Health care for all in Mali: A Jewish Call to Action with Drs. Ari Johnson and Jessica Beckerman
To address the child and maternal mortality crisis in Mali, Dr. Ari Johnson and Dr. Jessica Beckerman co-found Muso, a non-profit advancing child and maternal health which has developed a new, proactive model of universal health care in Mali. Today, Muso provides health care to more than 370,000 people and the communities it serves have achieved rates of child mortality lower than that of any country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Johnson and Beckerman join Moment Senior Editor George Johnson, who also happens to be Ari’s dad, for a conversation about the health care crisis in Africa and how the couples’ Jewish commitments have motivated and energized their inspirational work.
Groundswell: Hannah Fine on Community Resilience
To properly bless the food you're eating, you have to know how it was grown—whether it came from a tree or the land or a vine. And that's really powerful to me because increasingly we're more disconnected from our food.
The New "New Jew"
By Lily Hoffman Simon
A new kibbutz movement is sweeping Israel. Most often, it is comprised of irbutzim (city kibbutz), which are collectivist structures based on...