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“Next Year in Jerusalem”. This Year, Thanks to You

J-Wire News Service — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:11:57 +0000

Each year, as Yom Kippur ends, we declare together: L’Shanah HaBa’ah B’Yerushalayim. Next year in Jerusalem. For generations, Jerusalem has been a symbol of our shared vision of unity, peace, home, and for the right to live freely and proudly as Jews. With your help, UIA can make it not only memorable but dignified. By […]

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200 Israelis, Jews rescued from northern Ethiopia

JNS — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:37:58 +0000

More than 200 Israelis and Ethiopian Jews were rescued from northern Ethiopia on Thursday afternoon amid ongoing violence, the Prime Minister’s Office and Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced in a joint statement. A total of 174 Israeli citizens and Jews eligible for aliyah visas were evacuated from the besieged city of Gondar, while 30 […]

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Never too late: 101-year-old immigrant celebrates Israeli citizenship

Pesach Benson — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:37:50 +0000

Not many people get the opportunity to write a dramatic new chapter of their lives after reaching 100. But 101-year-old Sandy Goldstein and his wife, Rosalie, have managed to experience a wide range of Israel barely one week after arriving. The emotional scenes of a massive family reunion at the airport. An outpouring of support […]

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One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

Mike Wagenheim - JNS — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 06:19:12 +0000

The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always adequately capture how much of a geographical impact wars have. Diana Bukman, who is now half a world away from a colleague in Ukraine and reconnected in Israel with her ex-husband, knows that all too well. Moving to Israel was what made her first marriage fall apart. Her then-husband […]

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Russia accuses Israel of ‘unconstructive and biased’ stance on Ukraine war

Aryeh Savir - TPS — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:55:37 +0000

The position Israel has demonstrated in recent months in regards to the war in Ukraine “is not helpful” and the issue of the Jewish Agency’s activities in Russia belongs only to the legal level and is not a diplomatic issue, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Speaking to a local TV […]

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Lapid threatening ‘effect on relations’ if Jewish Agency operations in Russia banned

Aryeh Savir - TPS — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:16:06 +0000

Prime Minister Yair Lapid chaired on Sunday a discussion on the activity of the Jewish Agency in Russia after Vladimir Putin’s administration commenced operations to ban the Agency’s activities in the country, threatening that “closing the Jewish Agency offices would be a serious event that would affect relations.” Russia’s Ministry of Justice has requested the […]

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Lapid nominates Ruth Calderon to head Jewish Agency

TPS-IL — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:11:33 +0000

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has nominated Dr Ruth Calderon to be the next head of the Jewish Agency. Dr Calderon is an educator and Talmud scholar who holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2013-2015, she was a Knesset Member from the Yesh Atid Party, […]

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Danny Danon’s quest to lead the Jewish Agency into the future

Israel Kasnett - JNS.org — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:58:09 +0000

Israel Kasnett: The former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations wants to focus on improving relations with the Diaspora, involving the younger generation, drawing more visitors to Israel and alleviating bureaucratic issues with making “aliyah.”

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Leveraging diverse backgrounds, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum seeks to bring unity, cohesion to agency

Eliana Rudee - JNS.org — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:07:06 +0000

Eliana Rudee: A main challenge for the Jewish people is not how everyone prays, it’s the unaffiliated who are our greatest challenge—the disconnected, the apathetic, the disengaged, young Jewish people totally disinterested in their heritage and Israel, says the deputy mayor of Jerusalem.

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President-elect Isaac Herzog bids farewell to Jewish Agency colleagues and participants

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:09:55 +0000

Participants in The Jewish Agency for Israel’s programs under outgoing Chairman of the Executive and President-elect Isaac Herzog’s tenure have farewelled him in a ceremony yesterday in Jerusalem.

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