Entries tagged with 'Africa'
Biden in Africa
Last Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Egypt, the first in a multi-stop tour in Africa that will ultimately lead him to the opening games of the World Cup in South Africa. While the public interest is likely to...
A Jewish Heart for Africa
The world's attention will soon be shifting to South Africa as the 2010 World Cup gets under way next week. I am excited as anybody (I have a secret obsession for international sports competitions), but, like other major international sporting...
African Refugees Struggle in Israel
Shaina Ward is a volunteer for the African Refugee Development Center. Israel is a crossroads for many people, both geographically and spiritually. As the center of Jewish tradition for millennia, Israel and Jews around the world have been inextricably linked....
The Other F Word: Fistula
Do you know what a fistula is? If you do, then you're likely fidgeting uncomfortably. If you don't, I'll take a moment to explain. A fistula is a childbirth complication that occurs during obstructed labor, resulting in a stillborn child....
From the Congo to Your Phone
If I told you that something most likely on your person at this very moment was helping to fund war in the eastern part of the Congo, which item would you guess? Clothing? Shoes? Perhaps your watch? All good guesses,...
Taking Action from 7256 Miles Away
New York State has banned discrimination against the transgender community in the workplace and the District of Columbia legalized same-sex marriage in the past few weeks. But in Uganda, proposed legislation would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment or...
Social Action Down Under
Naomi Abelson is a Social Action Specialist for the Union for Reform Judaism.For the past two weeks, I had the opportunity to meet with Union for Progressive Judaism (UPJ) rabbis, congregational presidents, board members, youth and social action committees...
Eradicating Fistula: The Urgency of Now
As Nick Kristof articulated in his recent Op-Ed on the subject, "perhaps the most wretched people on this planet are those suffering obstetric fistulas." He's right. As many as four million women in sub-Saharan Africa - joined by another 30...
The Next Generation
Rabbi John Moscowitz is the Senior Rabbi at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Ontario. This post originally appeared in the November 2009 edition of the Holy Blossom Temple bulletin. All views expressed are his own. Our preeminent medieval commentator Maimonides teaches that,...
"A Dozen Beds and Not a Single Patient"
CNN's online Commentary, "Where have all the malaria patients gone?" outlines the dramatic improvements that the island of Zanzibar has made in the last few years to virtually eradicate malaria with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates...
It Takes a Movement
Rabbi Marla J. Feldman Union for Reform's Judaism Interim Director of Development. She is the former director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism. Ache Yehaya and her child are alive because of you. During the month of...
All in a DC Day's Work
Raechel Banks is a participant in the Religious Action Center's Machon Kaplan summer program for college students. She is a student at Brandeis University and an intern at Global Action for Children. Sometimes it's when I'm walking in front of...
The Buzz (act fast to double your impact!)
What do you, the Washington Mystics, the NFTY SAVPs and Angelina Jolie have in common? All have the ability to combat the leading killer of refugees in Africa - malaria. Saturday was World Refugee Day, and surrounding this event there's...
Modeling Activism
Yesterday I caught an episode of "MADE" that taught me a thing or two about activism. In case afternoon MTV programming isn't part of your knowledge base, "MADE" is show where young people, usually high schoolers, turn to MTV to...
Saperstein and Prendergast: "Going to Jail to Fight Genocide"
Last Monday, Rabbi Saperstein joined other activists and members of Congress in civil disobedience at the Sudanese Embassy in protest of ongoing suffering in Darfur. Rabbi Saperstein and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast wrote a piece for the Huffington Post,...
Saperstein and Lewis Arrested in Darfur Protest
Today Rabbi Saperstein joined Representatives John Lewis (D-GA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Jim McGovern (D-MA), as well as Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of Save Darfur and John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project,...
Your Phone is Buzzing
My cell phone has been inexplicably vibrating lately. It is new and I haven't gotten a hang of all its features. But if my phone is anything like the human rights junkie its owner is, perhaps it's trying to call...
A City of Joy
For over a decade now civil war has been tearing apart the heart of Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's the deadliest conflict since World War II, with over five million deaths - a number quickly rising due...
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