Single olim mingle on flight to Israel
The final charter aliyah flight of the summer, carrying dozens of single Jewish immigrants, landed in Israel. More ▸
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Netanyahu, Cabinet salute olim
By Marcy OsterPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saluted the immigrants that came to Israel from Russia following the fall of the Iron Curtain. More ▸
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Group gives $6 million for FSU projects
The Genesis Philanthropy group is giving the Jewish Agency for Israel $6 million for educational projects in the former Soviet Union. More ▸
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Genesis group gives Jewish Agency $6 million for education projects in FSU
The Genesis Philanthropy Group will give the Jewish Agency for Israel $6 million for educational projects in the former Soviet Union. Genesis, which is made up of several oligarchs from the former Soviet Union, who have committed to building a better Russian speaking Jewish diaspora, will give the money over the next three to four… More ▸
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JDC, Jewish Agency mull more cuts
The blog was quiet yesterday because I was working on this: NEW YORK (JTA) — The North American Jewish federation system’s overseas partners are warning of a brewing financial crisis facing the organized Jewish community in the former Soviet Union. Steven Schwager, the chief executive officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and Irv… More ▸
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Sharansky speaks
New York Jewish Week editor and publisher Gary Rosenblatt got the first lengthy interview with Natan Sharansky, since the ex-Soviet dissident was selected as the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Sharansky, who has turned down numerous interview requests from JTA over the past month, faces a daunting task in assuming the top… More ▸
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Evangelicals’ rabbi wants to know why the Jews aren’t saving FSU Jewry
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which raises about $100 million per year in small donations from evangelical Christians and gives the money to Jewish and Zionist causes, is miffed that the Jewish people are not coming up with more money to help Jews in the former Soviet… More ▸
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Sharansky elected Jewish Agency head
By Marcy OsterNatan Sharansky was unanimously elected to head the Jewish Agency for Israel. More ▸
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Jewish Agency clears way for Sharansky
While publicly taking steps to eliminate the influence politicians may wield in the Jewish Agency for Israel, the agency also cleared the way for a new chairman — the choice of Israel’s prime minister. More ▸
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As Jewish Agency gets set to reform, Steinhardt and Nevzlin speak out
The public politicking over the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency has picked up today, as the organization’s board of governors meetings get underway. The agency has been caught in the crossfire between Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who essentially wants to appoint his political ally Natan Sharansky as its head, and U.S. Jewish philanthropists who want… More ▸
