Media

VE’AHAVTA ‘IN’ THE NEWS

Ve’ahavta often receives media attention for its local and global humanitarian and aid efforts. Here are some recent news articles:

• Fix welfare rules, panel urges province by Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter, in The Toronto Star
• Ex-addict puts poverty behind her by Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter, in The Toronto Star
• Classes to teach life skills to formerly homeless by Cara Stern in The Canadian Jewish News
• “Ve’ahavta donates more than 1,000 school supply kits” by Rita Poliakov in The Canadian Jewish News
• “Mia Farrow to headline Ve’ahavta Event” by Sheri Shefa in The Canadian Jewish News

Ve’ahavta’s team is constantly on the lookout for media and news pieces that highlight important humanitarian and aid work around the world. Below are articles we find of interest and that we believe are worthy of a read:

• “Free in their own country” by Geoffrey Clarfield in The National Post
• “No Holds Barred: Thanksgiving in Zimbabwe” by Shmuley Boteach in The Jerusalem Post
• “Homeless have a much shorter life expectancy, study suggests” by Sheryl Ubelacker in The Globe and Mail

Our archived news items. A little older, but certainly not forgotten:

• “Volunteer Learns About the ‘Jewish Experience’” in Buenos Aires by Shaun Shlomo Feldman in The Canadian Jewish News

The research our medical professionals have done in Guyana has recently been published in a respected professional journal, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The study is called On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach.

The study has since been covered in a variety of popular media outlets:

• “Ve’ahavta helps solve ancient medical mystery” by Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf in The Canadian Jewish News
• “Columbus brought syphilis to Europe, study shows” by Carolyn Abraham in the Globe and Mail
• “New twist on an old scourge” by Tanya Talaga in The Toronto Star
• “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis” by John Noble Wilford in The New York Times
• For your listening pleasure, here is a clip of our Director of Medicine, Michael Silverman, on the CBC program Quirks & Quarks: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/07-08/jan19.html

In the ten years Ve’ahavta has been active, many articles have been written both by us and about us:

• “Cold Comfort” by Wendy Banks
• “A great escape on Centre Island” by Miriam Porter in The Canadian Jewish News
• “Lively and lavish Passover Seder helps 130 of city’s marginalized” by Michele Henry
• “On Bar and Bat Mitzvahs” by Cary Sperling
• “Spurred by Rwanda Genocide, Activist Makes ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ a Mission” by Sheldon Gordon
• “In search of a lost world” by Geoffrey Clarfield
• “Wiesel addresses Ve’ahavta awards ceremony” by Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf