News & Stories

As Passover approaches, get inspired for the seder with these unique and meaningful haggadot from OLAM partners: Put social justice on your Seder table...

365 days of crisis. one year after the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, OLAM and SID-Israel joined forces to collate information from many...

As rescuers continue the search for survivors in Turkey and Syria, in the wake of devastating and powerful earthquake and aftershocks, Jewish and Israeli...

The phrase ‘it takes a village’ really came to life for me on my recent trip to Rwanda, where I saw the fruits of several programs that are dependent...

In my community, Rosh Hashanah services are a foot-stomping, hand-clapping affair. The melodies are upbeat. The mood is outright joyful.  Some might find...

I was in the midst of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s of contracts with hotels and vendors for my organization’s annual conference in March...

OLAM partners and other Jewish and Israeli organizations are working to deliver funds, food, medical supplies, psychological support, and other much-needed...

On February 21, 2022, the world lost a giant in the world of global public health. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, was a physician,...

In a world with very few true heroes, Dr. Paul Farmer was a hero of mine. Paul died in his sleep on Feb. 21st, at the much-too-young age of 62, doing what...

In the flood of stories following Paul Farmer’s death, a long-time Partners In Health (PIH) physician shared his own memory, about a sense of helplessness...