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Mar 8, 2026, 3:31 PM

In Tel Aviv, my crisis response work came home

In all my years doing disaster relief and crisis response work, I never thought my family would need to consider the kind of support I've helped provide to thousands of people during wars, earthquakes, famines, and storms. At 10:00...

Aug 30, 2021, 2:17 PM

This Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish case for Haiti

In 2010, in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, a New Jersey-based Jewish philanthropist donated his children’s bar and bat mitzvah party tent, a beloved family memento, to use as a mobile operating room by organizations on...

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Avital Sandler Loeff is the executive director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's disaster relief and development unit.