Entwine - One Jewish World, Interconnected

By Jessica Rafipour on Friday, May 24, 2013 at 3:58:49 PM

Visiting Turkey has been on my list of countries to visit since my first geography class.  It was then that I learned about the Bosporus and the Aegean Sea and the rich history surrounding those two bodies of water.  When I first learned about JDC's trip to Turkey, I had...

By Jennifer Goldman on Friday, May 24, 2013 at 2:59:36 PM

Jennifer Goldman lives in San Francisco. She traveled to Morocco's Jewish community with JDC Entwine in May. Morocco is a vibrant country filled with color and culture. However, what makes Morocco truly unique is their thriving Jewish community midst a Muslim country. Morocco’s Jewish community, while small, is extremely tight...

By Max Sandler on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 4:11:26 PM

Max  Sandler  is a JDC Jewish Service Corps fellow in Gondar, Ethiopia For the past 10 months I have been teaching English to 9th grade students at Fasiledes Secondary School in Gondar, Ethiopia. When I arrived in Gondar, I understood that I would be teaching in a government (public) school,...

By Menachem Weiss on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:47:57 PM

Menachem Weiss is serving as a JDC Global Jewish Service Corps Fellow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he primarily assists Dr. Rick Hodes, JDC’s Medical Director for Ethiopia. It takes a lot of leg work to get 34 spinal patients from Ethiopia to Ghana. For two weeks, fellow JSC fellow...

By Tufts University - Haiti 2013 on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 1:30:53 PM

Today was the day we had been waiting for; the promised highlight was that we got to visit a middle school classroom and the kindergarten at the Ecole Nouvelle in Zoranje, Haiti (the amphitheater we are working on is directly adjacent to the school, in between the school and the...