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Benjamin Meed and his wife Vladka Meed helped to organize the first World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel in June 1981. [1] [2] Inspired by and an outcome of that event, in 1981, the Meeds and other fellow Holocaust survivors established a North American organization called The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. [3]
In 2023 and 2024, during the Israel–Hamas war, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington reported a "dramatic uptick" in requests for help from parents, teachers, and students due to a surge in antisemitic incidents in Washington, D.C. and DC's suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. [10]
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington was founded in 1976 as the UJA Federation of Greater Washington. [1] During the 2023 Hawaii wildfires, the Jewish Federation created a fund to benefit relief work in Maui, raising nearly $25,000. [2]
At least one pro-Palestinian group, the Washington chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, has asked its supporters on Instagram "not to engage" with Tuesday's pro-Israel event.
The Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, D.C. (formerly the Washington DCJCC) is an American Jewish Community Center located in the historic district of Dupont Circle. It serves the Washington, D.C. area through religious, cultural, educational, social, and sport center programs open to the public, although many programs are ...
Aug. 25—Bob Sanders, a Jewish anti-war activist, goes the distance for the causes he believes in. On Saturday the 68-year-old Concord resident set out to pedal 650 miles through 10 eastern ...
Since its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 99 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world, and less than 10 percent are Jewish.
Jewish Social Service Agency offers programs on dealing with anxiety and stress resulting from war. [7] In 2013, it partnered with Yachad and American Jewish Society for Service to develop and implement a curriculum that helps people understand what it is like to live with a disability and how important social services are to people in need of ...