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JDC has developed programs to help reservists and disabled veterans transition back to work and fill roles that Israeli businesses need to return to full productivity. Pictured here, reservists at a management training initiative.

From vulnerability to strength: Empowering the economically at-risk

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Efrat Stern: Believes effective mental well-being solutions require collaboration between government, organizations, and communities.

'It's about every one of us': JDC Division Director addresses Israel's mental fortitude amid crisis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Olga Govorova, 85, is among the more than 36,300 vulnerable Jews in Ukraine receiving ongoing aid from JDC, like food, medicine, and home care. Maria Zimina, 17, who is part of JDC’s Active Jewish Teens program that’s nurturing the next generation of Jewish leadership, visits Olga weekly

For a Jewish world in crisis, JDC ensures Hannukah’s light inspires hope and action

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A graduating class of the Ubuntu Beekeeping Initiative in South Africa, one of dozens of programs in the developing world run by JDC that empower and lift up women, their families, and communities.

JDC is helping women in the developing world thrive

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Shuki, a participant in JDC's "Meshiv HaRuach" programs in Ofakim, blows the shofar.

The sounds of the High Holidays in Ofakim

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ROZETTE AFTEKER, 80, welcomes a JDC worker.

Facing north: Rebuilding lives and hope in northern Israel

By PENINA HOROWITZ

JDC conducts wellness and recreational activities for elderly evacuees at hotels, including those from northern Israel desperate to return home.

Elderly Israelis face economic, health struggles amid war, survey reveals

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JDC’S 18 HESEDS in Ukraine offer community and vital services to meet ongoing and emerging needs as the conflict rages on

A lifeline for Ukraine’s Jews

By MEI KAPLAN

JDC conducts wellness and recreational activities for elderly evacuees at hotels, including those from northern Israel desperate to return home.

Rebuilding lives: JDC's lifeline for Israel’s displaced, traumatized, and front-line communities

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

A man stands on the rubble of a house destroyed by recent shelling during Ukraine-Russia conflict in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2022.

This Jewish family became refugees because of the Russia war — twice

By MICHAEL STARR

People gather on a street in Casablanca, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, September 9, 2023.

Jewish American org. Joins Morocco Jews in earthquake relief

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir seen at the entrance to the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023

Far-right Israeli minister finds enemy in JDC, the American Jewish aid group

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Members of the Disaster Response Special Unit, who will fly to Turkey to help in the aftermath of an earthquake, board a Hellenic Air Force C-130, before departing from the military airport of Elefsina, Greece, February 6, 2023

Over 50 Jewish communities donated to earthquake relief efforts

By OMRI NAHMIAS