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Sudan: Global Leaders Warn of Inaction in Face of Atrocities

The international community should mobilize to address the disaster unfolding “before our eyes,” Tirana Hassan, executive director of Human Rights Watch, and the leaders of over 50 international human rights and humanitarian organizations said on Wednesday.

Organization formed to support protesters has already issued several grants with more in the pipeline; Jews will struggle to participate in this year’s demonstrations, which fall on Rosh Hashanah

Antisemitic fliers passed out in a park and placed on car windshields. Swastikas painted on the sides of buildings and etched into playground equipment. Bomb threats to synagogues. Slurs shouted at Jewish worshippers. The Anti-Defamation League documented all of those incidents in Pittsburgh during the last few months of last

Elisha Wiesel, son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who heads foundation in his father’s name, explains why he’s devoted himself to genocides half a world away from Auschwitz

HIAS currently runs 114 'Welcome Circles' in 26 states, serving nearly 400 refugees, through the Welcome Corps program, which was recently formalized by the U.S. government

The Hope Away from Home: A Multifaith Celebration of World Refugee Day event was held at St. Marks Episcopal Church in Washington

PITTSBURGH (JTA) - The gunman who committed the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history is guilty of all charges he faced, according to the verdict

The State Department's new Welcome Corps program is a throwback to when local community groups resettled refugees, before the process was formalized through the Refugee Act of 1980.

On Friday, after hearing three weeks of testimony and deliberating for less than five hours, the jury in the federal case of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting found the defendant guilty of all 63 counts. Attorneys for Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin admitted that he entered the Tree of