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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

JDC American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Participants hold up signs at the March for Israel rally organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on November 14, 2023, on the National Mall in Washington. (Daryl Perry)
December 7, 2024, 9:50 am
Huge post-October 7 giving boom from overseas brings hope to battered frontlines
With no shortage of organizations trying to help, big philanthropic bodies say they’re working in coordination, each filling a different role, while letting local communities lead
By Sue Surkes
Panelists speak at the Summit of European Jewish Leaders in Berlin on March 26, 2023. (Courtesy of the JDC via JTA)
March 29, 2023, 9:00 pm
Israeli tensions spill over into Berlin at summit of European Jewish leaders
As Jews with strong ties to Israel, communities on the continent express frustration with its eroding democratic values and policies that affect them even in their own countries
By David I. Klein and Toby Axelrod
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
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 15, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 15, 2023, 2:45 pm
Ben Gvir said to nix campaign against Arab crime because it’s run by ‘leftist’ JDC
National security minister reportedly makes remarks at meeting on slashing funding for project run by American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
By ToI Staff
An elderly Jewish man in the Dnipro region of Ukraine stands before a delivery of firewood made by JDC as part of an effort to support Ukrainian Jews in advance of a punishing winter. (Courtesy of the JDC via JTA)
November 11, 2022, 4:48 am
As winter approaches, Jewish groups fundraise to ensure Ukrainians able to stay warm
Chabad raising funds to buy hundreds of generators; JFNA announces another $7 million infusion for Ukraine effort; Joint Distribution Committee raising money for blankets
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A woman takes out an aid package from an electric car owned by the Jewish Federations of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of Ukraine/ via JTA)
August 13, 2022, 9:37 am
In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars as fuel crisis hinders aid delivery
As costs of food, medicine and gasoline rise along with the number of recipients who require them, humanitarian groups maximize efficiency ahead of what they see as a long haul
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ukrainian refugee children gather outside the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
July 30, 2022, 11:16 am
In Warsaw, Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp
Volunteers draw on Jewish experiences with suffering to aid refugee children traumatized by war and help them prepare for a new school year in Poland
By Vanessa Gera
Elizaveta Sherstuk, director of a Ukrainian Jewish organization in the town of Sumy, who is one of 12 people chosen to light torches to mark the start of Independence Day, in an undated photograph. (Jewish Distribution Committee)
May 4, 2022, 4:04 pm
She helped get hundreds to safety in Ukraine; now she lights a torch in Jerusalem
Elizaveta Sherstuk was chosen to represent the Diaspora at Israel’s main Independence Day ceremony. ‘This is the acknowledgment of the importance of what we do’
By Judah Ari Gross
Two of 100 Holocaust survivors, Eva Evans (left) and Judith Bihaly (right) who participated in a video marking Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 2022. (Greg Schneider/AP)
April 28, 2022, 8:49 am
Holocaust survivors issue Remembrance Day message against dangers of unchecked hate
Claims Conference initiative brings together 100 survivors to warn of need to remember Nazi atrocities amid rising antisemitism
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Anna, with Vadik, 6, and Dasha, 3, at the Israeli Consulate in Chisinau, Moldova, March 17, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
March 21, 2022, 8:21 pm
From chaos to cooperation: Moldova learns to cope with Ukrainian refugees
‘We’ve become crisis experts in 3 weeks,’ says head of Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, one of a dizzying number of groups trying to care for those fleeing the war
By Sue Surkes
Laiza Vedeneva at the JDC court with her grandmother. (Marcel Gascón Barberá/ JTA)
March 17, 2022, 11:42 pm
‘Jewish soup’ is keeping soldiers and refugees warm at the Romanian-Ukrainian border
A tent operated by the JDC serving bean-and-vegetable borscht is a welcome sight for those fleeing the war, and the aid from local and foreign volunteers doesn’t stop there
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Anna and Ludmila in Kyiv, March 2022. (Courtesy, Joint Distribution Committee)
March 10, 2022, 10:35 pm
‘I can stay alive, brighter days will come,’ says Holocaust survivor stuck in Kyiv
With around half of capital’s residents said to have fled, housebound Ludmila, 85, lauds continuing devotion of carer Anna, who says; ‘We hug when we’re very scared’
By Sue Surkes
A Christian worshiper prays in front of a memorial to fallen soldiers at the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 6, 2022. The memorial is dedicated to Ukrainian soldiers who died after 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
March 8, 2022, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 8 – From Lviv: Ukrainian military chaplains & other heroes
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman in Ukraine explains hot-button issues, evacuation corridors and no-fly zones; environment reporter Sue Surkes brings us good news for a change
By ToI Staff
JDC's new CEO Ariel Zwang visits with participants of Hanoch Digital, a JDC program that helps Israeli Haredim embrace technology to confidently enter the job market. (courtesy)
July 30, 2021, 2:00 pm
Podcast: New JDC CEO Ariel Zwang on being a continual breaker of glass ceilings
The first female head of the century-plus-old organization is no stranger to going where few women have gone before. Now she calls on other groups to open up their boardrooms, too
By ToI Staff
A man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India, May 3, 2021. (Ishant Chauhan/AP)
May 4, 2021, 12:24 am
Israel to fly planeloads of medical aid to virus-wracked India
Shipments will include oxygen generators, ventilators; non-government organizations join effort; deliveries to arrive this week
By ToI Staff
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