JTA: With haredi population growing, can Israel put them to work?
In a feature on the issue of Haredi unemployment in Israel, JDC’s successful programs for this population and experts on the subject are noted throughout.
JDC in the News
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eJewishPhilanthropy: JDC Hosts First International Women’s Leadership Workshop in Jerusalem
At JDC’s First International Women's Leadership Workshop, participants featured discuss being empowered and connected through their individual life-saving work in Asia, Africa, North America and beyond.
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JointMedia News Service: A ‘Room of Sages’ at JDC Women’s Workshop
An in-depth look at the six leading female civil society leaders from Haiti, the U.S., Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia who were in Israel for JDC’s First International Women's Leadership Workshop
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eJewishPhilanthropy: Fanning the Flames of Latin American Jewish Life
Fernando Lapiduz, community director of El Salvador’s Jewish community, discusses in this op-ed how JDC fostered his leadership path in Latin America’s Jewish community.
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Forward: Helping Haiti, Long After the Quake Ended
Examining the long-term work of Jewish groups in Haiti, JDC is highlighted for its work among the island’s disabled, school children, and other populations struggling after the earthquake.
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Jerusalem Post: Jewish home on the range
A feature on the Jewish gauchos of Argentina that spotlights JDC's work in the Argentine provinces and in Argentina overall during the country's financial crisis from 2001 to today.
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CNN: Help for earthquake victims in Turkey
JDC appears at the forefront of relief efforts in a story about the devastation and ways to help people affected in the immediate aftermath of a 7.2 earthquake in Turkey's Van province.
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Jerusalem Post: Fearing bankruptcy, Greek Jews ask brethren abroad for help
A story examining the impact of the Greek debt crisis on its Jewish community and JDC's possible role in efforts to help the community in its time of need.
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Wall Street Journal: A Miraculous Post-Soviet Religious Revival
An op-ed by JDC's CEO Steven Schwager reflecting on the extraordinary renaissance of Jewish life 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Jerusalem Post: Israeli trauma program to help Japan tsunami victims
A look at the expansion of JDC's flagship Hibuki program - designed to help Israeli children cope with post-traumatic stress from rocket attacks - to Japan to aid children dealing with tsunami-related trauma.