South Sudanese migrants in Israel get reprieve

Published on March 29, 2012

South Sudanese migrants will not be forced to leave Israel by the end of the month as planned.

Visiting Darfur Camps Brings Home Need

By Rabbi David Saperstein
Published on November 10, 2005

We stood on Sukkot amid the Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad along the Sudanese border: two prominent Reform rabbis, Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas and Rabbi Rick Jacobs of Westchester Reform Temple in New York; John Fishel, president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, who is deeply knowledgeable about Africa, and Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which organized the trip and does such effective development work worldwide.

Ah Paris! Yasser Returns at Last

By Carole Raphaelle Davis
Published on November 11, 2004

I have a mere two degrees of separation from Yasser Arafat. Down the street from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is a little hair salon where I get my hair cut.

Sudan—Why We Can’t Give Up on the U.N.

By Robin Podolsky
Published on July 29, 2004

Over 30,000 people have been brutally murdered in the Darfur region of Sudan. At least 120,000 are living in tent camps, now being hammered by rains that turn the dust to mud. Diseases that thrive in the soggy ground continue, along with malnutrition, to drive the body count higher.

Cycle of Bloodshed

By Larry Derfner
Published on March 7, 2002

There is a new rhythm to the terror attacks against Israelis: They are coming in one-two punches, leaving the country staggering.