B'nai B'rith International

Janine Zimbler, president of B’nai B’rith Australia and New Zealand, reflects on her experiences as part of B’nai B’rith International’s recent Latin American Mission, having visited Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo.

“Finding myself part of a process that advocates on behalf of our Jewish family on the other side of the world was a deeply meaningful and spiritual experience.”

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B'nai B'rith ANZ President Reflects on Latin American Mission Where countries don’t have an organised Jewish community, B’nai B’rith leads missions to ensure that their concerns reach the highest levels.

Ilan Shchori of Tel Aviv was elected Senior Vice President of B’nai B’rith International by its Board of Governors, with a portfolio that includes being the lead B’nai B’rith historian.

Shchori, who has long been active in B’nai B’rith, is a historian who has specialized in the history of Tel Aviv, about which he has written a book.

In this leadership position, Shchori will focus on enriching B’nai B’rith’s efforts to share our distinguished history and strengthen our ties with Jewish communities around the world.

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Ilan Shchori Elected B’nai B’rith International Senior Vice President - B’nai B’rith International Ilan Shchori was elected Senior Vice President of B’nai B’rith, with a portfolio that includes being the organization's lead historian.

On June 1–2, 1941, during Shavuot, more than 180 Iraqi Jews were murdered in Baghdad and Basra in the anti-Semitic, Nazi-inspired ‘Farhud’ pogrom.

This often forgotten massacre marked the beginning of the end for Iraq’s 2,500-year-old Jewish community and accelerated the end of 2,000 years of coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Iraq.

We were so proud to be part of this year’s Israel Day on Fifth in New York City! 🇮🇱🇺🇸

At a time of surging anti-Semitism, it’s more important than ever to come together in support of the Jewish state.

Thank you to everyone who came out to march for Israel and stand with the Jewish people!

Am Yisrael Chai! עם ישראל חי 💙🤍


Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐫: 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬

For over 50 years, B’nai B’rith has been an advocate for older Americans, maintaining and enhancing its network of subsidized housing for seniors across the country, and supporting training for board members and personnel who run the buildings.

Working with our members and supporters, our senior advocacy work advances B’nai B’rith’s agenda on issues including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, funding for the aging services network and any federal programs that impact their quality of life—to policymakers in Washington, D.C. and nationwide.

📸 Photo description: Residents of Gerd & Inge Strauss B'nai B'rith Manor On Pantano, a B’nai B’rith residence in Tucson, Arizona.

With 35 properties in 27 communities, B’nai B’rith began its partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over 55 years ago to become the largest national Jewish sponsor of subsidized housing in the United States.

National Museum of American Jewish History

The reported expulsion of two Jewish women from a spa in Barcelona because they were wearing Stars of David is the latest appalling and unacceptable incident of normalized in everyday life.

No one should face discrimination, harassment and expulsion because of their faith. We condemn this anti-Semitism and stand with those targeted with hate for being Jewish.

Two Jewish women pushed out of Spanish spa, allegedly after staffers see Star of David necklace in disturbing video Two Jewish women were pushed out of a Spanish spa as staffers screamed at them after an employee saw their Star of David necklace.

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬: 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚


B’nai B’rith’s disaster relief program dates to the 19th century, and we continue today to aid those suffering in the wake of natural and man-made disasters:

1995—Donated $500,000 to victims affected by the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK.

2001—Raised $150,000 for victims of the September 11 attacks.

2005—Raised $1.1 million for Gulf Coast hurricane survivors in the United States.

2006—B’nai B’rith President Joel S. Kaplan brought our international policy conference to New Orleans, LA, to stand with a city still reeling from Hurricane Katrina—giving attendees a firsthand look at the rebuilding and recovery projects we sponsored.

2013—Directed donations from the B’nai B’rith Disaster Relief Fund to One Fund Boston, the charity supporting survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing.

2020–2021—Provided thousands of COVID-19 relief kits nationwide, with our community coordinators donating them on behalf of B’nai B’rith International to local agencies dedicated to serving their communities. These kits continued our global COVID-19 relief work, which launched in March 2020 with donations of face shields and food aid to people in need.



📸 Photo description: After devastating floods hit Houston in 2016, B’nai B’rith donated $5,000 to the Goldberg Montessori School for the replacement of musical instruments and supplies. Texas resident and future B’nai B’rith President Charles O. Kaufman (second from right) presents the check.

We deplore in the strongest terms the U.N. secretary-general’s office including Israel on a list of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict, alongside foremost jihadist groups and regimes that actually are guilty of incomparable, intentional and systemic such atrocities. This inclusion and equation would represent a lie and a libel, one inflicting unpardonable harm not only on Israel and on efforts at peacemaking, but on the U.N.

Israel, despite its ceaselessly threatening environment, is the sole Middle Eastern country that upholds a humane democracy’s human rights standards, particularly including gender equality. U.N. tarnishing of such a country and its entire corps of civil servants and vital defense personnel—on account of partisan political motivations and overt double standards—must not be allowed to pass.

Israel cuts ties with UN chief for adding IDF to war-zone sexual violence blacklist Foreign Ministry fumes over 'shameful' decision to place Israel on same list as Hamas, accuses Guterres of 'exploiting his final months' on job to fabricate accusations

B’nai B’rith has launched the Daniel S. Mariaschin Institute for Leadership and Public Policy, named in honor of our retiring CEO, whose decades of leadership have shaped our global voice on human rights, diplomacy and Jewish communal advocacy.

During a gala tribute in his honor, Mariaschin reflected: “I am particularly grateful to B’nai B’rith, its officers, board members, colleagues and friends, for the special tribute on the occasion of my retirement. It has given Michal and me an opportunity to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ in person, for the privilege of working at B’nai B’rith for 38 years and leading it for 27.”

He added: “Thank you for giving a guy from a tiny Jewish community in New Hampshire the tremendous opportunity to serve…the Jewish people writ large.”

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