Ruth Messinger

Ruth Messinger to step down as head of American Jewish World Service

Messinger, who has guided the international relief organization to prominence since taking over in 1998, will be succeeded by executive vice president Robert Bank.

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Op-Ed: American Jews must speak out for Haitians in Dominican Republic

As a people who have suffered the deprivation of our rights, American Jews have a duty to the tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent stripped of their citizenship in the Dominican Republic, the president of the American Jewish World Service writes.

For Jews fighting Ebola, specialty is psychosocial therapy

Health and relief workers working against Ebola in Sierra Leone are overburdened and stressed out. That’s where groups like IsraAid see an opening.

United States

AJWS calls on Obama administration to pull Uganda, Nigeria envoys

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Op-Ed: High Holidays liturgy sends message of women’s empowerment

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Three years on, Jewish groups winding down Haiti operations

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Op-Ed: For the New Year, renew the commitment to end global hunger

United States

Jewish groups urge White House to act on Sudan

Lifestyle

Study: Young Jews volunteer, but don’t connect it to Judaism

Lifestyle

Limmud becoming new favored networking tool for Jewish authors, artists, groups

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