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Oct 15, 2013

Pew Poll on Jewish Americans Creates Space to Support Refugees

The findings from the Pew Research Center’s recent survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans, have already sparked many discussions about what it means to be Jewish in America. HIAS remains deeply rooted in the organization’s own history of helping Jews facing persecution, but is also rooted in Jewish values, which have supported the organization as it has expanded to protect increasing numbers of non-Jewish refugees.

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Oct 14, 2013

Government Shutdown Leaves Refugees Stranded

Government Shutdown Leaves Refugees Stranded By HIAS Oct 14, 2013 As the government shutdown continues, refugee arrivals to the U.S. continue to be delayed, leaving thousands already scheduled for departure in limbo around the globe. Larry Bartlett, Director of Refugee Admissions at the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), announced late last […]

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Oct 9, 2013

Despite Government Shutdown, HIAS Advocacy Mission a Success

First-time mission participant Roman Zelichenko remarked, “I expect it was different than most advocacy missions but despite the inability to speak to government officials, I found the guest speakers and participants really valuable to talk and listen to.”

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Sep 17, 2013

HIAS Launches Pilot Project to Create Welcome for Refugees

What if picking up your entire life and your family and moving to a new country with a very different culture and language was your only way to survive? What if, upon arrival, people in your new community actively tried to prevent people like you, refugees, from staying in their city?

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Sep 17, 2013

Reflecting on Plight of Refugees this High Holiday Season

As the global number of refugees continues to grow, Jewish communities from Berkeley to Budapest hold those unable to return home in their prayers this High Holiday season. Rabbi Ferenc Raj, Rabbi Emeritus from Congregation Beth El in Berkeley and founder of Bet Orim Reform Jewish Congregation in Budapest, brought the refugee theme to his congregation this Yom Kippur—along with his very personal experience.

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Sep 11, 2013

Jewish groups aiding Syrian refugees — sort of

Jewish groups aiding Syrian refugees — sort of By Uriel Heilman Sep 11, 2013 HIAS recently was one of four groups allocated money by the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief to aid refugees fleeing Syria's two-year-old civil war.

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Aug 22, 2013

Moving Towards Refugee Inclusion in Ukraine

This week HIAS Ukraine Director Aleksandr Galkin met with Valeria Lutkovska, the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, to discuss migration and asylum issues and enhancing collaboration to better protect refugees.

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Aug 14, 2013

Advocating for Refugees in Immigration Reform Debate

For HIAS, the top legislative priority for immigration reform is to streamline the process for admitting certain high-risk refugee groups, including Jews and other religious minorities fleeing Iran. Another is elimination of the one-year filing deadline for asylum applications, which prevents many asylum seekers with a well-founded fear of persecution from receiving protection in the U.S.

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Aug 8, 2013

Kenya Court Vindicates the Rights and Dignity of Urban Refugees

In December 2012, the Kenyan government announced that it intended to send the more than 100,000 refugees living in Nairobi and other cities into refugee camps. The government hoped to eliminate a terrorist threat. But at what cost to the refugees themselves?

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Aug 1, 2013

Because We Are Jewish

What HIAS has done is moved from the “Exodus” period of our first 120 years, in which HIAS focused on bringing Jews from oppression to freedom, to HIAS’s “Leviticus” period, in which we fulfill Jewish values and assist refugees of all faiths and ethnicities based on our own Exodus experiences.

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