmare for the Saturday Strollers
American Israelite - May 22, 2003
At 4 o’clock every Shabbat afternoon, several dozen seniors in Buenos Aires step off for a two-hour stroll… Members of this group receive food stamps, clothing, and spending money… from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the local Tzedaka foundation… The JDC also sponsors unemployment offices.
Moroccan Jews rocked by attacks, but king promises them protection
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 18 May 2003
...U.S.-based Jewish groups contacted the Moroccan community, asking if they needed help...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which helps Moroccan Jewish institutions such as schools, medical services and old-age homes, "will consult closely with the leaders of the Jewish community to assess what should be further steps to maintain the rich fabric of Jewish communal life in Morocco," said JDC's executive vice president...But the community assured JDC officials that it feels safe and doesn't need immediate financial assistance...
With JDC's help, center bridges gap between Serbs, Albanians in Kosovo
Jewish Telegraphic Agency -15 May 2003
...The organization has been operating in Mitrovica for several years, but it wasn't until a few months ago, when the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee took up the cause in earnest, that it was able to really serve "as a bridge between communities," says the JDC's main representative in Kosovo... In cooperation with the Soros Foundation's Kosova Foundation for Open Society, the JDC facilitated the peace center's move into the community center building and outfitted it with a large computer lab with an Internet connection...
Searchable Memories
Detroit Jewish News - 13 May 2003
...The tragedies suffered by European Jews should not be our only lasting memories of them, says Edward Serotta of Vienna, director of Centropa, a Jewish historical Web site...With Centropa, a project launched last September, Serotta and his staff are creating a different way of looking at Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. The Web site's "Contemporary Jewish Life" section has a gallery of Serotta's photographs, searchable by country and subject matter. The captioned images show Jews living in the region today...Centropa staffers usually interview Jews encountered at soup kitchens operated by the Joint Distribution Committee in major population centers...
Making the Heart Seize: Contemporary Art Delivers an Emotional Wallop in New Exhibit
The Forward - 9 May 2003
...Each piece at the Jewish Museum's new exhibit, "Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions," encourages a kind of absorbed study and many of them, once surrendered to, deliver a real emotional wallop... And you learn that the [some] pictures are taken from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's photo archives...
JDC, Federation to Send Fellow Abroad
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - May 9, 2003
A fellowship was established to send individuals interested in spending a year helping Jewish communities overseas. The Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee are seeking applicants who… "have a strong commitment to Jewish life and the spirit of adventure," according to the JDC.
Feeding Moldovan Jewish Children Well
Florida Heritage Jewish News – May 9, 2003
Two years ago, a survey of Moldovan Jewry found that 4% of children here go to bed hungry… A new program run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in this former Soviet republic aims to address the problem. The JDC launched the Let My Children Grow program with a $250,000 grant from private U.S. sources. "We hope this programs will also serve the goal of getting parents involved," said Vladimir Kvitko, JDC’s regional coordinator.
With her Bat Mitzvah money, New Jersey girl helps Cuban kids
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 8 May 2003
...Jennifer, a student at the Solomon Schechter of Bergen County in New Jersey, chose to spend her Bat Mitzvah money in a rather unique way: She donated more than $600 to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to finance the Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations of six young teens in Havana...
Across the FSU: In breakway land, Jews live poorly, but it's still 'better to be Jewish here'
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 8 May 2003
...The small Jewish community receives generous support from the JDC, which runs various welfare and cultural programs similar to those in other communities in the former Soviet Union. "To us, these are two separate states, though the work we are doing in Trans-Dniester is similar to what we are doing elsewhere in Moldova," says Kishinev-based director of the JDC Moldova office. The five-year-old Chesed Chana welfare center sponsored by the JDC is located in a tidy two-story building in Tiraspol constructed two years ago with funds donated by a family from Pittsburgh. Most Jews insist that they have no problems with their non-Jewish neighbors and rarely experience anti-Semitism...
With help from JDC and Israel, center helps Turkey's street kids
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 7 May 2003
... Reyhan is among an estimated 9,000 children working on the streets in this economically-struggling city of 900,000, a major center in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast... Many of those, experts say, eventually end up not just working but also living on the street...Now children in Diyarbakir have had a better shot at leaving street-selling behind: Since 1999 the city has had a center for street children, offering them educational activities and social work assistance designed to keep them from leaving school or home. The center is the first of its kind in Turkey, but it's also unique in another way: Much of the funding comes from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, an organization better known for its relief work with distressed Jewish communities around the globe...The JDC also is helping to open a similar center in Adiyaman, another city in southeastern Turkey with a large population of street children...
