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Feb 11, 2015

Media Fairness and Israel: The Biggest Fails and How You Can Create Change

According to Joe Hyams, CEO of HonestReporting.com, a media watchdog website that protects Israel from media bias, online news reporting has turned into the Wild Wild West. Anyone can create a news video or write an article, and there’s no rating system to regulate these sources. However, …

Feb 9, 2015

An Internship that Really Works

“The first day, I was invited to a staff meeting and I barely spoke—but that was the last time. After that, I felt like an integrated part of the office,” remembers Rachel Neckes, who interned at Yad Chessed as part of the summer 2014 JVS/CJP Emerging Jewish Leaders Internship.

The in…

Feb 9, 2015

Haifa Parenting Program Expands Nationwide

Only a few short years ago, struggling parents in Haifa, Israel, had nowhere to turn. Today, they can be part of a strong, caring and inclusive community brought to life through Parents at the Center (PAC), launched in collaboration with CJP’s Boston-Haifa Connection and Haifa-based partne…

Jan 22, 2015

Anti-Semitism in Argentina and around the World

A group of Israeli tourists visiting Argentina’s Patagonia region were savagely attacked at a small hostel by local assailants shouting anti-Semitic slurs.

Three men “burned, robbed and beat” the tourists at a hostel in Lago Puelo in the overnight hours. Ten Israelis were injured in t…

Jan 21, 2015

CJP Statement on Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv

We are horrified and enraged to learn of another act of terror against Israelis, this time on a commuter bus taking workers to their jobs in Tel Aviv.

In a depraved act of terror, a 23-year-old Palestinian terrorist wielding a knife stabbed 17 people, wounding four of them seriously. If not…