Far-right Israeli minister finds enemy in JDC, the mainstream American Jewish aid group

Itamar Ben-Gvir calls the Joint Distribution Committee, which since 1914 has distributed billions in dollars of aid across 70 countries, including Israel, a “leftist organization.”

An employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, right, hands out an aid package to a Jewish woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. (Courtesy of JDC)

Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

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