A glimpse into the varied articles that have cited JDC's work around the world. To obtain a story's full text, please refer to the news source attributed.

"Keeping Pace With Nature’s Fury"
The Jewish Week - September 10, 2008
...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) have been actively working in areas affected by the tsunami, as well as in Myanmar (Burma), and the JDC has efforts in Georgia and China as well. When a disaster—natural or manmade—strikes, immediate relief is always necessary, but it is only made possible by quick and immediate fundraising.

"Abandoned synagogue gives shelter in Ossetian war"
Associated Press - August 22, 2008
...All but 17 of South Ossetia's Jews left during the earlier conflict, mostly going to Israel or Russia, and all but one of those fled during the recent war, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee says. The one remaining Jew, a 71-year-old woman, apparently sought shelter elsewhere.

"No Jew Left Behind"
The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent - August 21, 2008
...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee had a team in Tblisi, the Georgian capital, distributing food and other humanitarian aid. And the Jewish Agency for Israel's representatives were also there helping those Jews who wished to leave that embattled land to find a new home in the State of Israel.

"Small-scale aliya from war-torn Georgia continues"
The Jerusalem Post - August 18, 2008
...According to the JDC some 700 Jewish elderly and children were in the areas affected by the fighting and are among those receiving aid from the organization and Jewish communities abroad.

"Georgia's Jews staying put - for now"
Ha'Aretz - August 18, 2008
...On Friday morning, Zorab Karichali came to the office of the American Joint Distribution Committee (the "Joint") to ask for assistance from the aid organization. Three days earlier, he had fled the city of Gori with eight family members. Some are staying with family members, others in refugee centers.

"JFED organizes crisis relief for Georgia"
www.jewishinstlouis.org - August 18, 2008
...Overseas Federation partner agencies, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) maintain services in the region and are assisting the local Jewish community, which is estimated at 7,000-12,000 people. JAFI and JDC estimate some $2 million in potential emergency and longer-term needs.

"Georgia on our Minds"
New Jersey Jewish Standards - August 15, 2008
...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee estimates that more than 700 Jews have been displaced in recent days (see story, page 19), and international Jewish organizations, working closely with the Israeli government, have mobilized to evacuate members of the community, some to Israel.

"Refugees worry about loved ones"
The Telegraph (JTA blog) - August 14, 2008
...JDC has launched an effort to match their client lists of local Jews with those they have found from the area, but the process is slow, Ben Zvi said...The JDC staff has made several trips to the embattled city, now under Russian control, bringing in food packages and taking out local Jews. Many of those refugees are now scattered around Tbilisi.

"UJC launches Georgia campaign"
JTA - August 13, 2008
...UJC has set up a mailbox to take donations, in addition to a blog addressing the crisis. The organization's overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel, have been assisting the local Jewish community, a number of whom have made aliyah to Israel in recent days.

"Israelis, New Olim Airlifted From Tbilisi"
The Jewish Week - August 13, 2008
...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) estimates that more than 700 Jews have been displaced in recent days. The JDC has eight representatives in the region to help relocate local Jews.

"Jews trapped on both sides of Russian-Georgian conflict"
The Jewish Journal - August 12, 2008
...The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), one of the agencies working on the ground, estimates that more than 700 Jews have been displaced in recent days. Jews caught on both sides of the conflict looked back at the damage with starkly different political viewpoints.

"We Are Not Alone"
Jewish World - June 27, 2008
...Beginning their day with top Jewish leaders and opinion makers, the delegation gathered at American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) headquarters for a conversation with Steven Schwager, JDC executive vice president and CEO. Schwager welcomed the 20 members of the leadership delegation from Belarus, Israel, Ukraine, and Russia.
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"JDC official offers firsthand account of Myanmar devastation"
JTA – May 20, 2008
...Avgar, the executive director of the JDC's nonsectarian arm, the International Development Program, was one of the first aid workers employed by an American nongovernmental organization to be allowed into Myanmar after the cyclone wreaked its hell May 3.

"Aids Flow to China but Less to Myanmar"
CNN Money – May 20, 2008
...With the media focusing its attention away from Myanmar and on to China, the public has also shifted the direction of its donations.
"There is a direct correlation between donations and airtime on television," said Judy Amit, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee chief operating officer.

"Jewish Groups Mobilize For Myanmar "
LA Jewish Journal – May 9, 2008
...The JDC's International Development Program, which responds to natural and manmade disasters providing immediate relief and long-term assistance, collects funds on a nonsectarian basis. The JDC is helping some of the region's estimated 10 Jews.

