Sentences with phrase «immigrant aid society»

Asked to write a memoir for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Ilya Somin shared the results with us; it's well worth your time to read.

Eugenia Brin explained that in 1979 the Brin family, from Russia, was deciding between Israel and the United States, and an organization called the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society helped them with their move to Maryland.

«Traditionally, West Rogers Park in Chicago was the port of entry,» said Howard Cohen, assistant administrator for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

When children began arriving at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, immigrant aid societies, churches, synagogues, and private citizens provided care and guardianship.

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«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

The pioneering program was known as the German Immigrants» Society, the predecessor to the Legal Aid Society of New York which is still in operation today.

Included in this group are migrant worker assistance organizations, immigrant services, farm workers, and domestic workers organizations, labour and human rights lawyers, unions, labour and social policy researchers, university professors, employment and labour relations specialists, child and youth welfare advocates, and legal aid societies.