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When the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare discrepancies in resource equity, MIT postdoc Dig Bijay Mahat worked to help Nepal navigate widespread Covid testing requirements and vaccine rollouts.

The Statesman Season for Caring program helped featured families with better housing, medical care, education and more last year

I was in two minds about posting this. On one hand, it is embarrassing and a chilul Hashem (desecration of G-d’s name), so I did not want to give it more publicity. On the other hand, it is already out there, and I feel it important to let people know how 60 Minutes Australia are pretty much libeling the Jewish community when they call this guy a Rabbi. He might be a rabbit, but he sure as hell ain’t no Rabbi. No Rabbi I know would act like this, since approximately one thousand years ago, Rabbi Gershom banned polygamy, a ban accepted as law by all Ashkenazic Jews. And even though it was...

Monday the 12 Statesman Season for Caring partner nonprofit agencies each received a $40,000 grant from the program. This is the second grant they have each received. In December, they each received a $10,000 grant.  A final grant will come in mid-February after Season for Caring ends its donation period on Jan. 31. This year Season for Caring is having a record year. It has raised almost $117,000 in in-kind donations of goods and services and $1.36 million in monetary donations for a total of $1.47 million.  The grants received by the agencies will be used for helping the featured famili...

This week, Pat Munday made a $100,000 gift, doubling what she gave last year. Munday is the widow of Bill Munday, who owned car dealerships in Austin and Houston before his death in 2018. This year, she's been donating money to organizations like Season for Caring, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and Hungry Souls, which are helping to keep families fed during the pandemic.  Since the program began in 1999, Season for Caring has given $15.1 million to local nonprofit organizations.  The agencies use the monetary donations to help the featured families first but then are able to help hun...