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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

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Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins stitches the first Blue Eagle label into a dress during a ceremony marking the inauguration of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) code label for women's dresses in New York City, January 22, 1934. (AP Photo)
May 19, 2025, 4:37 am
How trailblazing US labor secretary Frances Perkins quietly lobbied for Holocaust refugees
While the labor activist is famous for being the first female Cabinet member, on the 60th anniversary of her death, a new book explores her overlooked efforts to help Jews fleeing the Nazis
By Rich Tenorio
Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
May 17, 2025, 11:13 am
Afrikaner resettled by US Jewish group as a refugee denies accusations of antisemitism
Charl Kleinhaus says posts taken out of context as US media scrutinizes members of white South African minority Trump admitted after accusing Pretoria of genocide against them
By ToI Staff
Organizers and farmers co-design a solar field in western Uganda as part of a Gigawatt Global project, Kyenjojo District, Uganda, April 13, 2024. (Jeje Canutum)
March 11, 2025, 3:46 pm
Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program
After the US president orders America’s largest aid body gutted, repercussions are felt around the world as programs benefiting people from Africa to Gaza have their funding frozen
By Sue Surkes
An Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue in the city of Yazd, 420 miles south of capital Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 7, 2025, 9:04 pm
Trump’s refugee ban is keeping 700 persecuted Iranian Jews out of the US
The US president has signed an order indefinitely halting the admission of refugees – including applicants for a special program for members of religious minority groups in Iran
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: Activists hold a banner during a pro-refugee demonstration organized by HIAS outside the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 14, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images via JTA)
February 11, 2025, 11:18 am
Jewish group, church organizations sue Trump administration over refugee freeze
HIAS says US president exceeded his authority in executive order suspending all refugee admissions, including some 1,660 Afghans already cleared to resettle
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Jews For Racial and Economic Justice rallies with coalition partners at New York's City Hall to demand New York remain a 'sanctuary city' in light of US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, January 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFREJ via JTA)
February 10, 2025, 1:57 am
US Jews have long advocated on behalf of immigrants. Is that changing under Trump 2.0?
As Jewish immigrant-rights groups dust off their playbooks from 2016, they face a communal reorientation spurred by Oct. 7 and, some say, a general sense of liberal exhaustion
By Andrew Lapin
Migrants walk along the Huixtla highway in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, October 22, 2024, hoping to reach the country's northern border and ultimately the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
October 24, 2024, 9:07 am
As US election nears, Jewish groups decry ‘xenophobia, fear and lies’ about immigrants
Thinly-veiled criticism of Trump, signed by Reform and Conservative rabbinic associations and 500 clergy, urges candidates to ‘reject the impulse to seal our borders’
By Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Cary Kozberg, right, sits with Temple Sholom President Laurie Leventhal inside the synagogue's Springfield, Ohio, sanctuary in 2016. (Courtesy Dayton Jewish Observer/via JTA)
September 23, 2024, 11:36 pm
Springfield, Ohio, rabbi will meet local Haitian leaders after disparaging community
Cary Kozberg, whose remarks come after Trump alleged migrants were eating their pets, says he ‘misspoke’ and has ‘modified’ his opinions; will remain employed with his congregation
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: A family of people evacuated from Afghanistan is led through the arrival terminal at the Dulles International Airport to board a bus that will take them to a refugee processing center, in Dulles, Virginia, August 25, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
July 12, 2024, 10:00 pm
‘A manifesto on replacement theory’: GOP mass deportation plan alarms Jewish groups
Several organizations say policy appears steeped in theory which has antisemitic overtones, vow to challenge it: ‘We understand precisely where this hate and extremism can lead’
By Ron Kampeas
Police tape surrounds an assault rifle magazine in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Oct. 18 2018. (U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania Evidence Photo via JTA)
July 12, 2023, 5:07 pm
Is antisemitism delusional? Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s fate hinges on answer
Defense lawyers, hoping to avoid death sentence for gunman Robert Bowers, argue his antisemitic beliefs were a manifestation of mental illness; expert witness rejects notion
By Ron Kampeas
People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu, May 24, 2022. Congolese authorities have accused Rwandan forces of supporting armed groups in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where dozens of such groups are active. Rwanda has described allegations of supporting rebels in Congo as baseless. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
September 12, 2022, 10:09 am
Court lifts protection for Congolese refugees, but slams Shaked’s ‘flawed’ decision
Community had been protected for 20 years; state pledges to check each case before deportation, won’t repatriate minors and their families to ‘volatile’ nation
By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit
Afghan evacuee Hadiya and her father Mirwais after being resettled in 2021 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania through a joint initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Shapiro Foundation. (Courtesy)
August 30, 2022, 2:31 pm
How Jewish communities across the US helped resettle 1,900 Afghan evacuees this year
On the first anniversary of the end of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan as Taliban regained power, evacuees and Jewish volunteers reflect on the struggles of starting over
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A refugee fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine walks with children holding toys after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing in Romania, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
March 24, 2022, 11:56 pm
US Jewish groups hail Biden decision to take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees
Mainstream, liberal groups press for further details to ensure that those coming in are given full protections, lament lack of similar treatment for other refugees
By Jacob Magid
In this March 4, 2018, file photo, MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
March 24, 2022, 3:39 pm
MacKenzie Scott donates $10 million to HIAS for Ukrainian refugee aid
Jewish relief group says some of the billionaire philanthropist’s donation will go to help Ukrainian Jews move to Western Europe; Prince Harry, Meghan Markle give undisclosed sum
By Asaf Shalev
Refugees fleeing war in neighboring Ukraine queue at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
March 16, 2022, 10:17 am
28 major US Jewish groups call on Biden to accept Ukraine refugees
Organizations from across political spectrum urge expediting family reunification requests, noting precedent set by Clinton administration during Yugoslav civil war
By Ron Kampeas
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