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Jewish World Watch
Awarded $120,000 over two years for a Synagogue Resource Director

Four years ago, Los Angeles-area Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis called on his congregation to “not stand idly by” while genocides continue to occur around the world, in our day. Janice Reznik, a congregant headed this call and, together with Rabbi Schulweis, founded Jewish World Watch (JWW), an effort to end genocide by organizing the Jewish community via education, advocacy, and direct relief. Since then, this grass-roots organization has helped mobilize more than 60 synagogues , trained hundreds of high school students to be "certified youth activists," and raised over $2 million in direct aid to refugees in Sudan and Chad. Their solar cooker project has saved the lives of countless women and children who were being attacked, raped, and killed when leaving their camps to gather fire wood for cooking. The United Nations and other global relief organizations are now looking into making large investments into the program as the demand for the cookers only increasing.