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PresenTense Magazine: What Good Are You: A Guide for the Perplexed Establishment

In 1914, two very bright Americans devised innovations that would change the way we navigate the world’s physical and philanthropic spaces. The other was Henry Morgenthau, America’s ambassador to Turkey, who gathered a small collective of Jewish philanthropists to aid needy Jews outside of the U.S.—thereby creating what remains the largest Jewish humanitarian aid organization in the world. Morgenthau’s charity— later to become the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), for whom I work—took more than a little relevance to each successive generation of its supporters to continually be able to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Jews around the world since its founding.
October 1, 2009
Jewish Social Studies: ’I Don't Know Whom to Thank’: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Secret Aid to Soviet Jewry

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee- the world's largest Jewish transnational philanthropic organization- played a principal role in this activity. Although extensive literature is devoted to the JDC in Russia, only one journalistic work and my own recent article in Russian discuss the JDC package program, as well as other aid, during the post-Stalin era.
October 1, 2009
Baltimore Jewish Times: 75 Years On, Jews in Russia’s Autonomous District Hold On

Beit Tshoova’s shul is situated on the outskirts of Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region and a relic of a misguided Soviet plan to resettle Jews in the far east of Russia, near the Chinese border, in the 1930s. The biggest benefactor of the Jewish community there is the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
September 25, 2009
Heritage Florida Jewish News: Hillel connects with Ukraine

In August 2009, students from the University of Central Florida participated in a short-term service project to Ukraine, organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Central Florida Hillel.
September 10, 2009
Washington Jewish Week: Jewish values on a hillside in Rwanda

This piece also appeared in huffingtonpost.com. The Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a project of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee that was officially inaugurated this summer, provides high school-aged teens, who as recently as a year ago lived in poverty, with a world-class education-- both formal and informal—family-structured living, three hot meals a day and a beautiful, modern place to call home.
September 10, 2009
Atlanta Jewish Times: From Kitchens Around the Globe, Recipes Make for a Sweet New Year

It may not be your Bubbe’s brisket, but leek frittatas from Turkey and cornflour-coconut halava from India are the very dishes that will make your Rosh Hashanah meal unforgettable. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), operating in more than 70 countries around the globe, has collected from some of the most exotic locales in Jewish life a menu of decadent recipes for the Jewish New Year. As with all Jewish cooking, some of the recipes play fast and loose with ingredient amounts and cooking time.
September 10, 2009
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: 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 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

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JDC in the News

PresenTense Magazine: What Good Are You: A Guide for the Perplexed Establishment

Jewish Social Studies: ’I Don't Know Whom to Thank’: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Secret Aid to Soviet Jewry

Baltimore Jewish Times: 75 Years On, Jews in Russia’s Autonomous District Hold On

Heritage Florida Jewish News: Hillel connects with Ukraine

Washington Jewish Week: Jewish values on a hillside in Rwanda

Atlanta Jewish Times: From Kitchens Around the Globe, Recipes Make for a Sweet New Year

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

JTA: Ruderman Foundation and Joint form $6 million partnership to help those with special needs

The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Retreat Rekindles Jewish Life in Siberia

The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Young Jews from 20 Countries Gather for Leadership Training in Hungary

JDC, Cookies, and Your Privacy

JDC in the News

PresenTense Magazine: What Good Are You: A Guide for the Perplexed Establishment

Jewish Social Studies: ’I Don't Know Whom to Thank’: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Secret Aid to Soviet Jewry

Baltimore Jewish Times: 75 Years On, Jews in Russia’s Autonomous District Hold On

Heritage Florida Jewish News: Hillel connects with Ukraine

Washington Jewish Week: Jewish values on a hillside in Rwanda

Atlanta Jewish Times: From Kitchens Around the Globe, Recipes Make for a Sweet New Year

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

JTA: Ruderman Foundation and Joint form $6 million partnership to help those with special needs

The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Retreat Rekindles Jewish Life in Siberia

The Jewish Journal of San Antonio: Young Jews from 20 Countries Gather for Leadership Training in Hungary

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