Jewish group feeds needy
The Cincinnati Enquirer - 6 May 2003
...the JDC is still hard at work feeding more than 300,000 hungry people every year at a cost of about $80 million...president and chief executive officer of the JDC, were in Cincinnati on Monday discussing the organization's work with members of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, one of 195 such federations around the country that provide much of the JDC's funding. There are three areas the JDC is focusing much of its resources on, though it faces a $19.7 million shortfall...
As floods recede in Argentina, Jews survey their wrecked homes
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 6 May 2003
...The floods forced the evacuation of 45,000 people, killed 23 and left 1,200 missing, according to army officials who are leading rescue efforts... "More help will be needed," said the director of international community development for the JDC. The JDC is coordinating relief efforts with the nation's Jewish umbrella organization, AMIA; the Tzedaka welfare foundation; and local officials. The JDC already had sent about $3,500 for immediate rescue needs and sent a staffer to supervise assistance efforts on the ground...
Making Jewish Strides
Jewish Week – May 2, 2003
With some 3,300 Jews, Serbia… has one of the smallest Jewish communities in Europe. Serbia’s mostly Sephardic community receives the majority of its funding from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee… The JDC runs leadership training seminars, underwrites the studies of a Serbian rabbinical student…and supports nondenominational medical clinics and soup kitchens.
This Year in Belgrade: Leading a community seder in a former Soviet-bloc country.
Jewish Week - 25 April 2003
..."From 25 Jews in Prizern, Kosovo, to 500 Jews in Magadan, Siberia, a place so remote and frozen that it is accessible only by sporadic flights, what I see in common is that all who are spiritually hungry can come now and be Jewishly nourished," said JDC executive vice president. "This is a special dimenson of ‘from slavery to freedom…Belgrade has had one communal seder - as in many venues around the region, the holiday meal is held only one night - since Rabbi Asiel assumed his post here eight years ago…The Serbian seders, in Belgrade and in several smaller communities, were sponsored this year by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the overseas arm of American Jewry…
Haggadah in Magadan: Passover Celebration in Siberia
Jerusalem Post – 15 April 2003
…Magadan is one of the many isolated communities serviced by JDC. In fact, it was uninhabited until 1932. The only way to get to Magadan is by plane. This Pesach will be celebrated where there are 500 Jews in a total population of 130,000. JDC staff will hand deliver matzot and Haggadot so a community Seder can be conducted. Tapes of songs that are sung at the Seder table will also be supplied ensuring that no one will feel left out and unfamiliar…
Jews in jeopardy?
Jewish Telegraphic Agency –24 Mar 2003
…Jews in Muslim countries may become vulnerable during the U.S. attack on Iraq, a U.S. Jewish official warned. "There are indications that angry and instigated crowds could turn violent and direct their anger and aggression toward individual Jews and Jewish communal installations," said Steven Schwager, executive vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the federation system's international relief and welfare arm…
Federation’s Annual Campaign reaches past Israel to help communities worldwide
Detroit Jewish News – 24 Mar 2003
The needs of Jewish communities are everywhere — just ask Stuart Saffer. Working for JDC since 1989, Saffer has helped rebuild Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union… All together, the JDC helps about 300,000 Jews in need outside of Israel, and 260,000 of those Jews get daily assistance from 170 Heseds (social welfare centers) around the world… The Jewish world has become more difficult and severe in the last three years," he said. Saffer said this year’s budget has a $20 million shortfall, half for the Argentinean program, and half in the Soviet Union… "We have to find the resources to reach out to them," he said. "We’re not going to cut services because people are waiting for the packages and the food vouchers..."
