News HIAS was poised to spend $300k on Gaza aid. Internal divisions stopped it ‘It’s not easy being a Jewish humanitarian organization at this point in history,’ said Mark Hetfield, the ...

HIAS ’s advocacy for refugees and asylum seekers has also caused significant tension with Donald Trump’s administration, which relies heavily on anti-immigrant sentiment to mobilize its base.

HIAS Greece translator Jalal Barezkai, right, assists a Syrian refugee in an encampment near the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, May 9, 2018.

How does HIAS factor into Pittsburgh’s synagogue shooting? Based on social media posts by an account with the same name as the suspected Pittsburgh shooter, Bowers’s race-based opposition to ...

The year my family came to the United States, HIAS turned a hundred years old. It was founded in 1881 to help Jews fleeing the pogroms in the Russian Empire. In the second half of the twentieth ...

HIAS has an urgent role to play in protecting the Jewish people in this new era. As antisemitism and extremism spread in unexpected places, Jews must have assurances that there are institutions ...

HIAS's quest for relevance -- and volunteers -- has it reaching out to global tired and poor. Skip to main content. Toggle Menu. Join our Community. Support ToI and remove all ads. Learn more.

Still, HIAS CEO Mark Hetfield, in 2014, commanded a salary of more than $318,000, plus $22,000 in benefits. In the eight years of the Obama administration, ...

SIEGEL: HIAS was founded in 1881. I assume that it helped out all of my grandparents, all of them East European Jews who came to this country around 1890 or so.

HIAS, a nonprofit organization founded in the United States in 1881 as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, was created to assist Jews fleeing persecution in Russia and Europe and has a long history ...