The Jewish Dimension of Refugee Resettlement: Welcoming and Integrating the Stranger

Publication Date: September 1998

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Gloria S. Blumenthal

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Ethics; Jewish Organizations; Immigration

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Jewish tradition prescribes just, caring, and loving behavior toward the newcomer making the Jewish dimension of resettlement clear and complex at the same time. To treat newcomers as citizens means teaching them about their new homeland but to love them requires learning about them, their background and aspirations. They will need to change but so will we as we welcome them to be part of us.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.1, Fall 1998.