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Robert Bank

Robert Bank is president and CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the world’s leading Jewish organization working to end poverty and promote human rights in the developing world.

Walt Disney employees and demonstrators during a rally against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill at Griffith Park in Glendale, California, March 22, 2022. (Photo/Forward-Alisha Jucevic-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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I was gay and Jewish under apartheid. LGBTQ rights are slipping away in the U.S.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank and Forward June 2, 2022June 2, 2022

Last month, the world lost a transformational giant in the LGBTQ rights movement. Urvashi Vaid was a pioneering social justice activist, attorney and award-winning author. She was also one of my great […]

Members of the neo-Nazi South African group AWB.(Photo/JTA-David Turnley-Corbis-VCG via Getty Images)
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I grew up a white Jew in South Africa. We cannot sit out today’s fight against institutionalized racism.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank June 22, 2020
a bunch of young women on bicycles cheer and pump their fists in the air
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President’s draconian budget undermines Jewish values

Robert Bank by Robert Bank June 2, 2017May 30, 2017

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