Tag: Tikun Olam
Deaf, Oscar-winning actress to shine a spotlight on Jewish individuals with disabilities
Sixty-one million adults in the United States live with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates more than one billion people worldwide...
College student spends days buying groceries for those stuck at home
Most weeks, Kaila Zimmerman-Moscovitch is busy juggling a full load of college classes and two part-time jobs. It’s a schedule that doesn’t allow for much free time.
With the coronavirus upending her normal routine and...
‘Reverse Tashlich’ program encourages Jews to keep the oceans clean
A Florida-based program aimed at reconnecting Jewish people to the ocean and empowering them to help keep the sea clean is attracting attention from communities around the United States and even in Israel.
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Jewish Agency chair Herzog visits volunteers helping children in South Africa
Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog visited Durban, South Africa, on Thursday, meeting with visiting agency volunteers who are assisting disadvantaged people as part of tikkun olam initiatives to “repair the world.”
He told a group...
Jewish Federation expands Hurricane relief fund to aid Irma’s victims
The devastation already experienced and still expected from Hurricane Irma, the second massive tropical storm to strike in less than two weeks, has prompted the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to expand the Relief...
Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center
In the 1940s, many years before he fled the Iranian Revolution and became a rich man in America, Younes Nazarian was a boy from the Jewish ghetto selling and replacing light bulbs in the...
Jews working to help non-Jews, a longtime Pittsburgh tradition
Repair the World is a relative newcomer to the Pittsburgh Jewish landscape — it established a chapter here just four years ago — but its mission to aid the underserved regardless of religious affiliation...
Israel, jewish group provide emergency aid to flood-stricken Sri Lanka
The American Jewish Joint Distribution is providing emergency aid to victims of the devastating flooding and mudslides that killed hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands more in Sri Lanka this week.
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