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Refugees from many different countries - from Africa, Middle East and India - mostly students of Ukrainian universities are seen at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, in eastern Poland on February 27, 2022 (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
February 28, 2022, 12:13 pm
Ukraine refugee crisis highlights mistreatment of those fleeing Middle East, Africa
Warm welcome at borders contrasts with hostility, harsh language faced by others looking for safe haven
By Renata Brito
Shoshana Akabas founded the New Neighbors Partnership after working with refugees and immigrants through volunteer work at her synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun on the Upper West Side. (Courtesy New Neighbors Partnership/ via JTA)
January 9, 2022, 3:30 am
When refugees arrive in America, a NY nonprofit makes sure they feel like neighbors
The New Neighbors Partnership matches arriving families with established ones with kids of the same age, so hand-me-downs can keep coming for years and lasting relationships formed
By julia GERGELY
Children using the safe water facility at IsraAID space in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. (Lior Sperandeo/IsraAID)
April 13, 2020, 4:10 am
Crowding, lack of water spell COVID-19 nightmare for world’s 71 million refugees
Unable to wash hands or practice social distancing, huge numbers of forcibly displaced people set to suffer from pandemic at disproportionate rates, Jewish humanitarian groups warn
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hana Dubova (left) around 1942 and Rachael Cerrotti in Denmark, 2017 (courtesy)
September 29, 2019, 7:14 pm
Journalist traces grandmother’s Holocaust rescue from Nazis in unique podcast
Survivor testimony forms basis of a new series from the USC Shoah Foundation, as Boston-based Rachael Cerrotti follows the path of her grandmother’s flight from Hitler’s genocide
By Matt Lebovic
Refugees aboard a blue rubber dinghy soon to be picked up by the Ocean Viking, August 2019. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/SOS Mediterranee)
September 21, 2019, 3:10 am
In Germany, Jewish funds help keep Mediterranean migrant rescue missions afloat
As thousands flee Africa on flimsy boats, just one ship operates in the area between Libya and Italy. A Jewish aid group is partnering up with others to help its operators
By Yaakov Schwartz
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
Interior of the Vienna State Opera, file (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2018, 6:34 pm
Vienna premieres new opera on rise of far-right in Europe
Composer and librettist say when they first started composing ‘Die Weiden’ 5 years ago, there was discussion over migration, but ‘this spiral of hatred’ was not foreseen
By Simon Morgan
Nadia Batool Bokhari, a Pakistani journalist forced to seek refuge in the United States because of her job. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2018, 2:34 am
Female Muslim journalist persecuted in Pakistan reboots life in the US with HIAS
The onetime Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society applies humanitarian Jewish values to ‘strangers’ as a powerful mix of climate change and conflict drive migration to new heights
By Cathryn J. Prince
At the B’nai B’rith International Leadership Forum in Washington, DC in 2015, Charles O. Kaufman introduces a session with producer Nancy Spielberg, who screened her film 'Above and Beyond' for attendees. (Courtesy)
November 23, 2018, 8:50 pm
‘Zionism has become a bad word,’ warns incoming B’nai B’rith president
Newly elected Charles O. Kaufman tells The Times of Israel about the importance of his organization’s work with controversial UN bodies, teaching youth Zionist ideals, and refugees
By Cathryn J. Prince
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a discussion with citizen at the East German city Chemnitz, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Kay Nietfeld, Pool)
November 16, 2018, 11:06 pm
Merkel tours scene of far-right protest, defends refugee policy
German chancellor visits city of Chemnitz, says neo-Nazi views can’t be tolerated: ‘You can’t show understanding for everything’
By CHRISTOPH NOELTING and Frank Jordans
Mourners take a moment at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6 at the Tree Of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)
October 28, 2018, 10:26 pm
Week before synagogue massacre, HIAS led Jewish groups in ‘Refugee Shabbat’
Gunman who murdered 11 in Pittsburgh decried HIAS Shabbat program; accused 137-year-old Jewish immigrant resettlement organization of bringing ‘invaders to kill our people’
By Caleb Galaraga
Demonstrators gather in Berlin's Tiergarten district between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column during a major demonstration for an open and caring society organized by the action group "Unteilbar" (indivisible) on October 13, 2018. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
October 13, 2018, 7:47 pm
Tens of thousands stage anti-racism march in Berlin
Organizers says over 240,000 Germans attend rally, held in response to string of xenophobic incidents attributed to rising popularity of far-right
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the German Chancellor give a joint statement on August 18, 2018 at Schloss Meseberg castle in Meseberg, Germany. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwartz)
August 19, 2018, 1:33 am
Putin calls on Europe to rebuild Syria so that refugees can return
Meeting with the Russian president, Germany’s Merkel says the priority in Syria is ‘to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe’
By AFP
Illustrative: Syrian refugee children look from their tent during a visit by UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, September 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
June 25, 2018, 10:55 am
Jordan says it won’t take in Syrians fleeing new offensive
Russia’s defense ministry says 70 rebels killed as forces loyal to Assad launch assault to retake southern provinces
By Agencies
Illustrative: South Sudanese refugees line up to fill their plastic containers with water from a tap at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda,, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
June 21, 2018, 1:11 pm
US to resettle fewest refugees since program began
Secretary of State Pompeo defends record on World Refugee Day, says will continue to help refugees ‘reflecting the deeply held values of the American people’
By Dave Clark
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