A geography teacher in Israel, a maths teacher in South Africa and a dental prosthetics teacher in France are among this year’s winners of World ORT’s Beatrice Wand Polak Award.
Together with five other educators, from Latin America to the Former Soviet Union, they have received cash …
Meadan Craft Brewing made use of The Jewish Agency for Israel's Small Business Loan Funds to create a unique, gluten-free brewery in a small town in Israel's north. Project like this are made possible because of donors like you. Thank you for all that you do.
Growing up amid the smog an…
Hillel’s capacity to engage and empower Jewish students now depends almost entirely on the nearly 1,000 individual contributors who support Hillel’s mission. Our $1.3 million operating budget provides the staffing and programs to have a presence on four campuses: SDSU, UC San Diego, CS…
What started as a political crisis in November 2013 has evolved into war and near humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Ukraine. As social and economic conditions in the country continue to deteriorate, every aspect of daily life is affected. The Jews of Ukraine, the world's fifth largest Je…
As millions of people around the world marked World Cancer Day on February 4, Itai Shamir, Program Director of JDC’s Women’s Health Empowerment Program focusing on breast cancer education and early detection – recalls the power of community when thousands of women in Sarajevo gathe…
