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Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, welcomes hundreds to the Jewish Rally for Refugees in Battery Park, New York, on February 12, 2017. (Courtesy HIAS)
Interview
The Jewish organization on the frontlines against Trump’s war on refugees
By Eric Cortellessa
The Pittsburgh synagogue attack forced HIAS to evolve, says CEO Mark Hetfield. But in an era that saw the organization sue its biggest patron, the US government, that’s nothing new
Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, welcomes hundreds to the Jewish Rally for Refugees in Battery Park, New York, on February 12, 2017. (Courtesy HIAS)
February 21, 2019, 3:57 am
The Jewish organization on the frontlines against Trump’s war on refugees
The Pittsburgh synagogue attack forced HIAS to evolve, says CEO Mark Hetfield. But in an era that saw the organization sue its biggest patron, the US government, that’s nothing new
By Eric Cortellessa
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota speaks at a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol in Washington, on February 7, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 2:18 am
Ilhan Omar apologizes to Jewish groups for hurt caused by AIPAC tweet
In a closed call with several organizations, the Minnesota Congresswoman vows to continue the dialogue and build a better relationship with the Jewish community
By JTA and TOI staff
Freshman Sen. Anna Kaplan, Democrat, Mineola, is introduced during opening day of the legislative session in Albany, NY on January 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
February 1, 2019, 10:25 pm
Once a refugee from Iran, a Jewish state senator ascends in New York politics
Anna Kaplan escaped Tehran to the US in 1979, while her parents fled to Israel. Now she’s the first Persian-American in the New York State Legislature
By Eric Cortellessa
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA)
January 9, 2019, 1:42 am
Jewish umbrella group reprimands ZOA for insulting other members
Confidential warning comes following complaints from ADL, NCJW and HIAS, which slam weak response
By JTA
In this photo from January 29, 2017 US Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts speaks to people gathered at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. (Ryan McBride/AFP)
January 2, 2019, 7:26 pm
Elizabeth Warren to give her salary to HIAS during US government shutdown
Massachusetts senator says she’ll donate to Jewish immigration aid group amid row between Democrats and Republicans over border wall funding
By Ron Kampeas
Nadia Batool Bokhari, a Pakistani journalist forced to seek refuge in the United States because of her job. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2018, 2:34 am
Female Muslim journalist persecuted in Pakistan reboots life in the US with HIAS
The onetime Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society applies humanitarian Jewish values to ‘strangers’ as a powerful mix of climate change and conflict drive migration to new heights
By Cathryn J. Prince
Migrants in Mexico stand amid tear gas launched by US agents at the border with the US, right of fence, after a group of migrants pushed past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 25, 2018 (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
November 27, 2018, 5:20 am
Is it fair that Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant caravan to Jews fleeing Nazis?
When asked for comment, US Holocaust Memorial Museum points to earlier statement that it is not out of place to liken flight of Jews in the 1930s to subsequent refugee crises
By Ron Kampeas
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on October 31, 2018. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
November 1, 2018, 2:15 am
Spreading conspiracy theory, Trump points finger at Soros over migrant caravan
Day after visiting synagogue where gunman angry over Jewish support for migrants killed 11, president appears to back unproven claim that Jewish billionaire behind group
By TOI staff and Agencies
A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)
October 30, 2018, 5:06 pm
Synagogue shooter’s obsession with HIAS mixed hatred of Jews, migrants
Far-right conspiracy theorists single out federal-funded Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, founded over 100 years ago, as seeking to destroy the ‘white race’ through immigration
By Michael Hill
Melanie Nezer speaking at a rally in Washington, DC in June 2017. (Courtesy)
October 28, 2018, 11:21 pm
‘Shock and surprise’ at shooter’s hatred of HIAS, says refugee organization’s VP
According to Melanie Nezer, the culture of anti-Semitism in America is growing even as the 137-year-old Jewish organization works to ‘Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee’
By Cathryn J. Prince
Mourners take a moment at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6 at the Tree Of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)
October 28, 2018, 10:26 pm
Week before synagogue massacre, HIAS led Jewish groups in ‘Refugee Shabbat’
Gunman who murdered 11 in Pittsburgh decried HIAS Shabbat program; accused 137-year-old Jewish immigrant resettlement organization of bringing ‘invaders to kill our people’
By Caleb Galaraga
People embrace along the street in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh where a shooter opened fire during services at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday, October 27, 2018. (AP/Keith Srakocic)
October 28, 2018, 12:59 am
Refugee aid group mentioned by Pittsburgh shooter urges national healing
‘This loss is our loss,’ says HIAS after at least 11 killed at Tree of Life synagogue
By JTA and TOI staff
Recently arrived migrant families speak with volunteers at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)
August 23, 2018, 3:41 am
US Jewish groups visit ‘heartbreaking’ border detention centers
Meeting unaccompanied migrant children, US and Mexican officials, Jewish leaders vow to push for ‘humane and compassionate immigration policies’
By Josefin Dolsten
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
June 26, 2018, 8:40 pm
Jewish groups decry Supreme Court upholding of Trump travel ban
Leading immigrant rights organization HIAS expresses ‘disappointment’; Reform Jewish leader calls on Congress to ‘push back against offensive and dangerous policy’
By JTA and TOI staff
A boy from Honduras is shown being taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas, June 12, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images)
June 20, 2018, 5:13 am
Jewish activists are helping families separated at the US border
Several community groups actively aiding children detained under new government policy dictating every illegal migrant will be prosecuted
By Ben Sales
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