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| Global Hunger Shabbat (The Record and Herald News) |
| On Friday night, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., the Lakeland Hills Jewish Center “ along with many other synagogues around the world “ will observe a special service that will serve as a reminder of the problem of world hunger. |
| World Bank computer game invites youth to be creative (video) (Moldova.org) |
| By Zulima Palacio The World Bank Institute, the learning arm of the World Bank, has launched an online computer game called EVOKE, designed to get young people involved in finding solutions to urgent problems like hunger, poverty and education. The winners of the ten week game could be mentored by social innovators and business leaders and win a trip to a conference in Washington DC. This is a ... |
| The World and Fariñas Hunger Strike (Diario Las Americas) |
| News from recent days, perhaps the last few weeks, indicate that there has been a change in the way the European governments see the totalitarian Marxist-Leninist tyranny of brothers Fidel .... |
| Stamford Synaplex Shabbat to examine "Jews & Food Around the World" (Jewish Ledger) |
| STAMFORD - Dr. David Kraemer, author and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, will be scholar-in-residence at Temple Beth El in Stamford for a special Synaplex weekend, March 19 and 20. The Beth El community will join American Jews around the country in observing Global Hunger Shabbat in cooperation with American Jewish World Service. |
| Remembering The Great Hunger (Dorchester Reporter) |
| Ireland’s great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mór) took place in the middle of the 19th century, caused by a blight on the potato crop in the Emerald Isle. Beginning with the harvest of 1846, and lasting for five years, the fungus caused the potato crop to fail, and millions lost their sole source of food. In that first year, 1847, some 400,000 people starved to death, and as ... |
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