Joint Distribution Committee
Police responding to the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
November 1, 2018, 12:01 am
‘I’m scared to bring my daughter up here’
ON Shabbat morning Yeshiva Bondi graduate Rivkah Botnick was at her uncle's house in Pittsburgh when word spread that there was a shooting at a synagogue only four blocks from her house.
By Joshua Levi
Damage caused by the earthquake in Ecuador. Photo: Twitter.
May 3, 2016, 12:00 am
Joint mobilises after Ecuador quake
THE Joint Australia has swung into action after the devastating earthquake in Ecuador that has killed at least 650 people and injured more than 16,000.
AUJS LDP participants with members of the Mumbai Jewish community.
January 26, 2016, 12:00 am
Meeting Mumbai’s Jewry
Bella Meyer addressing the Joint Australia gala function in Sydney. Photo: Giselle Haber
November 19, 2015, 12:00 am
Memories of Marc Chagall
WERE it not for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Belarusian-born French painter Marc Chagall would likely have perished, his granddaughter Bella Meyer told audiences at the organisation’s gala dinners in Sydney and Melbourne this month.
By Evan Zlatkis
Bella Meyer.
November 9, 2015, 12:00 am
Chagall’s granddaughter visiting for Joint
IN 1921, Marc Chagall, born Moishe Segal in Lithuania, lived in poverty near Moscow, amid the chaos of the Bolshevik Revolution. To supplement his income from the modernist paintings he pioneered, the struggling artist taught art at a shelter supported by the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) for Jewish boys orphaned by Ukrainian pogroms. The art lessons buoyed their threadbare lives.
By Peter Kohn
April 30, 2015, 12:00 am
Community urged to dig deep for Nepal
By Phoebe Roth
November 25, 2013, 12:00 am
JDC fellow Philippines-bound
A DOCTOR from Melbourne has flown to the Philippines to lend his support to the typhoon-ravaged country, after becoming the first Australian to be awarded the Ralph I. Goldman (RIG) Fellowship in international Jewish service.
By Phoebe Roth
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