Category Archives: Immigration

JTA: Jewish groups praise immigration reform proposals

From JTA Jan. 30, 2013: Mark Hetfield, interim president and CEO of HIAS, an organization that deals with migration and refugee resettlement, said he “is more encouraged than we have been in years that our leaders will finally create a … Continue reading

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Jews and Immigration

Immigration activist Jeffrey Kaye writes for the Jewish Journal: In a 2007 book chapter, “Were Jews Political Refugees or Economic Migrants?,” UCLA economics professor Leah Platt Boustan provides a painstakingly thorough debunking of the “common belief that the exodus from … Continue reading

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Immigration Reform: A Jewish Imperative

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz writes: We must remember as a nation the timeless rabbinic teaching, “Do not judge your fellow until you stand in his place” (Pirke Avot 2:4). We must not attack undocumented workers with the harmful, hateful rhetoric … Continue reading

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JJ: Channeling Purim’s Esther, Jewish women fast for immigration reform

JewishJournal.com March 13, 2014: While many devout Jews across the United States and elsewhere observed the pre-Purim tradition of fasting on Thursday, March 13, more than 200 Jewish women and men are going without food today for a different cause: … Continue reading

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Vatican Has Stricted Immigration Policy In The World

Comments at the Chateau: * Go there and see for yourself. I have, it’s an amazing place. The Catholic church carried western culture for centuries. Without it, some of the greatest works of art in existence would not have been … Continue reading

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