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JDC American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein exiting the first aliyah flight organized by the the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, December 2014. (Courtesy of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
February 6, 2019, 8:00 pm
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, dies at 67
Eckstein passes away from sudden heart failure; his IFCJ has raised $1.4 billion in donations for Israel, mostly from evangelical Christians
By TOI staff
Residents inspect a house damaged by a tsunami, in Carita, Indonesia, December 23, 2018 (AP Photo)
December 25, 2018, 6:02 pm
Jewish groups offer aid after hundreds killed in Indonesian tsunami
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and IsraAID have teams in island country following natural disaster that has killed more than 400
By Marcy Oster
A local farmer harvests hot peppers on a Tikkun Olam Ventures pilot site in Butajira, southern Ethiopia, in June 2018. (Courtesy JDC)
October 11, 2018, 5:13 pm
New fund utilizes Israeli tech to help small farmers in Africa
JDC program will give thousands of agriculturists access to low-interest loans in bid to improve their crop yields, ensure their products command a fair market price
By Melanie Lidman
Arnold Zeligman, left, teaching Hebrew to Bella Regimov, wearing head cover, and other students at The Jewish House in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 18, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 19, 2018, 2:41 am
Sale of Azerbaijan’s Jewish center is a painful blow to a dwindling community
As a shrinking population forces the JDC to consolidate resources, the seniors who use the facility ask if it’s worth the savings to deprive a cohort that will soon be gone anyway
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Young people dance in the rain at the Judafest street festival in Budapest, June 10, 2018.(Marton Monus/ Balint House JCC)
June 11, 2018, 4:59 pm
Thousands in Budapest flock to Jewish street fair in sign of community’s revival
In scene uniting Jews of all denominations, some 10,000 brave thunderstorm to throng Hungarian capital’s touristic Kazinczy street for annual Judafest
By Yaakov Schwartz
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
Head of the volunteer department, Alla Shakhova, left, with volunteer Adrianna Golubka, right, at the Halom Jewish Community Center in Kiev, Ukraine, September 8, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
November 3, 2017, 5:56 am
Kiev’s American-style JCC gives low-income Jews the millionaire treatment
From the subsidized daycare to the lobby WiFi, the Halom center provides luxuries usually reserved for the wealthy in one of the former Soviet Union’s poorest countries
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Among those attending the recent Junction conference in Berlin were, from left, Ani G. from Austria/Bulgaria; Joey L. from the United Kingdom; Tea T. from Georgia; and Daniel M. from Italy. (Bokeh Graphik/JDC/via JTA)
June 11, 2017, 3:29 am
Despite rising anti-Semitism, young European Jews aren’t ruled by fear
Reflecting a shifting approach to Jewish continuity, rather than fixating on the Holocaust and Israel, Generation 3.0 is all about carpe diem
By Toby Axelrod
Sri Lankan villagers cross a landslide site as military rescue workers and villagers search for survivors in Athweltota village in Kalutara on May 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI)
June 2, 2017, 10:24 am
US Jews providing emergency aid to storm-struck Sri Lanka
JDC pairs with Buddhist group to respond to catastrophic floods and mudslides that killed over 200
By JTA
Olga Levus started a single mothers' group which eventually became the Jewish Family Service in Moldova. (Courtesy of JDC/via JTA)
March 13, 2017, 4:04 am
How a single mom revolutionized Moldova’s Jewish community
To survive with her three sons, a nearly destitute Olga Levus formed a small support group, which eventually evolved into the JDCs local Jewish Family Service
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. (Courtesy AJM)
February 18, 2017, 7:01 pm
For the past 150 years, Alaskan Jews have blazed trails in the last frontier
With a spotlight on the dramatic rescue of 40,000 Yemenite Jews by Alaska Airlines, the Alaska Jewish museum marks the anniversary of ‘Seward’s Folly’
By Rich Tenorio
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)
December 3, 2016, 9:05 pm
PM, Bennett meet in last-minute bid to reach outpost bill compromise
Netanyahu cabinet in standoff ahead of Monday vote on legislation that would retroactively validate illegal West Bank settlements
By TOI staff
Homes destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Matthew are seen in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on October 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Nicolas GARCIA)
October 10, 2016, 9:14 pm
In Hurricane Matthew aftermath, Jewish groups lend a hand
American Jewish Joint Distribution and World Jewish Relief are among groups helping victims in the United States and the Caribbean
By JTA
Haitian people cross the river La Digue in Petit Goave, where a bridge collapsed during the rains from Hurricane Matthew, southwest of Port-au-Prince, October 6, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMAL)
October 6, 2016, 7:49 pm
JDC sends aid to hurricane-stricken Haiti
The Jewish humanitarian group is providing medical aid and serving the basic needs of those affected by the storm
By JTA
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in Ukraine (courtesy)
September 27, 2016, 7:46 pm
Charity to give $52 million for Jews in former Soviet Union
Christian-Jewish group pledges food and medical aid, much of it for elderly and impoverished Holocaust survivors
By JTA
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