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Ben Azzai trip to Ghana in Dec 2019 (Via Jewish News)
September 27, 2023, 3:09 pm
OPINION: One drought. One landslide. One flood. It happens at any time, without any warning
It is our Jewish imperative to respond to climate change, writes Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis as he unveils plans to take Jewish university students to Rwanda.
By Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
Morocco_Earthquake_Appeal
September 14, 2023, 11:07 am
World Jewish Relief launches Morocco earthquake emergency appeal 
2,500 dead and more than 300,000 affected by devastation of 6.8 magnitude quake disaster
By Michelle Rosenberg
Prince Charles speaking at a WJR event
August 24, 2023, 12:15 am
World Jewish Relief wins Government contract to support Ukrainian refugees into work
The organisation, which helped bring Jewish refugees to the UK 80 years ago and counts King Charles as patron, was selected to provide employment support for up to 10,000 arrivals
By Lee Harpin
Liverpool Street Station Kindertransport memorial
June 5, 2023, 6:19 pm
Liverpool Street station £1.5 billion revamp puts Kindertransport statue front and centre
Ambitious proposed upgrades to major London terminus will ensure Holocaust refugee memorial is given improved signage and pride of place
By Michelle Rosenberg
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April 28, 2023, 4:47 pm
Jerry Springer: the Jewish life and times of a cultural icon
The Jewish cultural icon, whose family fled from Germany to England during the Holocaust, died peacefully at his home in Chicago after a brief illness
By Michelle Rosenberg
March 10, 2023, 11:48 am
OPINION: One month on… the earthquake aftermath in Antakya
"Nothing quite strikes fear into the heart as the destruction": World Jewish Relief updates Jewish News, one month after Turkey's devastating earthquake
By Kai Hopkins
Jim Cator, whose family fled the Nazis in 1939, is now ‘giving something back’ by housing Ukrainian refugees (Jim Cator via PA)
February 23, 2023, 3:53 pm
Man whose family fled Nazis now ‘giving something back’ by helping Ukrainians
Jim Cator is one of several sponsors working with World Jewish Relief to provide homes for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
By Jewish News Reporter
World Jewish Relief Annual Dinner 2023, Round House, Camden
February 22, 2023, 11:31 am
Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel take podcast double act to World Jewish Relief annual dinner
King Charles sends message to charity, praising the "tremendous example" its set "over the last 90 years” as guests celebrate milestone anniversary of humanitarian agency
By Michelle Rosenberg
Oleksii Tolkachov (right) from World Jewish Relief's partner organisation - which translates as 'Land of our Dreams' - providing humanitarian aid in the recently liberated city of Kherson
February 21, 2023, 5:10 pm
‘We never thought it would last this long… we thought it would be over in a month’
The head of a charity working with World Jewish Relief in Ukraine spoke to Jewish News about the future while in London this week
By Stephen Oryszczuk
300,000 people, including children, are now homeless following the earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria. Pic: WJR
February 17, 2023, 1:18 pm
OPINION: Tzedakah and g’milut hasadim are values central to our DNA
Rabbi Dina Brawer, inaugural executive director of World Jewish Relief USA, says the charity has a responsibility to provide a response to global disasters deeply embedded in Jewish values
By Rabbi Dina Brawer World Jewish Relief
Civil defense workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
February 6, 2023, 5:27 pm
World Jewish Relief launches Turkey emergency earthquake appeal
A massive earthquake hit both Turkey and Syria, leaving more than 1,700 dead with numbers expected to rise. Here's how you can help.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Ukrainian refugee Sabina Artemieva speaks of her new career with World Jewish Relief in the UK
January 24, 2023, 4:32 pm
Jewish Ukrainian refugee flourishing in new career with World Jewish Relief
Sabina Artemieva is applauded after telling Camden Council of her work with the main Jewish oversees aid organisation in the UK, saying the 'support we give to Ukrainians now is the support I needed when I arrived'.
By Lee Harpin
Limmud FSU participants
January 3, 2023, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Vibrant, yes, but all is not well in the community
Can our community make 2023 the year it accommodates the unaffiliated masses? Alex Brummer assesses the potential pitfalls facing British Jewry.
By Alex Brummer
December 11, 2022, 10:17 am
Judge Rinder’s faithful French Bulldog Rocco dies
Unique among canines, he was a JN columnist with a gift for prose and will be missed, but most of all by dad, Robert
By Brigit Grant
Zemel by Yaffa Judah Photography
November 23, 2022, 12:37 pm
Zemel Choir to amplify WJR’s Ukraine appeal
Jewish Ukrainian composers on the musical bill at charity performance on 11 December.
By Michelle Rosenberg
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