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Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, October 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
November 3, 2025, 1:34 am
Jewish and Israeli groups rush to provide aid to hurricane-ravaged Jamaica
Chabad, Israid and others working to get clean water and supplies to locals after Hurricane Melissa pummels island with 360 Jewish residents
By Zev Stub
Photographers watch Jewish people and supporters blow shofars and whistles in London, March 10, 2024 to show solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza by terror groups since October 7.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
July 22, 2024, 10:23 am
Israel a much higher priority for European Jewish leaders after Oct. 7, survey shows
Supporting the Jewish state rose from 14th to 5th in importance in a poll of hundreds of community heads from 32 countries
By Canaan Lidor
Batsheva Dahan shows the knife she keeps in her mobility scooter in case she encounters terrorists in Ofakim on October 11, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 14, 2023, 4:11 pm
In Sderot and Ofakim, Israelis put aside traumas to take care of neighbors in need
A grassroots effort is underway to help those who chose to stay despite the murderous terrorist incursion and relentless rocket fire
By Canaan Lidor
Refugees from Ukraine arrive in Budapest, Hungary on in March 2022. The photo is part of the 'Am I My Brother's Keeper' exhibition curated by Yitzhak Mais. (courtesy)
July 4, 2023, 8:45 pm
New exhibition lifts Jewish rescue efforts in Ukraine out of the war’s shadow
The exhibit is the first attempt at an overview of a rare moment of empowerment amid a tragedy
By Canaan Lidor
Tatiana Kovler, a Jewish social worker, is one of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians who had to flee their homes following the rupture of a dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine on June 6, 2023. (Courtesy of Tatiana Kovler)
June 13, 2023, 12:52 am
As Kherson floods, one evacuee plans return to aid city’s hardy Jewish holdouts
Tatiana Kovler, a social worker with the JDC who fled rising waters, is in constant contact with clients who have remained in the city despite intense bombings and now flooding
By Canaan Lidor
Reuven Shvartsman looks out a window of his apartment building in Odesa, Ukraine, in February 2023. (Courtesy of IFCJ)
June 10, 2023, 9:46 am
Scarred and hardened by the Holocaust, survivors relive it in war-torn Ukraine
Some draw on their childhood experiences to keep their fears in check, wile others are transported back to a sense of helplessness
By Canaan Lidor
An employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, right, hands out an aid package to a Jewish woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. (Courtesy of JDC)
March 18, 2023, 2:32 am
Jewish communal world baffled after Ben Gvir targets mainstream US aid group JDC
National security minister has vowed to shut down Joint Distribution Committee program tackling crime in Arab communities, branding the century-old, apolitical group ‘leftist’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Illustrative: Israeli doctors from LeMa'anam - For Their Sake: Physicians for Holocaust Survivors - give medical assistance to a Jewish Ukrainian who fled a war zone in Ukraine, at an emergency shelter in Chisinau, Moldova, March 13, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)
July 13, 2022, 7:01 pm
Survey hails Jewish, Israeli aid groups’ Ukraine war response
Report by the OLAM umbrella group finds organizations worked well together during the crisis; interviewees express discomfort at prioritizing Jews, found amateurs got in the way
By Judah Ari Gross
A Hesed social worker hugs a client in Odesa on Monday, February 28, 2022. (JDC)
March 2, 2022, 6:50 am
Risking life and limb, Hesed network continues caring for Ukraine’s neediest Jews
Staff of JDC group work on laptops from home to provide services, and some social workers move in with homebound Jews to ensure continued care, even as fighting rages around them
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of vulnerable elderly people assisted by JDC in Kharkov, Ukraine. (JDC)
March 28, 2018, 8:31 pm
Groups provide Passover food for Jews in former Soviet Union
JDC to distribute 20 tons of matzah to elderly Jews in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia as well as India, Egypt
By JTA
Activists carry placards and ballons during a feminist march in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev to mark International Women's Day on March 8, 2018. (AFP/Sergei SUPINSKY)
March 9, 2018, 4:20 am
Eastern Europe’s Jews are being led by women, partially thanks to communism
USSR’s feminist agenda still reverberates in many Eastern Bloc countries, the only places in Europe where national Jewish communities are headed by females
By Cnaan Liphshiz
CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer with campers at the Szarvas International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary, a project of JDC and Ronald Lauder. (courtesy)
February 28, 2018, 3:01 am
New JDC head brings a business approach to aiding needy Jews
After a year at the helm of the 103-year-old American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, David M. Schizer lays out his pragmatic plan to continue its eternal mission
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A woodworking class in the trade school established and funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at a Cyprus detention camp in 1947. (Courtesy JDC Archives via JTA)
February 14, 2018, 9:41 pm
JDC dedicates home for century of historical records
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee archives span from 1914 to present and include over 3 miles of documents, 100,000 photographs and 6,000 books
By JTA
Illustrative photo of matza. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
April 7, 2017, 10:30 pm
JDC, partners deliver 10 tons of matzah in former Soviet Union
Initiative is part of an annual partnership between Jewish organization and other groups assisting Jews in Russia, neighboring countries
By JTA
Asaf Ventura posing with his floating gym at an Israeli army rehabilitation center in Haifa, June 2015. (Courtesy Asaf Ventura via JTA)
February 19, 2017, 6:01 am
At a prestigious Jerusalem art school, disabled students find value in difference
The famed Bezalel Academy sees the experiences of wounded veterans and others as boon to creativity
By Andrew Tobin
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