Federations across the United States are being asked to send an emergency advance of $60 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel. The Jewish Agency is reeling under a mountain of debt, which officials blame on the cost of the mass exodus of Jews to Israel during the last 10 years from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.
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