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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 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
Money traders watch computer screens with the day's exchange rate between yen and the US dollar at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo, November 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
January 22, 2018, 4:18 am
Richest one percent made 82% of wealth created last year — report
Ahead of World Economic Forum in Davod, Oxfam findings show poorest half of the world received none of 2017's financial bounty
By AFP
People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
December 6, 2017, 2:23 pm
1.8 million Israelis, 842,000 of them children, under poverty line — report
In Jerusalem, over half of children impoverished, annual study says; country sees improvements, but situation still 'grave' by OECD standards
By Marissa Newman
Jaffa Road, Jerusalem (Sarah Tuttle-Singer)
December 5, 2017, 3:56 pm
A daughter of Israel alone on Jaffa Road
A few shekels, the occasional meal -- we need to do a lot more for those who need our help
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Children entering the Halom Jewish Community Center in Kiev, Ukraine, September 8, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
November 20, 2017, 10:48 pm
Ukrainian Jews are in crisis
My organization does all it can to help those in thrall to extreme poverty, neglect, and abuse, but it's not enough
By Irina Chernobryvets
Ultra-Orthodox Jews read lamentations outside one of the entrances to the Temple Mount, during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, on August 14, 2016, in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)
September 26, 2017, 4:31 pm
Bid to boost employment of ultra-Orthodox men is stalling, report says
Finance Ministry says the increase in employment of Haredi men is slow and will not meet government targets
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative photo of Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 15, 2017, 5:24 pm
UNICEF child welfare report finds Israel among worst in developed world
One in three children is considered poor in the Jewish state, says UN agency
By Stuart Winer
Members of Egypt's Social Solidarity Ministry 'Children Without Shelter' program train homeless children in first aid in Cairo's low-income district of Sayeda Zeinab, May 11, 2017. (AFP/KHALED )
May 30, 2017, 8:18 am
Egypt’s generation homeless: Aid workers struggle to help street kids
Officials estimate 16,000 children are without shelter, but lack of documentation stalls efforts
By Mona Salem
Detail of "Ruth and Boaz," 1628, by Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert (PD via Wikimedia Commons)
May 29, 2017, 12:49 pm
The holiday for haves and have-nots
Shavuot, a harvest festival, could have celebrated wealthy landowners --- here's how it doesn't do that
By Jeremy Benstein
Arabs and Jews buy school supplies at a store in downtown Jerusalem, August 26, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 25, 2017, 1:05 pm
What’ll we do with the next 50 years?
Willful neglect in east Jerusalem has divided the city, but it has also increased Jewish-Arab contact
By Marik Shtern
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross's haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council's infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski -- who thought himself a Jewish 'savior'
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi James Proops, affixing a Mezuzah at the base of the Gabriel Project's base of operations in Ashte. (Courtesy)
February 12, 2017, 6:26 pm
Trading bubble for slum, Jewish students learn how to fix a suffering world
The brainchild of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the Ben Azzai Program sends young adults to India to experience extreme poverty firsthand
By Jenni Frazer
A man searches the trash in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 15, 2016, 3:47 pm
1 in 5 families below poverty line and getting poorer, state says
More than half of Arab Israelis still poor, but poverty down among children, elderly, ultra-Orthodox, according to National Insurance Institute report
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A Filipino caregiver walks with an elderly Israeli man sitting in a wheelchair on April 22, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
November 14, 2016, 9:44 am
As Israelis live longer, is a pension crisis stirring?
By the year 2035, the number of elderly in the Jewish state will have doubled. Will retirement savings and public benefits suffice?
By Marissa Newman
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