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hebrew immigrant aid society
Jewish Community Foundation Awards $200,000 to Organizations Supporting Pittsburgh Shooting Victims, Survivors
Aaron Bandler
November 14, 2018
Welcome the refugees
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2015
In the 1940s, politicians and the State Department saw the war ravaging Europe and said only Christians could enter this country as refugees, and only a select few at that.
The Mensch List: Bearing witness to Russians’ Holocaust stories
Ryan Torok
January 2, 2014
For the past seven years, Leon Shkrab, 67, has volunteered every week at Bet Tzedek Legal Services, conducting intake interviews in Russian with Holocaust survivors who are applying for Holocaust reparations through the representation of lawyers at the pro bono law firm.
Frank Lautenberg leaves legacy of American Jewry’s profile
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2013
Someone searching for the legacy of Frank Lautenberg, the longtime Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey, might simply look to Baruch College in New York. Of the 1,900 Jewish students there, 60 percent are from the former Soviet Union, 15 percent are Persian and 10 percent are Syrian.
Iranian Jews honor local Jewish nonprofits, HIAS
Karmel Melamed
February 13, 2013
Nearly 500 local Iranian Jews packed two auditoriums at UCLA’s Fowler Museum on Jan. 28 for an event honoring three prominent Los Angeles-area Jewish nonprofits and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).
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