Electricity is “iffy” in Bukavu. Unexpectedly, power goes off, and you wait patiently for the lights to go on, the fan to start, and most importantly when 9500 miles away, your internet and email connection. Also, you don’t want to be left without enough battery power for your camera. While making the long drive…
Jewish World Watch is actively working to develop a partnership with BVES, the organization described below. If you are interested in supporting JWW and BVES’s work in eastern Congo, please contact Naama Haviv at Naama@jww.org or 818-501-1836. Names of children referenced below have been changed for security. Dr. Murhabazi Namegabe is one of the…
Jewish World Watch is actively working to develop a partnership with BVES, the organization described below. If you are interested in supporting JWW and BVES’s work in eastern Congo, please contact Naama Haviv at Naama@jww.org or 818-501-1836. It’s always the children that break me down. I can listen to women tell stories of unspeakable…
It took 48 hours to get here, but we have finally arrived in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. JWW partners with various Congolese non-profit organizations here, all of whom we will be visiting over the next 4 days. We partner with Panzi Hospital in helping rape survivors who have been isolated from their families…
Two days into our trip, we finally have internet service. Amazing that in the bustling city of Kigali, Rwanda, we cannot get connected, but in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, a city with few paved roads and limited utilities, we connect right away. I traveled from Los Angeles to Kigali with one of my fellow…
I am on the first leg of our very long voyage back to Eastern Congo. Another Jewish World Watch board member and dear friend, Diane Kabat, and I are flying from Los Angeles to Amsterdam and then from Amsterdam to Kigali, Rwanda. It will take us almost 24 hours to get to Kigali. There we…
Dear JWW Supporters and Activists: As you read this message, JWW Board Members Diana Buckhantz, Diane Kabat and I are en route to Congo. We travel to meet our JWW partners in Africa and to lend moral support to those who are served by our various JWW programs in the North and South Kivu…
by Ari Averbach, student of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies We struggle with the idea of “chosenness”. What does it mean that God chose us? Are we better or more worthy than other nations? Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan sought to reconstruct Judaism by (among other ideas) removing the pillar of chosenness. The movement that followed…