Shifting Gears
Michael Aushenker
September 19, 2002
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
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Get a CLUE to Help the Poor
Mike Levy
September 19, 2002
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
Argentina: A Crisis-Stricken Community Struggles to Survive
Uriel Heilman, JTA
May 23, 2002
It takes a visit to Argentina to understand just how bad this crisis really is.
Rich Israeli, Poor Israeli
Larry Derfner
December 16, 1999
For all the recent hubbub over the worsening lot of Israel\’s poor, and the growing criticism of Prime Minister Ehud Barak\’s born-again Reaganite economic policies, it should be understood that in many key misery indices, Israel isn\’t doing too badly.
Rich in Spirit
Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh
December 9, 1999
There\’s a Yiddish saying that goes: \”I\’ve been poor and I\’ve been rich. Believe me, rich is better!\” In the Midrash we read: \”Nothing in the universe is worse than poverty; it is the most terrible of sufferings.\” (Exodus Rabbah 31:14)
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.
Russia’s Elderly
John R. Fishel
September 11, 1999
In Samara, a city of 1.2 million in the Volga region of Russia, 87-year-old Anna sits in a 100-square-foot spacethat is her reality. One of perhaps 8,000 elderly Jews in town, shespends her lonely days confined to her room, blind and her legs tooweak to support her. A sagging bed takes up most of her room, whichis one of five apartments that constitute the communal apartment inwhich she exists. The other residents share one toilet and a dirtykitchen.
Pledging to Produce
Ruth Stroud
January 7, 1999
Fifty-one years after going door to door and soliciting funds to help the fledgling State of Israel get off the ground, Jake Farber is at it again.
When Poverty Strikes
Naomi Pfefferman
December 3, 1998
Every evening, the petite, homeless Jewish woman discreetly parks her compact car across the street from a public park. She spends the night in an automobile that holds all her possessions.
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