Weekly News Brief: 4/26/2017
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on the recent chemical weapons attacks in Syria, parliamentary elections in… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on the recent chemical weapons attacks in Syria, parliamentary elections in… Read more…
I was fifteen when I was told I was not “Jewish enough” for the first time. I went on a two week Jewish youth trip to Poland and Israel. The… Read more…
In honor of Kayla Mueller, a beautiful soul taken from us too soon. Our partner Students Organize for Syria is collecting donations in Kayla’s name for their medical drive to support the Syrian… Read more…
On Tuesday April 3, 2017, 86+ civilians were killed in a chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib. While STAND has issued statements [1] condemning the attack and mourning the civilians… Read more…
I am at once intensely critical and hopelessly idealistic, which is why it surprises me sometimes that I grew to love STAND as much as I do. I was incredibly… Read more…
On August 7, 2014, President Obama gave a speech announcing a new military intervention in Iraq, a response to the violence being perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and… Read more…
“Many of the crises our nation faces do not have military solutions alone — from confronting violent extremist groups like ISIS in the Middle East and North Africa to preventing… Read more…
Content Warning: this blog post contains potentially-triggering language and discussion of sexual and gender-based violence. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, once termed “the rape capital of the world,” has… Read more…
In mid-December, dozens of Terre Haute, Indiana community members filed into the CANDLES Holocaust Museum to watch a movie. It’s not your typical movie night in Terre Haute, because on… Read more…
A few weeks ago, then-President-Elect Trump’s transition team offered the first inklings of a troubling, if unsurprising, attitude towards international aid. A four-page questionnaire circulated by the administration probed the… Read more…