Moving & Shaking: Brent Shapiro Foundation benefit, AJWS fellows and Rabbi Naomi Levy
Jewish Journal
September 19, 2017
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Ruth Messinger: Social justice with a smile
Susan Freudenheim
March 24, 2016
The tirelessly ebullient Ruth Messinger was in town last week and took time for an interview and tea at Le Pain Quotidien in West Hollywood, talking virtually nonstop for an hour about her past 18 years as president and CEO of the international aid organization American Jewish World Service (AJWS), a role she will leave in July.
Moving and Shaking: AJWS Gala honors Barbara Boxer, Ezekiel Emanuel
Susan Freudenheim
March 15, 2016
“I don’t often speak publicly about my religion,” retiring California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said on the evening of March 13 as she took the stage to be honored at “AJWS at 30: Celebrating Our Global Leaders.”
Ruth Messinger to step down as head of American Jewish World Service
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2015
Ruth Messinger will step down as president of the American Jewish World Service, the international relief organization she has guided to prominence since taking its helm in 1998.
Philanthropist Larry Phillips, AJWS co-founder, dies
Jewish Journal
September 16, 2015
Larry Phillips, a philanthropist and businessman who was a founder of the American Jewish World Service, has died.
Moving and Shaking: Harriet Rossetto, AJWS, TCRF and Israel Advocacy
Ryan Torok
May 29, 2015
Harriet Rossetto, the founder and executive vice president of Beit T’Shuvah, a residential treatment center and educational institution in Culver City, has been named a 2015 Advocate for Action by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
AJWS expands focus on Ebola prevention, education
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2014
When the magnitude of the Ebola crisis became clear in August, Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and her team contacted the 10 Liberian organizations AJWS supports to ask whether the agencies would like to change course from other social service activities to focus on the evolving emergency.
American Jewish World Service and ending violence against women
Jewish Journal
June 18, 2014
As musician Craig Taubman strummed some opening chords on his guitar, the audience was quiet, still reflecting upon the words of the community leaders and activists who had spoken earlier.
We can stop violence against women and girls today
Rabbi Laura Geller
March 19, 2014
Last weekend, as I listened to the reading of the Purim Megillah, I was struck by its theme of reversals.
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