Jews raise aid money
Jewish Telegraphic Agency –21 Mar 2003
Jewish groups are raising humanitarian aid money for Iraqis… The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee opened a mailbox Wednesday for emergency funds…
Rebirth For Slovenian Jewry
Baltimore Jewish Times – 20 Mar 2003
… The occasion was a ceremony formally installing Ariel Haddad as chief rabbi of Slovenia and welcoming a Torah scroll for the community's new synagogue — the first Torah and synagogue in Slovenia since the Holocaust and the first in the capital, Ljubljana, since Jews were expelled from the city in 1515… The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee administered the finances. "We are a small community, but Jewish life is beginning here as we speak," community president Andrej Kozar Beck said… When Beck took over as community president in the late 1990s, … aided by the JDC, the community has obtained a meeting room and begun programming activities. This year, it hosted young Jews from Prague for a Purim youth weekend in Ljubljana…
Heading east: KC group to exchange social-service ideas in Europe
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle – 14 Mar 2003
…"This is a very unique program," said trip leader Deborah Granoff, special projects director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City. "Each community will benefit from this program by participants returning to their respective communities and bringing back with them fresh ideas for innovative, best practices…"The exchange grew out of ongoing partnerships between Kansas City and the Romanian and Bulgarian Jewish communities, which have received humanitarian aid from Kansas City Jewry for the past several years. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which organizes and operates Jewish communal services around the world, helped set up the exchange program. Kansas City is the only American city that is involved in such an exchange…
Israeli Arab town hails its educational breakthrough
Ha’aretz – 12 Mar 2003
… Since 1998, the town's student matriculation eligibility rate soared from 21 to 56.6 percent; the school dropout rate has shrunk from 25 to 3 percent; and the proportion of the town's high school graduates studying at institutes of higher learning has risen from 0.9 to 2.1 percent. These are just a few of the fruits of the experimental cooperation program, in its fifth year, involving Tamra and the Joint Distribution Committee-Brookdale Institute. "[Tamra] is a typical Arab community with a social and values crisis that stems from generation gaps and its encounter with a Western culture"…
Circus Welcomes Purim Celebrants
Moscow Times – 14 Mar 2003
Although most of the world's Jews mark the anniversary with cookies, costumes
and kosher wine, Moscow's Jews have added yet another component to the revelry:
a trip to the circus. The local offices of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, on Tuesday holds its second annual Purimshpiel at the Moscow Circus
on Tsvetnoi Bulvar. The festivities are described by organizers as a family
event featuring short scripture readings, music, contests and prizes, traditional
Purim foods and plenty of circus clowns. "There's a tradition to celebrate
with organized performances and readings from the book of Esther and, of course,
Jews should drink -- mostly kosher wine," said Yelena Krentsel, public
relations manager at the JDC. "All the rest of the year is so serious,
so for Purim there is a tradition to be joyful, to dance in the streets."
Argentine Hillel Opening 'Seed Of Hope'
Baltimore Jewish Times –13 Mar 2003
…That's how the executive director of Argentina's first Hillel characterized
the center's opening this week. Hundreds of Jews from the United States, Israel,
Argentina and other Latin American countries gathered for the celebration. Others
attending the event included Stephen Hoffman, president of the United Jewish
Communities, the umbrella organization of the North American federation system;
Israel Singer, chairman of the World Jewish Congress and president of the Claims
Conference; Israel's ambassador to Argentina, Benjamin Oron; and Michael Schneider,
former president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
60 years later, withered remnant of Macedonian Jewry remembers
Jewish Telegraphic Agency –11 Mar 2003
…a small group somberly gathered to recall the day exactly 60 years ago that
almost all of Macedonia’s Jewish population was rounded up to be sent to Treblinka.
Yechiel Bar-Chaim, director of programs in the region for the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), highlighted the strong involvement of non-Jews
in commemoration events. "I am always impressed by how much Macedonians believe
that these events don’t only concern Jews, but that they are an expression of
the deep-felt sadness and loss on the part of all of society." JDC sponsors
several programs in Macedonia, and helps fund the Belgrade-based rabbi who serves
the community...
Healing Ethnic Wounds Through Education and Partnership
Monday Developments –10 Mar 2003
When the United States and its allies forced the Serbian military to withdraw
from Kosovo in 1999, the JDC, at the request of UNICEF, rebuilt or repaired
37 primary schools…The JDC took steps in the revamped schools to promote reconciliation
among the Albanians, Serbs and Roma that inhabit Kosovo…This program by JDC
and UNICEF is an example of the effective, high-impact overseas partnership
Americans support because it is the right thing and the smart thing to do.
Iraq's Glorious Jewish Past
Baltimore Jewish Times – 7 Mar 2003
… As America prepares for a possible war in the Persian Gulf, .. the few Jews
left in Iraq — about half of whom are elderly and said to be seeking haven in
the last remaining synagogue in Baghdad — their situation is fragile. "They
are a tiny, vulnerable group and current rhetoric from the Iraqi government
increase their fears and ours," according to Steven Schwager, executive
vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Top Charities Spar Over Turf
The Forward – 7 Mar 2003
…"We would be perfectly happy, delighted, not to have to go around the
country and raise money in this manner," the executive vice-president of
the JDC, Steven Schwager, told the Forward. "We asked the ONAD committee
to make a change in this formula. The committee put off that decision. Consequently
we're left with no choice." Four federations have already committed themselves
to complying with the JDC's appeal, Schwager said…
JDC upsets federation system with appeal for emergency funds
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 4 Mar 2003
…In an extraordinary move to meet pressing human needs abroad, the organized
Jewish community’s main rescue and relief agency has made a direct appeal to
local federations for emergency funding. UJC leaders meeting in Miami in January
had authorized the JDC to raise $10 million in supplemental funds for Argentina.
