HIAS and Council Needs Our Help Welcoming the Stranger

Many of our grandparents or great-grandparents were helped when they first came to America by HIAS-the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.   HIAS and Council was founded over 125 years ago to help Jewish immigrants and refugees fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity in America.   The agency has literally helped tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants adjust to their new life in America. In the 1930s and 40s, HIAS and Council again helped tens of thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, and then in the 1990s helped resettle tens of thousands of families from the FSU. Today, HIAS and Council is continuing its mission by representing immigrants, resettling refugees, and reuniting families.  It is currently helping to resettle refugee families fleeing oppression in Burma (Myanmar).

Want to help a refugee family?  Please contact the MLRT coordinator Resa Rudney at 610-668-9058.  See links below for possible volunteer activities and donation items needed.