el salvador Archives – Jewish Journal

Co-Founder and President of Gastromotiva, Named Charles Bronfman Prize 2019 Recipient

Erin Ben-Moche September 5, 2019

B’nai David-Judea Brings Aid to Arizona Asylum-Seekers

Shanee B. Michaelson January 23, 2019

Salvadoran savior of tens of thousands of Jews honored in Germany

Jewish Journal May 16, 2016

An army colonel and diplomat from El Salvador who helped save tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II by providing them with false Salvadoran identity papers was honored in Germany.

Israel closing five consulates, including Philadelphia

Jewish Journal January 6, 2016

In a budget-cutting move, Israel is closing five of its diplomatic offices around the world.

Growing the fruits of peace in El Salvador

Jewish Journal July 5, 2012

Don Israel speaks no English, and I speak almost no Spanish. But I understood him well enough to realize that, as I began to plant one of the mango trees that would be placed in his field that day, he obviously thought I was doing it wrong.

Uniting Among the Rabbis of Tomorrow

Leonard Fein March 18, 2004

Yes, El Salvador. Not exactly (or even approximately) a tourist mecca, but a mecca of sorts to delegations organized by American Jewish World Service (AJWS), a rapidly growing and growingly effective organization devoted to connecting Jews and Judaism to the developing world.