It’s Time to Change
Jane Ulman
September 2, 2004
It\’s not the birth of the prehominid that scientists have named \”Toumai\” that marks the beginning of our moral evolution, but rather the birth of Adam and Eve.
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Food Poverty Grows in Israel
Loolwa Khazzoom
September 18, 2003
When, not so long ago, the director of an Israeli nonprofit organization noticed that an employee would appear at work every Sunday morning so fatigued that he could barely function, he issued him a stern warning to \”stop partying so hard on Saturday nights.\”
The gaunt-looking employee burst into tears, explaining that he had not eaten since Thursday afternoon, when he received his last hot meal of the week at work.
The Hunger Question
Gil Sedan
August 15, 2002
"We will never go hungry," Ahmad Zughayer boasted as a truck from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) unloaded sacks of flour, sugar, oil, rice and milk powder in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
Poverty and Unemployment Plague Israel
Larry Derfner
December 2, 1999
The peace process isn\’t the news in Israel anymore; it\’s poverty, unemployment and hunger. The domestic agenda, the one that Prime Minister Ehud Barak focused his election campaign on, has jumped up and bitten him.
Answering the Call
Eric Silver
February 18, 1999
Anne Roberts is passionate about the idea of tzedakah, a concept she has diligently instilled in her son Spencer Nieman.
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