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Holocaust expert Deborah Dwork, visiting scholar at Rutgers University’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, said, “The past can offer us a compass to guide us to where we want to go as a society.”
September 16, 2019, 11:32 am
Holocaust scholar uses Shoah to shed light on plight of modern refugees
By Debra Rubin
Rabbi Jesse Olitzky of Congregation Beth El in South Orange addresses the crowd in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Newark on Tisha b’Av. Photo by Michele Alperin
August 14, 2019, 11:18 am
Hundreds gather on Tisha b’Av to protest immigrant detention
By Michele Alperin
Bnai Keshet renovated a third-floor apartment for families seeking sanctuary from federal authorities. Photo courtesy Bnai Keshet
July 17, 2019, 11:26 am
NJ synagogues stand ‘ready to help’ immigrants
Bnai Keshet renews offer of sanctuary in wake of threatened raids
By Jed Weisberger
Victor Salama, executive director of First Friends, seeks area synagogues to provide temporary emergency housing to just-released detainees. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
July 10, 2019, 11:21 am
An important ‘first’ contact for the undocumented
Victor Salama seeks Jewish aid for those released from detention
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Members of the new activist group Never Again Action during a protest Sunday at an ICE facility in Elizabeth. Nur Shlapobersky
July 3, 2019, 10:43 am
Stepped-up activism on ‘moral crisis’ of immigration in Elizabeth, tri-state
As situation at southern border worsens, Jews’ anger, advocacy rises
By Shira Hanau
Stella Jeruzalmi Stanway plays with a migrant child at a comedor, or soup kitchen, just across the border in Mexico. (Photos by Rabbi Joshua Lesser)
March 18, 2019, 11:19 am
At border, migrants’ plight like being trapped in ‘burning building’
Elberon educator gets first-hand account of immigration debate from those who live it
By Debra Rubin
Evan Bernstein
September 20, 2018, 12:25 pm
In climate of fear and bias, protecting our immigrants
By Evan Bernstein
HIAS’s Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer said that “refugee resettlement is… a humanitarian issue, even if it has become politicized.”
September 17, 2018, 11:12 am
Neve Shalom programs aim to ‘bridge’ community divides
HIAS educator to launch series on immigrants and refugees
By Michele Alperin
July 18, 2018, 12:22 pm
Human dignity should be top priority for U.S. immigration policies
By Rabbi Ariann Weitzman
Rabbis and Jewish faith leaders cross the border into Tijuana, Mexico, last week to visit shelters where migrants are waiting as they seek asylum. Photo courtesy of HIAS.
July 11, 2018, 3:34 pm
Jewish clergy cross the border
By Avigayil Halpern
July 11, 2018, 3:19 pm
Torah views on immigrants: Let the Bible speak for itself
By Rabbi Saul J. Berman
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