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As the Ukrainian crisis continues, two burning questions have been repeated to me often, “How can I volunteer?” and “Do we have refugees coming here?”
Volunteer opportunities in Ukraine (or on the Ukrainian border) are limited. Right now Jewish Federations working through our on-the…
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) uses the term “fly-in” to denote a brief trip with a specific purpose. Over the years, they have sponsored fly-ins to Houston and New Orleans to access flood damage and help with rescue efforts, fly-ins to Ethiopia to participate in emergenc…
Natan Sharansky, perhaps the world’s most famous refusenik, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons before becoming an author, speaker and, eventually, Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency, recently gave this very powerful speech:
“When I was growing up in Donetsk, Ukraine, th…
