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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A Rwandan Charity Has Roots in the Holocaust's Aftermath

When Rwandans commemorate the 15th anniversary this month, a group of students on a hilltop village in eastern Rwanda will be remembering in their own way. The 125 teenagers are students at Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a home for orphans of the genocide. The village is modeled after an Israeli community built in 1953 to serve children who lost their parents in the Holocaust. Agahozo was started by Anne Heyman, a former lawyer in New York. She recruited the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a New York nonprofit group to which she had donated in the past, to take on the project.
April 6, 2009
The Miami Herald: Rwandan boarding school is place for orphans to dry their tears

Fifteen years ago, the world was stunned by images of Nile River tributaries jammed with human bodies, victims of an ethnic bloodbath that claimed a mind-boggling one million lives in roughly 100 days. Tuesday, on a rural mountaintop, 125 orphans and their adult mentors will stop to weep for loved ones lost and for families and communities ripped apart.The children are students at the three-month-old Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, a high school set in the Rwandan highlands that models itself after an Israeli village for Holocaust survivors. Founders Anne Heyman and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee stress that the $13 million project is much more than an orphanage or boarding school. The students here are adopted for life.
April 5, 2009
Boca Raton News: Witness Theater Unites Local Teens, Holocaust Survivors

Each week, local Holocaust survivors and an equal number of students from area public, private and Jewish day schools have been sharing their life stories to create a work of living history. Witness Theater has been highly successful for the past eight years as a project of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's JDC-ESHEL, the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel.
April 3, 2009
The Jewish Week: World War III, Coming To A Theater Near You

The IFCJ is a key partner, for example, with groups like the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Joint Distribution Committee. Steven Schwager, the Joint’s CEO, describes Rabbi Eckstein as "a lifesaver" in working with the Joint to fund a program that provides hot meals and education for impoverished youngsters in the former Soviet Union.
March 24, 2009
Reuters: JDC Provides Lifeline to More than 170,000 Elderly Jews in Former Soviet Union

From St. Petersburg, Russia to Siberia, from Kiev, Ukraine to Kazakhstan, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provides relief to more than 170,000 destitute elderly Jews in over 2,900 cities, towns, and villages across the vast cultural and geographic expanse of the republics that comprise the former Soviet Union (FSU). This piece appeared in more than 75 publications including Forbes.com,Los Angeles Times.com, StreetInsider.com, and USA Today.com.
February 23, 2009
The Jerusalem Post: Truly, a good Jew

For Abramovitch, who is slowly winding down more than 60 years of service at the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), those words have served as a driving force behind his efforts to aid Jews in the furthest reaches of the globe.
February 2, 2009
JTA: Synagogue attack adds to fears in Venezuela

"A few days ago we had an emergency meeting with leaders of the Caracas Jewish community, who shared with JDC their grave concerns about the rapidly escalating situation," Steve Schwager, JDC’s executive vice president, said in a statement. "In an immediate response, JDC’s staff in Latin America stepped up its urgent work with the Jewish community in Venezuela. We increased and intensified our staff presence in Venezuela to assist the community in expediting its readiness in response to the new threatening reality."
February 1, 2009
New Jersey Jewish Standard: Find a way to support Israelis living under fire

The work we do through our overseas partners—the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, along with the Ethiopian National Project and the Israel Trauma Coalition—makes a real difference in people’s lives. Just after Israel’s Operation Cast Lead began, our UJC/Federation system launched the Israel Solidarity Drive, committing $10 million to meet these critical needs
January 23, 2009
JTA: UJC to raise $10 million for relief effort

The United Jewish Communities announced Monday that it will raise the funds to augment humanitarian and social needs programs that its overseas partners, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, already run in southern Israel, which has been under attack by Hamas missiles....
January 6, 2009
New Jersey Jewish News: A Jewish journey, from joy to sorrow and back

The Cuban-Jewish community has shrunk from 15,000 in 1959 to 1,500 today. In 1990, Castro relaxed the anti-religion attitude of the government, and many who had cast off their Jewish identity began to return. In 1992, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was given permission to assist with rebuilding the Jewish community.
January 1, 2009

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JDC in the News

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A Rwandan Charity Has Roots in the Holocaust's Aftermath

The Miami Herald: Rwandan boarding school is place for orphans to dry their tears

Boca Raton News: Witness Theater Unites Local Teens, Holocaust Survivors

The Jewish Week: World War III, Coming To A Theater Near You

Reuters: JDC Provides Lifeline to More than 170,000 Elderly Jews in Former Soviet Union

The Jerusalem Post: Truly, a good Jew

JTA: Synagogue attack adds to fears in Venezuela

New Jersey Jewish Standard: Find a way to support Israelis living under fire

JTA: UJC to raise $10 million for relief effort

New Jersey Jewish News: A Jewish journey, from joy to sorrow and back

JDC, Cookies, and Your Privacy

JDC in the News

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A Rwandan Charity Has Roots in the Holocaust's Aftermath

The Miami Herald: Rwandan boarding school is place for orphans to dry their tears

Boca Raton News: Witness Theater Unites Local Teens, Holocaust Survivors

The Jewish Week: World War III, Coming To A Theater Near You

Reuters: JDC Provides Lifeline to More than 170,000 Elderly Jews in Former Soviet Union

The Jerusalem Post: Truly, a good Jew

JTA: Synagogue attack adds to fears in Venezuela

New Jersey Jewish Standard: Find a way to support Israelis living under fire

JTA: UJC to raise $10 million for relief effort

New Jersey Jewish News: A Jewish journey, from joy to sorrow and back

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