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Sep 10, 2015
A Reflection on Refugees for Rosh Hashanah
Sep 10, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 10, 2015
Jewish Week: Obama Agrees To Settle 10,000 Syrians; HIAS Wants 100,000
Sep 10, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 10, 2015
BuzzFeed: Refugee Advocates Say Obama’s Plan To Take In 10,000 Syrians Is Not Enough
Sep 10, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 9, 2015
KQED Radio: Should the U.S. Be Doing More to Help Solve the Syrian Refugee Crisis?
Sep 9, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 9, 2015
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Jewish Sense of Responsibility
Sep 9, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 9, 2015
World Politics Review: Why the U.S. Has Accepted So Few Syrian Refugees
Sep 9, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 8, 2015
Time: How to Talk to Your Kids about Refugees
Sep 8, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 5, 2015
Mark Hetfield on NPR: Europe, US Treating Crisis Like “Business as Usual”
Sep 5, 2015
On Rosh Hashanah, we pause to reflect on our hopes for the year ahead. Because the Torah teaches over and over again that we should love the stranger in our midst, we hope for a good year to come not only for ourselves and our families but also for all those fleeing persecution in search of safety and freedom.
Sep 3, 2015
Legal Fellows Fight Eritrean Grandfather’s Detention
Sep 3, 2015
Gebre* thought that fleeing the chaos in Eritrea would keep his family safe. That hope was shattered in July of 2012, when a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the Jerusalem apartment Gebre's daughter (seven months pregnant at the time) and son-in-law share. The two were badly injured and extremely traumatized. The attack was just one in a string of xenophobic attacks against African migrants in Israel.
Sep 3, 2015
Op-Ed: Migrants Aren’t Widgets
Sep 3, 2015
Gebre* thought that fleeing the chaos in Eritrea would keep his family safe. That hope was shattered in July of 2012, when a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the Jerusalem apartment Gebre's daughter (seven months pregnant at the time) and son-in-law share. The two were badly injured and extremely traumatized. The attack was just one in a string of xenophobic attacks against African migrants in Israel.