Canadian Jews: The World’s Fourth Largest Jewish Community Is Working to Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Candian Jews are increasingly turning their attention and activism to environmental issues.
Freedom Farm Sanctuary: Rescuing and Rehabilitating Abused, Neglected, Disabled Farm Animals
The facility is the brainchild and passion of two Israeli businesswomen: Adit Romano and Meital Ben Ari…
India COVID Crisis: Israel Joins Other Counties in Providing Desperately Needed Emergency Aid
Israeli NGO IsraAID and Israel-based NGO SmartAid have begun sending planeloads of…
New York Bar Mitzvah Boy’s Website Helps Thousands of Seniors to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Shots
A Bar Mitzvah boy from Scarsdale, N.Y., has built a website that, as of this writing, has enabled nearly 3,000 New York seniors to get appointments for COVD-19 vaccine shots. Twelve-year-old Sam Keusch created VaccineHelper.com as his Bar Mitzvah project. Sam originally thought of making a financial donation but realized the website he envisioned would…
Rabbi Dr. Arthur Waskow: Fighting for Human Rights, Social Justice, the Environment, and More for Five Decades
Rabbi Dr. Arthur Waskow (87 or 88) has been arrested more than 25 times while participating in nonviolent demonstrations on behalf of a range of social causes. He is the founder and director of The Shalom Center, which “equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and…
An Orthodox Jewish View of the Importance of Ecology and Sustainable Growth from Aish HaTorah
Tikkun Olam (“repairing the world’) is an important tenet in Judaism — and that includes with regard to environmental degradation and sustainable growth. All streams of the Jewish religion are concerned about ecology. Here we present one Torah-centered view from Aish HaTorah (“Fire of the Torah”), an Orthodox educational organization and yeshiva. See the article…
Expressions of Acceptance: Against the Odds, Muslims and Jews Find and Explore Their Common Humanity
It’s easy to conclude that the enmity between Muslims and Jews is intractable and probably will exist forever. The five videos linked below belie that conclusion. They may represent only a small fraction of interactions between the two religious groups, but they are real and meaningful and inspiring. There is hope! Quote: “We are…
Yosef Abramowitz: ‘Captain Sunshine’ Is an Avid Environmentalist and Pioneer of Israel’s Solar Industry
Yosef Abramowitz (b. 1964) is a pioneering developer of solar power in Israel. Named by CNN as one of the top six Green Pioneers worldwide, Yosef Abramowitz served as President of the Arava Power Company and is now focused on serving as CEO and President of Energiya Global, which builds solar fields in Africa and…
Working to Heal the World: Three Jewish Physician-Scientists in the Vanguard of the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Prominent in The Jerusalem Post’s list of “50 Most Influential Jews of 2020” (see “In the Spotlight”): three Jewish physician-scientists on the cutting edge of the search for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. They are (from left to right) Prof. Shmuel Shapira, head of Israel’s Institute for Biological Research (IIBR); Dr. Tal Zaks, chief…
Ady Barkan: Healthcare Activist with ALS Delivers Powerful Message at Democratic National Convention
We featured Ady Barkan, 36, in this space in October 2019. At the time, it appeared that the healthcare activist suffering from the debilitating and deadly disease ALS had only a very short time to live. The good news is that he’s still alive and carrying on his fight on behalf of healthcare for all…
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube.