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The Jerusalem Post: Gov't signs $6 million deal with private family foundation, JDC

The government on Monday signed a $6 million deal with the US-based Ruderman Family Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to create new services aimed at improving the lives of Israel's disabled population. Named Masad Nehuyot in Hebrew - it has yet to receive an official English name - the project involves a $2m. investment from each of the parties, both of which will be involved in the decision-making process along with representatives from the disabled community. "We have brought together many Jewish foundations to work with the Israeli government on projects here but none have been involved in such a high level of partnership," Alan Gill, executive director of international relations for the JDC, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. "This is the first time we have created a national contractual partnership in this manner."
September 8, 2009
JTA: Ruderman Foundation and Joint form $6 million partnership to help those with special needs

Monday, The Ruderman Family Foundation officially launched a $6 million partnership with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Israeli government to help better serve Israel’s nearly 700,000 special needs citizens. The Ruderman family made a decision when it started six years ago to focus on the special needs community, and has spent millions of dollars in the Boston area working with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies provide better services for special needs students in 12 of the area’s Jewish day schools.
September 4, 2009
The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Young Jews from 20 Countries Gather for Leadership Training in Hungary

When Adir Bhastekar told his parents he had been offered the opportunity to leave the bustling, crowded streets of Mumbai this summer to travel to far-off Szarvas, Hungary, they told him to jump at the chance. They wanted him to join the more than 1,800 young Jews from around the world who woe experiencing a unique kind of Jewish community at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation/American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) International Summer Camp in the serene forests of Southeastern Hungary.
September 1, 2009
The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Retreat Rekindles Jewish Life in Siberia

Looking at Dasha Mazanik, one would never know that at one time her only Jewish experience was limited to what her grandmother, and sole guardian, Tamara shared. And yet today, Dasha, who was abandoned by her alcoholic mother after the death of her father, is an active participant in the JDC-suppoited Ulan-Ude JCC in Eastern Siberia, has taught Jewish tradition to youngsters, and participates in the JCC's Shalom dance group. She even became a bat mitzvah in 2007. That transformation culminated this year in Dasha's service as a madricha (counselor) at JDC's week-long Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program for young Jews and their families in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
September 1, 2009
The Jewish Press: JDC Camp in Hungary Unites Young Jews

When 21-year-old Adir Bhastekar told his parents he had been offered the opportunity to leave the bustling, crowded streets of Mumbai this summer to travel to far-off Szarvas, Hungary, they told him to jump at the chance. They wanted him to join the more than 1,800 young Jews from around the world who woe experiencing a unique kind of Jewish community at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation/American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) International Summer Camp in the serene forests of Southeastern Hungary.
August 31, 2009
Pittsburg Jewish Chronicle: In recession battered Russia, the Snyders meet beneficiaries of local dollars

For seven years, Sandy and Edgar Snyder have visited Russia with their SOS program, which gives emergency aide to Jews who have fallen through the cracks of the system.With the global economic downturn, those cracks are splitting wider, Edgar Snyder said in a Sunday phone call from Yekaterinburg, a Russian city east of the Ural Mountains. “The recession has hit big-time in Russia,” said Snyder, the well-known western Pennsylvania personal injury lawyer and philanthropist within the Jewish community. When the Snyders last visited two years ago, rising oil prices were filling government coffers, and the country seemed to have made a complete turnaround from a financial crisis, in 1998. Over the past year, though, the drop in commodities prices made by the global recession hit Russia harder than most other major economies. Snyder sits on the board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which helps administer the SOS Program in Russia through its Hesed Welfare Centers.
August 24, 2009
The Jewish Exponent: She Says 'Da' to a Rare Opportunity Abroad

Miriam Moody is working on her pronunciation of the consonant-laden word "Dnepropetrovsk" -- the name of Ukraine's third-largest city. Moody, who graduated in May from the University of Rochester and grew up in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, has reason to bone up on her Russian. Next week, the 22-year-old is set to leave for a year in the city that lies on the Dnieper River and has a population of roughly 60,000 Jews. Dnepropetrovsk has been on the radar for some; it's been a sister city of the Boston Jewish community for 18 years. Moody was one of 10 volunteers nationwide -- and the only one from the Philadelphia area -- to be selected as an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Jewish Service Corps Fellow. According to the JDC's Web site, the program is a chance "for active, enthusiastic, knowledgeable Jews to serve and take part in the life of a Jewish community overseas."
August 20, 2009
The Jewish Advocate: Ruderman aids Israel's disabled

A Boston-based philanthropy, the Israeli government, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee are launching Masad Disabilities, the first centralized Israeli organization with the authority to implement nationwide policies to serve disabled Israelis. "They have children, they have families, they have full lives, many serve in the army, yet they need special services," said Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation.
August 14, 2009
The Jewish Week: Picture of Young Innovators Emerging

The business of grooming and funding young Jewish social entrepreneurs and innovators - essentially the search for the next big Jewish idea - is now a big one. The ROI (Return on Investment) five-day conference held last month in Ramat Gan, Israel, was proof if this international phenomenon. Jeremy Applebaum [an ROI participant], a Kansas native and real estate entrepreneur is running a series of events aimed at introducing Kansas City Jews to the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
July 24, 2009
The Jerusalem Post: Learning on the Job

Corporate social responsibility benefits everyone involved. Just ask the employees of Applied Materials, a global high-tech company that decided to do more than just drink coffee at the Aroma café located in its Rehovot office building. In June 2003, Applied Materials opened a non-profit café in partnership with Aroma Israel, the Ashalim organization for children at risk and the Havayot community center of Rehovot. The branch, called Aroma Applied, celebrated its sixth anniversary on June 24 and employs about 45-50 youth at risk, typically between 16 and 18. The café's work-training and educational programs equip these teenagers with professional skills, work experience and a supportive environment. Applied Materials was initially approached by Ashalim's youth entrepreneurship program, It's a Deal [a JDC-Ashalim program], which wanted to set up a small business run by youth at risk.
July 15, 2009

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