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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 587

Mark Hetfield

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
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
African migrants clash with Israeli soldiers after they left Holot detention center in southern Israel and walked towards the Border with Egypt near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nitzana, Friday, June, 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
January 16, 2018, 6:56 am
US Jewish groups to Netanyahu: Deporting Africans ‘betrays Jewish values’
ADL, HIAS express ‘grave concerns’ over new plan that would see migrants and asylum seekers flown to unnamed third countries against their will
By Eric Cortellessa
Jonathan Greenblatt. (CC BY-SA PopTech, Flickr)
February 22, 2017, 3:33 am
US Jewish organizations decry new immigration rules as ‘cruel,’ ‘dangerous’
Trump administration enforcement guidelines could mean deportation for millions who entered US illegally, including children
By ToI Staff and AP
Fadi Kassar hugs his young daughters for the first time in over 2 years after his family was reunited at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, February 2, 2017. (Bill Swersey/HIAS)
February 6, 2017, 11:01 pm
Jewish group helps reunite Syrian family kept apart by Trump ban
Refugee agency HIAS vows to work tirelessly to ensure Kassar family not the last refugees allowed entry into US
By JTA and ToI Staff
A young girl in Ecuador holding hands with representatives of HIAS, right, and the refugee agency of the United Nations. (photo credit: Courtesy HIAS/JTA)
July 22, 2013, 6:00 am
HIAS focusing on non-Jews: What would Emma Lazarus say?
Young, Jewish, and feeling ‘myopic’ with Jewish communal work? HIAS’s quest for relevance — and volunteers — has it reaching out to global tired and poor
By Ron Kampeas
Iranian Jews eligible to immigrate to the US because of the Lautenberg Amendment arrive at Los Angeles International Airport in 2009. (Courtesy of HIAS via JTA)
March 20, 2013, 12:28 am
Lifeline for US law that aided Soviet, now Iranian Jews
Jewish groups are among those advocating a stronger status for effort to shelter persecuted religious minorities
By Ron Kampeas
January 31, 2013, 4:02 am
Jewish groups welcome immigration reform proposals
Tradition ‘commands us to welcome the stranger,’ says Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism leader Barbara Weinstein
A volunteer teaches English on behalf of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, one of dozens of Jewish organizations that may be severely harmed if budget negotiations remain at an impasse in Congress. (Steve Latimer for HIAS via JTA)
January 17, 2013, 4:21 am
US Jewish charities brace for congressional budget deadline
Facing severe cuts, groups urge politicians to reach a deal on government spending
By Gil Shefler
The Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 25, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 26, 2012, 5:20 pm
Give me your tired, your poor — but not from Mexico, please
Jewish groups see progress in a new Supreme Court immigration ruling, but have concerns about potential for racial profiling
By JTA
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