Dear Friends, It has been 15 years since Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis (z”l) and I founded Jewish World Watch in an effort to live up to the vow to not stand idly by. As long as extreme violence persists throughout the world, we will be there to support the vulnerable. We will provide Rohingya children…
As the world learns of China’s surveillance, imprisonment, torture and forced “reeducation” of millions of Uyghurs, an ethnic group based mostly in Xinjiang Province in northwest China, Jewish World Watch has joined with the California Uyghur diaspora community to give voice to their disappeared relatives. Jewish World Watch supporters and numerous Uyghurs together have met…
Earlier today, on December 20, 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law the bipartisan Global Fragility Act ushering in a new era of prevention-focused foreign policy to tackle the alarming and ever-increasing levels of violence around the world. This landmark legislation was passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, approved by the…
Thanks largely to the supporters of Jewish World Watch, Cibalonza Mushagasha Chanceline has survived the unthinkable to exemplify an extraordinary story of resilience. As a young girl in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she was raped and then abandoned by her family when they learned she was carrying her attacker’s baby. “I hated myself…
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are in grave danger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern Beni Territory in the wake of deadly violence and mass protests that have cut off humanitarian access to the troubled region. As fighting between government forces and armed groups mounts, armed groups are attacking schools and health…
Late on Tuesday evening, December 3, the House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act in a landslide vote of 407 to 1, with 23 not voting. Added to a similar bill that passed the Senate unanimously in September, this amounts to a momentous victory for the persecuted Uyghur population of East Turkestan…