But a specific amount of money was never authorized to aid elderly Jews in the
FSU — though the UJC’s overseas committee had earlier validated this as an "elective"
need. For his part, JDC’s president, Eugene Ribakoff, said his organization
remains committed to a national allocations system. "We believe in the UJC process,
and we’re following it," he said…
As overseas funding is cut, future of Moscow JCC uncertain
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 3 Mar 2003
…Jewish life across the former Soviet Union has enjoyed a renaissance of cultural,
educational and religious life over the past decade. But the uncertain future
of the Taganka JCC raises the question of who will pay to ensure that the renaissance
continues. …Its main funder, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
has said it will no longer provide $150,000 to pay the center’s annual rent.
JDC officials say new challenges for Jews worldwide — particularly in Argentina
and Israel — have added to an already critical budgetary situation for some
JDC projects in the former Soviet Union. "JDC’s budget overseas will be cut
and is being cut," says Ralph Goldman, the organization’s honorary executive
vice president, who was instrumental in bringing the JDC back to the region
during the era of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev…
Uzbek Jew a community leader — and he’s also a checkers champion
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 26 Feb 2003
… Fazilov, 48, has left his mark in the record books: He was the three-time
junior checkers champion in the Soviet Union, and he’s now won two of the seven
world championships in which he’s competed for Uzbekistan, the ex-Soviet republic…
As the last of six siblings left here, Fazilov knows better than most how poverty
and immigration have decimated the Bukharan presence in Uzbekistan, even as
Jewish life rebounds after 75 years of repressive Soviet rule. Via the JDC,
Fazilov has become a virtual lifeline to some 170 elderly Jews living in Samarkand,
providing them with vital medicine and food relief…
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Crisis in Iraq: Iraq home to glorious Jewish past but to a lonely and fragile
present
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – 9 Feb 2003
… "They are a tiny, vulnerable group and current rhetoric from the Iraqi government
increase their fears and ours," according to Steven Schwager, executive vice
president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. "As soon as circumstances
allow, JDC will do whatever is humanly possible to help them."
In Uzbekistan, community is built even as students think of leaving
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 17 Feb 2003
… Here in the sanctuary of Hillel, which is largely supported by the Charles
and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, students speak freely about their dictatorial government, America?s
threat of a war against Iraq …
Hillel Rising In Russia
Jewish Times - 21 Feb 2003
… Hillel in the former Soviet Union was established and operates with the support
of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, in partnership with the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Hillel: The Foundation for
Jewish Campus Life. In the post-Communist Jewish reality, Hillel groups often
play a crucial role in community building and ensuring Jewish continuity. This
is especially true in some smaller communities, where Jewish life is not as
rich as in Moscow or Kiev.
'Sweep' of Jewish history in Ukrainian city
Cleveland Jewish News, OH - 28 Jan 2003
... among many programs run by the Hesed Shushana welfare center, the leading
Jewish organization in Chernovtsy. The center, which operates on funds it receives
from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, opened few years ago
with a primary goal of supplying the impoverished elderly Jews that constitute
about one-third of the community with meals, medical care, home visits and library
programs…
Jewish organization here a top contributor
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 20 Jan 2003
... the city also is home to three of the highest-profile international programs
run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the federation's overseas
arm....
Argentine Center Almost Out Of Debt
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - 25 Jan 2003
... While 90 percent of the money paid came from AMIA, the remaining 10 percent was given by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee...
Job bank for Argentine Jews
Cleveland Jewish News, OH - 24 Jan 2003
... Society has partnered with Buenos Aires' Ariel Job Center, a job training
and resource
center sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to ...
Top Baltimore Fundraiser Taking a Job at the 'Joint'
Forward, NY - 22 Jan 2003
... resigning as president of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of
Baltimore
and joining the staff of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ...
American Jewish officials seek solutions for Argentine community
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 17 Jan 2003
... summer camps, welfare and job centers, and met with social workers and beneficiaries
of programs sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ...
Constructing the Building Blocks of Jewish Peoplehood in the Former Soviet
Union
Hillel.org, World - 21 Jan 2003
... Hillel in the FSU was established through the support of the Charles and
Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation in partnership with the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life....
Venezuela's Jewish Community Shrinks
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - 16 Jan 2003
... The red flags have been raised, prompting a visit from the American Jewish
Joint
Distribution Committee to instruct community leaders as to what to do if the
...
Kansas City native to volunteer in Poland
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, KS - 03 Jan 2003
Kansas City native Josh Ellis is about to head to Poland for a year as part
of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Jewish Service Corps, aiming
...
Ancient Haggadah symbol of peace in battered Bosnia
Dallas Baptist Standard, TX - 10 Jan 2003
... the book's own journey through history reflects the tales of rescue that
are told within its pages, said Yechiel Bar-Chaim, a program director for the
American Joint Distribution Committee, the main overseas philanthropic arm of
the American Jewish community…
