JDC

Jewish schools in Europe get added $2.7 million in donations to help them through coronavirus crisis

“The situation has become dire” as parents struggle to afford tuition, a group representing the seven donors behind the package wrote.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 15, 2020 4:54 pm

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For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

Organizations like the JDC are calling elderly, often poor Jews to make up for the social networks the pandemic has destroyed.

June 25, 2020 5:04 pm

A jar of Dragon's Breath zhug produced by Jewish community members in Odessa, Ukraine. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Hummus is becoming popular in Ukraine. Jews there opened a zhug factory to capitalize on it.

A factory producing the Yemenite hot sauce commonly served with hummus hopes to address the mounting economic needs of Ukrainian Jews.

December 23, 2019 4:11 pm

JDC aiding Jews affected by munitions blast in Kazakhstan

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 17, 2019 8:04 am

JDC chief David Schizer leaving for return to Columbia Law School faculty

By Marcy Oster March 26, 2019 2:04 pm

Women serve in 13 percent of leadership positions in Latin American Jewish institutions

By JTA Staff March 10, 2019 8:09 am

Support for Israel rises among European Jewish leaders, survey finds

November 20, 2018 7:53 am

The sale of Azerbaijan’s Jewish community center deals a painful blow to a dwindling community

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 14, 2018 4:18 pm

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The evils of the Holocaust demand that each one of us be a lifesaver

By David Schizer April 11, 2018 11:46 am

Humanitarian groups provide Passover food for needy Jews in former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

March 28, 2018 9:13 am

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