Running Towards the Call: Participate in National Refugee Shabbat
Remember the feeling you had when you got on an airplane alone to study abroad, or when you packed up everything you owned and moved to a new city?
Refugees
Observing World Refugee Day
Every year on June 20, we honor the resilience and courage of refugees and celebrate their contributions to our communities and to our entire nation.
Today, we face a global refugee crisis of an unprecedented scale.
Uniting Los Angeles Muslims and Jews in Support of the Rohingya
Photo: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
The article was one of the most disturbing pieces of journalism I had read in a long while. Published in Reuters online by brave journalists who have subsequently been jailed for their reporting, it described in graphic detail
Where was God then? Where is God now?
Rabbi Billy Dreskin is a rabbi at Woodlands Community Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation in Greenburgh, New York. Below is the sermon he gave on April 13, 2018 in observance of the nationwide Shabbat for Rohingya Rights.
A horrific story of the Holocaust
Shabbat for Rohingya Rights
Since August 2017, nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence and ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine State, a region on the western border of Burma.