{"id":18087,"date":"2016-10-25T21:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=18087"},"modified":"2016-10-25T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:08:55","slug":"rhms-social-justice-fellows-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/rhms-social-justice-fellows-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"RHMS Social Justice Fellows Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis Social Justice Fellowship, named to honor JWW\u2019s co-founder, the visionary longtime leader of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, is a year-long internship for college and graduate-school students.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors\/\">Rabbi Schulweis<\/a> envisioned a network of students, multiplying annually, who would help to carry out JWW\u2019s mission \u2014 to not stand idly by as genocide and mass atrocities continue throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, a roster of JWW Social Justice Fellows are selected for their passion for social justice and for their desire to educate and inspire others to action. This year\u2019s cohort (pictured above) includes two students from USC, two from UCLA, two from Cal State Northridge, one from American Jewish University, and two who are not local to Southern California: one from the University of North Carolina and another from Union College in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Fellowship provides students with an opportunity to engage in human rights and anti-genocide awareness and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/take-action\/advocacy\/\">advocacy <\/a>initiatives and to develop a network of anti-genocide activists on campus. Fellows participate in a rigorous orientation and \u201cBrunch and Learn\u201d sessions, receiving more than ten hours of direct instruction on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/who-we-are\/what-we-do\/\">Jewish World Watch\u2019s mission<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/conflict-areas\/\">focus areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/who-we-are\/staff\/\">JWW staff<\/a> throughout the school year, Fellows promote JWW\u2019s mission through social media, advocacy actions, and participation in the planning and implementation of on and off-campus educational, advocacy and fundraising events.\u00a0 This year, in addition to promoting, recruiting a school team and participating in JWW\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/take-action\/events\/walk\/la-walk\/\">Walk to End Genocide in Los Angeles<\/a> on April 30, 2017,\u00a0 Fellows will assist in the planning and execution of the first ever West Coast Lemkin Anti-genocide Summit and film festival.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now closed for 2016-2017. Applications for the 2017-18 academic year will be available\u00a0on our website\u00a0in June, 2017 .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis Social Justice Fellowship, named to honor JWW\u2019s co-founder, the visionary longtime leader of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, is a year-long internship for college and graduate-school students.\u00a0 Rabbi Schulweis envisioned a network of students, multiplying annually, who would help to carry out JWW\u2019s mission \u2014 to not stand idly by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-features","category-176","category-188","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}