"Jewish program helps put Georgia refugees to work"
JTA – April 24, 2008
…Dvali is a graduate of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s vocational training program in Tbilisi, an eight- month pilot program in dressmaking and design for low-income Georgians and the capital's sizable population of internally displaced refugees from the country’s war-torn separatist regions.

"Young Man With A (Business) Plan"
The Jewish Week – April 23, 2008
…In Israel, Sisat was just one of 350,000 kids—about 15 percent of the under-18 population—who are considered at-risk youth. When a representative from the Ministry of Education visited Sisat in his home, Sisat agreed to enroll in an alternative education program. A counselor there recognized Sisat’s business savvy and encouraged him to join Galshan, a small business venture run by Ashalim, which pilots more than 300 programs aimed at at-risk youth, in conjunction with The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the UJA-Federation of New York.

"Charities Struggle to Respond to Rising Food and Fuel Costs"
The Chronicle of Philanthropy – April 22, 2008
…Some have even been forced to scale back services. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in New York, dropped 25,000 people from a food and medical-assistance program in the former Soviet Union after expenses jumped by 20 percent. "We’ve lost $4-million in buying power," said Steve Schwager, the group’s chief executive officer. "We’ve had to cut off the least needy to ensure the most needy can still get food."

"A Jewish social service agency and a U.S.-based breast cancer awareness group are teaming to help treat breast disease in Bosnia"
JTA - April 16, 2008
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which have partnered through the JDC's Women's Health Empowerment Program, announced the creation of the Society of Senology at a conference this week in Bosnia- Herzegovina.

"Shaking Up the Seder Table at New York Restaurants"
Gothamist.com - April 15, 2008
Capsouto Freres is not only serving a Sephardic-style seder menu including their Matzo Mina, (layers of matzo, egg, potato, and a sprinkling of parmesan), but they're doing it for a good cause. The seders are serving as a fundraiser for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a humanitarian aid organization which works in over 60 countries worldwide. Seders are $150.00 donation, 100% of which goes to help communities in need overseas.

"Local houses of worship lending a hand in Cuba"
The Miami Herald – March 24, 2008
…The New York-based Joint Distribution Committee now sends regular shipments of food and religious items to Cuba along with communities from Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere. "Since the early 1990s, JDC has worked closely with each of the communities throughout the island and with the Cuban Jewish community in Miami to provide a lifeline of medicine and support, which has led to the renewal of Jewish life in Cuba," said Will Recant of JDC's international development program.

"Encouraging Service for Young Jews"
The New York Jewish Week - March 7, 2008
…So this year we made grants to six organizations: the Jewish National Fund, Yeshiva University, Jewish Funds for Justice, the American Jewish World Service, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and Hillel. Our goal was to increase by 30 percent the number of students participating this year in alternative spring breaks. The early results of those grants are very encouraging; each of the six organizations met our challenge.

"Ukrainian Survivor of Labor Camp Returns to Help His Native City of Lvov"
JTA – March 6, 2008
… "I don't know how Jewish life in Lvov would survive without people like him," says Danny Gechtman, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee representative for Kiev and western Ukraine.

"ISRAEL SENDS MEDICAL AID, EQUIPMENT TO KENYAN HOSPITAL"
BBC International Monitoring Reports - February 25, 2008
Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by means of MASHAV, the Israel Centre for International Cooperation, sent a plane load of aid to Kenya that included three tons of medications and medical equipment for Kenyan hospitals. The Israeli embassy in Nairobi will transfer the equipment to two hospitals in Nairobi and one in the western Kenyan city of Kisumu. Eight hundred kilograms of ICU equipment was contributed by the International Distribution Programme of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

"New phase of Hillel activity in the FSU"
Washington Jewish Week - February 14, 2008
There were few yarmulkes or other obvious signs of Jewish observance among the 200 young Jews from more than 20 Russian and Ukrainian cities who attended the four-day conference and training session, or its sister conference taking place concurrently in Kiev. Also, many of the participants were in their mid- to late 20s, typical in a region where Hillel is not an on-campus organization, but a city-centered Jewish youth club that draws teenagers as well as young married couples. The dual conferences came nine months into Hillel's new partnership in the former Soviet Union with the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

"Stuffed animals can relieve trauma in children exposed to war and terror TAU study says"
The Jerusalem Post - January 24, 2008
…Soft sad-faced huggable stuffed animals in the form of dogs have been distributed to over 140 young children in communities within reach of Hamas rockets from Gaza and Hizbullah missiles in the North to help the youngsters cope with trauma. The Hibuki dolls (called Huggy Puppy in English) were provided by the Ashalim-Joint Distribution Committee as part of a study by Prof. Avi Sadeh of Tel Aviv University on half of a group of 74 five-year-olds to see whether they helped the children overcome their fears.