On Friday, April 21st, 2023, HIAS Pennsylvania hosted an online information session for landlords and property managers interested in partnering with Philadelphia-area refugee resettlement agencies. Watch the video to learn more about the process of renting to newly arrived refugees.
a teenager, ripped from her homeland, who has never stopped using her art and her voice to bravely advocate for Afghan girls and women.
a stalwart pro bono partner whose attorneys and staff responded immediately to the Afghan crisis, providing representation to many Afghan clients in their asylum, humanitarian parole, and family reunification matters.
RESA RUDNEY AWARD HONOREE
The inaugural Resa Rudney Award, bestowed for extraordinary community support.
Mishkan Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue and St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church are the epitome of welcoming the stranger and showing what makes Philadelphia a welcoming community.
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“The decline in immigration is one of the primary factors contributing to our current labor shortage.”
On Monday, April 3rd, 2023, Cathryn Miller Wilson, Executive Director of HIAS Pennsylvania, joined with Sarah Steltz, from The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, and Shaloo Jose, a HIAS PA legal team staffer who was caught in the struggle for more than a decade, to learn about work authorization from a business, political, and personal perspective.
Links shared during the event:
https://hiaspa.org/
(215) 832-0900
https://chamberphl.com/
https://www.inclusivegrowthphl.org/
Learn more about Driving PA Forward and House Bill 769 here: https://www.drivingpaforward.org/
More information on the current bill in PA Statehouse – Drivers License for All: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/BillInfo.cfm?syear=2023&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=769
Learn more about how to advocate for driver’s licenses for all here: https://hiaspa.org/advocate
If you have further questions, please email our Development and Communications Associate, Becca Weber, at rweber@hiaspa.org.
On Monday, January 16th, 2023, at HIAS PA’s Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Advocacy and Action, a panel from Philadelphia-area immigrant-serving organizations discussed what our welcoming community is doing in response to the buses of migrants being sent from Texas to Philadelphia.
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We’d like to thank Comcast for their support, including their support of the City of Philadelphia’s Welcoming Fund.
The 2022 Pennsylvania Senatorial debate highlighted the ramped-up inflammatory anti-immigration rhetoric that gets weaponized during every election cycle.
Watch our virtual discussion with Charles D. Ellison of WURD and Nick Gourevitch from Global Strategy Group as we cut through the noise and discuss political polling, how polls and media reports inform campaign strategy, and, ultimately, their effect on public perceptions about immigration.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our June 2022 advocacy event commemorating the SS St. Louis!
We were honored to have grandchildren and other descendants of SS St. Louis passengers in attendance. A special thank you to Dr. Paul Finkelman of Gratz College for sharing his expertise about the events leading up to the “Voyage of the Doomed”.
This program was generously supported by Dveera Segal & Bradley Bridge.
Register here for his upcoming four-part online continuing education course through Gratz College, “Jews and Slavery: A Long and Complicated History”. CLE credits are available.
Hear from our Executive Director, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, who has provided a briefing about the global impact of the three worldwide displacement crises in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Haiti. Hear also about what HIAS PA is doing and not doing, why, and learn how you can help.
HIAS Pennsylvania’s Executive Director, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, discusses immigrants in detention with HIAS PA’s Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow, Matt Egler DiFerdinando.
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Join us ONLINE at 6:45PM TONIGHT, Thursday, April 20th, for HIAS PA's 2023 Golden Door Awards: United for Immigrants!
HIAS Pennsylvania will be closed in observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover from 1PM on Wednesday, April 5th through Friday, April 7th, and on Wednesday, April 12th and Thursday, April 13th.
The Golden Door Awards is HIAS Pennsylvania's annual fundraiser. Your generous support helps us serve low-income immigrants from all over the world as they build new lives in our community.
Thankful Together, formerly known as Refugee Thanksgiving, is happening TONIGHT at 6PM!
Register here to join us tonight: https://hiaspa1.wpengine.com/event/thankful-together-2021/
Click here to join our virtual Annual Meeting!
The Annual Meeting starts at noon, but join us at 11:45AM for an informal chat before the event!
