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employment
SodaStream offers to take in Syrian refugees
The Israeli company SodaStream has offered to take in Syrian refugees and employ them in its new factory in the Negev Desert.
Tackling the Job Search
After some 40 years in the business world, Gordon Steen never thought his morning would start outdoors with hyenas, elephants and monkeys.
$2.5 million grant will place young adults with disabilities in jobs
A $2.5 million grant to Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston will fund a groundbreaking program that places young adults with disabilities in jobs.
The big switch: Eight practical steps to making a career change
Back in the olden days, Pops worked at the same manufacturing plant his entire adult life, waking up every morning at the same time, returning home with the same empty lunch pail, wearing the same faded work uniform. A carpenter was a carpenter for life; a lawyer stayed a lawyer and the town butcher never quit his job to pursue a career in fashion design.
Charedi yuppies
When Baruch Meir Yaacov Shochet called Asher Klitnick into his office on that day in 2004 to discuss the growing crisis of poor Charedi families, the rebbe had more on his mind than just fundraising. This time, he was also thinking about jobs. He asked Klitnick and his team to prepare Charedis to join the working world.\n
American ideas boost bid to get Israelis to work
STRIVE, an intensive work-readiness program, is modeled after an initiative of the same name that began more than 20 years ago in New York\’s Harlem in an effort to help women on welfare overcome their severe difficulties in finding and keeping meaningful jobs.
Vocational Service Gains Career Center
To Vivian Seigel, Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) is a living, breathing entity that must grow with the times or risk irrelevance.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker Find Me a Job
Benjamin Brown found out a master\’s degree in Jewish history didn\’t help him much in finding a job. So a few years ago, Brown, 29, launched an employment Web site for the Jewish community, which he named JewishJobs.com. The initiative seems to have been a success: Brown not only secured a job at the now-defunct United Jewish Communities\’ (UJC) Trust for Jewish Philanthropy, he has attracted more than 6,000 job seekers to his service, which boasts a testimonials page of happily matched employees and employers.
Material Instincts
Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.
\”I just don\’t have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house,\” said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.
Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.