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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). A network of more than 175 JDC-supported Hesed welfare centers and other Jewish organizations offers vital services to ease the burden of the destitute Jewish elderly living in the region’s bitter cold. Every day, homecare for the elderly, as well as thousands of blankets, boots, warm jackets, and gallons of heating fuel oil are being provided for the neediest clients.
March 9, 2009
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Searches Tirelessly for Victims of Ongoing Georgia-Russia Conflict

Immediately following the conflict’s outbreak, JDC mobilized by setting up command posts on the Russian and Georgian sides of the region. JDC relief workers, including senior representatives continue to coordinate and execute relief operations from the ground in Rostov and Vladikavkaz (Russia) and Tbilisi (Georgia), where JDC estimates that 300 Jews who are served by JDC on a regular basis have now fled.
August 21, 2008
Russian Children and their Families Celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Program in Siberia’s “Sleeping Land”

As the tundra melts in Siberia this Summer, nearly 70 young people and their families from remote communities in Russia’s Far East will travel as long as 20 hours to Khabarovsk, Russia to reconnect with their lost Jewish heritage at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)’s week-long Bar/Bat Mitzvah program. Held July 28-August 2, 2008, the celebration includes lectures, games, prayer study, discussions and—of course—a ceremony lead by eight young “madrichim,” or leaders from the region who have participated in past programs and Rabbinical students from the California-based American Jewish University (AJU). For the first time, the program invites families for the week-long celebration.
July 22, 2008
Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Charitable Foundation to Donate $5 Million to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

JDC today announced that The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Charitable Foundation, a Bermuda trust, will grant $5 million to help ensure the continuance of JDC’s 2008 welfare and relief programs in the former Soviet Union (FSU). The donation, coming just weeks after JDC approved a budget including a $9 million deficit for 2008, will help JDC continue to provide essential aid to over 100,000 Jewish elderly in more than 3,000 cities in the FSU who are not eligible for restitution funding. The donation marks a major, unprecedented increase in contributions received by JDC from European Jews to meet the needs of fellow Jews and complements the estimated $90 million received by JDC from the Federation system of North America annually.
January 31, 2008
JDC Receives Three-Million-Dollar, Multi-Year Gift from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for Destitute Jewish Children in the Former Soviet Union

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the President and Founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) has just announced a three million dollar multi-year gift to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to provide care for the thousands of destitute Jewish children in the Former Soviet Union (FSU).
January 4, 2008
New Research Reveals Russian Women Lack Sufficient Breast Cancer Resources

In response to the growing number of Breast Cancer diagnosis and mortality rates among women around the world and including Russia, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) will bring together government officials, healthcare professionals NGO’s and breast cancer survivors at an unprecedented 2-day conference. A partnership with the Susan G. Komen foundation, the conference hopes to educate, train, and build advocacy programs that will assist the estimated 50,000 Russian women diagnosed with Breast Cancer yearly. The event will take place on October 24th, in the midst of International Breast Cancer Awareness month and is part of JDC’s Women’s Health Empowerment Program (WHEP).
October 18, 2007
JDC Sponsors Unprecedented FSU-Wide Limmud Conference

Over 700 community activists age 18-45 years old from throughout the former Soviet Union are expected to join the first-ever Limmud FSU. The pluralistic, volunteer-based gathering of Jewish learning will take place just outside of Moscow on October 18-21, 2007.
October 16, 2007
The Foundation for the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage to Receive Holocaust Era Accounts

The New York State Banking Department and The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) today announced the transfer of two dormant Lithuanian Holocaust era bank accounts, previously held by Citigroup, to The Foundation for the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage, a non-profit institution based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
September 6, 2007
“Sleeping Land” Awakens to Sounds of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

The first of its kind, the Bar/bat Mitzvah program includes lectures, games, singing, prayer study, discussions and— of course—a ceremony. Two Rabbinical Students from American Jewish University (AJU formerly UJ) in Los Angeles and a trainer from the Ukraine will lead the sessions.
July 18, 2007

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Press Releases

JDC Provides Lifeline to More Than 170,000 Elderly Jews in Former Soviet Union

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Searches Tirelessly for Victims of Ongoing Georgia-Russia Conflict

Russian Children and their Families Celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Program in Siberia’s “Sleeping Land”

Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Charitable Foundation to Donate $5 Million to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

JDC Receives Three-Million-Dollar, Multi-Year Gift from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for Destitute Jewish Children in the Former Soviet Union

New Research Reveals Russian Women Lack Sufficient Breast Cancer Resources

JDC Sponsors Unprecedented FSU-Wide Limmud Conference

The Foundation for the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage to Receive Holocaust Era Accounts

“Sleeping Land” Awakens to Sounds of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

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