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american jewish world service
Ruth Messinger: Social justice with a smile
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.
Ruth Messinger to step down as head of American Jewish World Service
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
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
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).
For Jews fighting Ebola, specialty is psychosocial therapy
Even amid the unceasing horrors of Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic, it was a case that stood out.\n
We can stop violence against women and girls today
Last weekend, as I listened to the reading of the Purim Megillah, I was struck by its theme of reversals.
Jewish group condemns new Ugandan anti-gay law
After Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a bill assigning a life sentence to some forms of homosexual activity, the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which has made LGBT rights its foremost issue, swiftly responded.