poverty

Elderly Jews attending the Rosh Hashanah dinner at Hesed Triaspol, Transnistria, in 2018. (Courtesy of JDC)

September 28, 2019, 3:57 pm

In poor European countries, gefilte fish isn’t just a symbol — it’s sustenance

As the Jewish New Year arrives, organizations are mobilizing to provide elderly members of Jewish communities with a heartening holiday meal

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Participants on the British chief rabbi's Ben Azzai program play with Indian orphaned boys during a trip to Kolkata in December 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

September 11, 2019, 9:06 pm

In India, young British Jews struggle to avoid ‘poorism,’ learn how to help

UK chief rabbi tries to create ‘Jewish foreign policy’ with Ben Azzai program, which sends Jewish university students around the world to learn about poverty

By Judah Ari Gross

A Lasova restaurant soup kitchen employee serves bread to the needy in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 8, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

September 11, 2019, 10:04 am

Israeli economic growth overshadows struggles of working poor

According to the National Insurance Institute, almost 1.8 million people live below poverty line

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Garbage piled up on the side of the street in Jerusalem's Wadi Joz neighborhood on September 23, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

June 2, 2019, 7:23 pm

Jerusalem is security deficient, poor, and dirty, state comptroller finds

Audit shows authorities failing to properly manage crossings from West Bank; security barrier still breached; poverty rates among children higher than national average

By Stuart Winer

Furloughed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and others leave the Barclays Center with bags of food as the Food Bank For NYC holds food distribution for federal workers impacted by the government shutdown in Brooklyn, New York January 22, 2019. ( TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

January 25, 2019, 3:48 am

Trump aides blasted as out of touch for dismissing shutdown suffering

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, worth some $700 million, sparks anger after saying he does not understand why furloughed federal workers are not just taking out loans

By Jonathan Lemire

A view of the Northern Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth, on January 26, 2016 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

January 2, 2019, 9:38 pm

New ‘centrist’ Arab party registers ahead of elections

Platform includes resolving housing crisis in Arab Israeli towns and bridging between Israelis and Palestinians

By Adam Rasgon

The Hiriya Landfill Restoration Project, located southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel. Food waste dumped into landfill is doubly negative for the environment, because of the environmental costs of producing food. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

October 23, 2018, 11:51 pm

Knesset passes law protecting restaurants that donate their excess food

In effort to reduce food waste, Israel become fifth country to introduce laws absolving donors of legal liability for damages caused by donated goods

By Michael Bachner

A construction team from Tenufa Bakehila - Building Hope, a nonprofit organization founded to help low-income families fix and renovate their homes (Courtesy Jordan Polevoy)

October 10, 2018, 10:10 am

With extreme makeovers, nonprofit rebuilds families through their homes

Building Hope, an organization that combines house renovation with social services, has fixed 4,400 homes of needy Israelis, and wants to expand its activities

By Michael Harel

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, a group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

July 13, 2018, 7:49 am

By allowing towns to segregate, Israel may cross a different kind of red line

The wounds of America’s redlining policy, which led to segregated housing, still fester 50 years after it was rescinded. Will the nation-state bill put Israel on the same path?

By Joshua Davidovich

June 29, 2018, 7:03 pm

Arik Ascherman

Sometimes, it really isn’t complicated

‘Don’t exploit the poor’ means making sure a single mother can pay rent, and that farmers’ fields are protected

Jordanians buy second-hand shoes in an open air market in central Amman on June 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

June 9, 2018, 7:22 pm

After protests, Jordan’s poor have little hope of change

Despite shelving of tax hike in wake of demonstrations, hard-hit residents of Amman fear nothing will improve

By Marisol Rifai

A picture taken on November 1, 2017, shows a general view of buildings in downtown Gaza City and the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in the background (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

May 20, 2018, 12:50 pm

PA employee in Gaza sets himself on fire after salary withheld

22-year-old father of two reported to curse government as he burns himself in the street, is moderately injured

By TOI staff

View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 1, 2018, 8:23 pm

IMF says Israeli economy robust but social gaps threaten long-term stability

International body says Israel saw strong growth and low unemployment in 2017 but measures must be taken to increase productivity, improve infrastructure, and cut poverty

By Sue Surkes

In this April 4, 2018 photo, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, applauds as US Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers a question during a town hall meeting examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

April 6, 2018, 6:53 pm

Bernie Sanders struggles with new path to black voters

Weighing 2020 run, Sanders is still searching for the right way to attract more of the voters who denied him the nomination last time

By Bill Barrow

A construction site for new apartment buildings in Beit Shemesh photographed on February 21, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

March 11, 2018, 3:35 pm

OECD warns Israel’s housing bubble could pop, predicts continued economic growth

Survey urges government to increase spending on infrastructure, education to alleviate poverty of ultra-Orthodox and Israeli Arabs

By Simona Weinglass