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Hochul provides nearly $2.9 million to Jewish organizations supporting refugees

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A $20 million initiative in New York will support community and faith-based organizations providing services for refugees. “New York State has a proud history of welcoming those displaced by violence or fleeing persecution with open arms,” Gov....
The U.N. General Assembly. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

Are Jewish and Arab refugees created equal?

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Following revelations that the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA colluded with Hamas in Gaza, 12 countries have withdrawn or paused their funding to the agency at time of writing, with more likely to come....
Refugees from Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Kibbutz Shefayim in central Israel, Dec, 24, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

As the war presses on, Israeli evacuees in no hurry to return

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One hundred and fourteen days into Israel's war against Hamas, rocket sirens continue to sound in evacuated southern Israel towns as fierce fighting continues in Hamas's southern Gaza stronghold of Khan Younis. While some of...
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini (second from right) addresses the pledging conference of the Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the announcement of voluntary contributions to UNRWA. At right is U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Credit: United Nations.

UNRWA to cut services after fundraising falls short

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency raised just $107 million during a pledge conference on Friday, well below the $300 million mark it says it needs to continue its operations in Judea and...
“It took U.S. experts too much time to realize that the Russian war against Ukraine is our war,” Ukraine-born historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern told JNS.

Chicago’s Ukrainian Jewish community reflects on war and troubled history of Soviet past

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Ukrainian Jews who have settled in Illinois since war began in their country a year ago report that the state has been largely pro-Ukraine and that those who seemed initially hesitant to support the...
Wave of Ukrainian refugees. Credit: rfranca/Shutterstock.

One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

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PART TWO OF TWO STORIES The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always capture adequately how much of a geographical impact wars have. Diana Bukman, who is now half a world away from a colleague in Ukraine...
Arab refugees in 1948. Photo: David Eldan

Israeli far-left is pushing to make Palestinian ‘return’ a viable option

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Israeli diplomats across the globe have recently been reporting that what, until now, has been limited to a discourse of accepting “the other’s tragedy”—namely, the story of the 750,000 Arabs who were forced to...
Ukrainian refugee. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of North America.

American Jewish community mobilizes to resettle Ukrainian refugees in midst of war

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The White House is testing a unique solution to the growing Ukraine refugee crisis. The American Jewish community is testing its response. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has launched a direct sponsorship program...
Prince Charles. Credit: Dan Marsh via Wikimedia Commons.

Prince Charles donates to British charity working to assist Ukrainian refugees

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The Prince of Wales has made a private donation to a British Jewish international humanitarian agency working to help Ukrainian refugees, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Prince Charles has been a patron of the World Jewish Relief...
Ukrainian refugee Anastasiia Zinevych arrived in Israel with her husband and is continuing her research at Hebrew University as part of a donor-funded program, April 2022. Credit: Tali Aronsky/the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ukrainian academics arrive at Hebrew University under emergency aid program

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As part of a donor-funded emergency-aid program established at Hebrew University, 18 Ukrainian refugees have been accepted to programs to continue their studies. Ten of them have already begun, including Anastasiia Zinevych, who has a Ph.D. and...