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Illustrative image of an elderly person with a cane. (oneinchpunch/ iStock by Getty Images)
April 1, 2020, 11:19 pm
COVID-19 is confining some of most vulnerable seniors indoors — at what cost?
CEO of JDC-Eshel, experts in the elderly population, sets out measures to protect susceptible population during and after the pandemic
By Sue Surkes
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
Eliran Douenias, an Israeli fellow with the Joint Distribution Committee based in Kathmandu, joins village members to plant rice. (Eliran Douenias/JDC)
August 27, 2015, 8:50 am
In Nepal, a long road toward recovery
Israeli organizations are providing emotional and physical support to victims four months after deadly earthquake
By Melanie Lidman
Masha Shumatskaya fled Donetsk, Ukraine, in June 2014. (photo credit: JTA/Uriel Heilman)
April 2, 2015, 4:58 am
Dodging bombs, Ukrainian Jewish refugee flees hometown
With thousands of other Jews, Masha Shumatskaya, 23, leaves war-torn Donetsk behind; welfare groups struggle to help the displaced and impoverished
By Uriel Heilman
A view of the eastern Ukraine city of Kramatorsk as it is being shelled by pro-Russian forces on February 10, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
February 10, 2015, 10:47 pm
Rockets hit Jewish welfare center in Ukraine
No casualties reported as dud missiles slam into building housing Jewish organization in country’s east
By JTA and ToI Staff
Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)
November 14, 2014, 3:31 pm
Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future
Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning — and community building
By Yifa Yaakov
Nela Hasic, pictured here with a Race for the Cure poster, returned from Israel to her native Sarajevo and is leading the fight for breast cancer awareness there. (photo credit: Courtesy of JDC)
October 15, 2013, 6:58 pm
Where talking about breast cancer is still taboo
Helping Bosnian women race for the cure is a marathon journey for Jewish ex-Israeli Nela Hasic
By Renee Ghert-Zand
David Finti (photo credit: David Finti's Facebook page)
From the WebAugust 15, 2013, 5:58 pm
Injured Romanian Jew brought to Israel for treatment
A 19-year-old man, electrocuted boarding a tram, airlifted by Jewish Agency to Hadassah Hospital, Israel Hayom reports
Yityish Titi Aynaw in Ethiopia this week (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)
June 8, 2013, 10:02 pm
For Ethiopia-born Miss Israel, an emotional return
Yityish Titi Aynaw goes back to her country of birth, to see the house where she grew up and her mother died, and to accompany extended family on aliyah to Israel
By ToI Staff
The 1965 opening of the Israel Museum, Teddy Kollek seated fifth from right (Courtesy Israel Museum)
July 11, 2012, 10:27 am
The house that Teddy built
A touching documentary immortalizes the people who helped establish the Israel Museum
By Jessica Steinberg
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