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Moisey Katsman, a disabled, homebound Holocaust survivor, enjoys apples and honey delivered in advance of Rosh Hashanah 2023. He is one of thousands of the country's neediest Jews receiving New Year food packages from the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in partnership with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Claims Conference and Jewish Federations of North America. Photo by Misha Kovalev.

Groups deliver New Year staples to thousands of Jews in Ukraine

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Ahead of the Jewish New Year and more than 18 months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is providing thousands of the most impoverished Jews in...
A JDC Jewish community volunteer helps an elderly woman onto a bus that is part of a JDC evacuation convo out of the city of Dnipro during the height of the conflict. Photo by Misha Kovalev.

One year into the war, Jewish humanitarian efforts remain in full throttle in Ukraine

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PART ONE OF TWO STORIES As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its one-year anniversary on Friday, North American Jewish leaders at the forefront of humanitarian aid to Ukraine are appreciative of the ways Jews...
Leora Wine, director of disaster response for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, helps make bread in a restaurant in Gaziantep, Turkey, February 2023. Photo courtesy of JDC.

JDC works with Turkey’s local community, global Jewry to bring relief to quake victims

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After a week-and-a-half on broken ground in Turkey, Leora Wine, director of disaster response for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), thinks Turkey is still in transition from rescue to recovery. “That’s why the...
Jewish men, women and children evacuate from the city of Odessa, Ukraine, during Russia's invasion of the country, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. Credit: JDC.

On frontlines and borderlines: JDC races to assist refugee situation in Eastern Europe

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A small family from Kyiv seeking to leave Ukraine early after the fighting broke out contacted the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, commonly known as the JDC or the Joint, for help. A 40-ish couple,...
Airman 1st Class Olabode Igandan, a 436th Aerial Port Squadron passenger-services apprentice, palletizes ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Jan. 21, 2022. Credit: U.S. Air Force Photo by Mauricio Campino via Wikimedia Commons.

A quiet crisis in Ukraine

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As the pendulum continues to swing between diplomacy and possible conflict in Ukraine, a quiet crisis of human need is spreading out across the country. While not the dramatic stuff of front-page news, it’s...
A concert at Judafest in Europe. Credit: Judafest/JDC.

JDC European leaders survey: Anti-Semitism, communal sustainability top concerns

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Key findings of a new survey were released on Thursday by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s International Center for Community Development (JDC-ICCD). The Fifth Survey of European Jewish Community Leaders and Professionals was conducted between April and...
Haitians survey damage to buildings after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Aug. 14, 2021. Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

JDC provides critically needed medical supplies to Haiti following earthquake

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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is responding to the Aug. 14  earthquake that struck southwestern Haiti by providing critically needed medical supplies—surgical instruments, fluids, IV starters, sutures, gloves, masks, face shields and...
Israel Aerospace Industries new ventilator production line. Credit: Courtesy.

JDC responds to surge of coronavirus cases in India

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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in coordination with the Indian Jewish community and its local partner SEWA Cooperative Federation, is responding to the surge of coronavirus cases in India by deploying ventilators to...
More than 30,000 boxes of matzah will be delivered by JDC volunteers to the Jewish elderly in the former Soviet Union during the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, March 2021. Credit: JDC.

JDC offers annual Passover food packages, educational activities via Zoom

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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), is reaching widening global audiences this Passover with hundreds of online events, holiday content and its century-old tradition of delivering matzah to Jews in need. While in-person activities...
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Artem Okun leads a Jewish educational seminar for young Jews in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit: JDC.

A lesson in Hanukkah miracles from post-Soviet Jews

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We Jews are no strangers to miracles, but in the great tales of Divine deliverance, the Hanukkah story feels like the runt of the litter. Compared to the parting of the Red Sea or the...