Jewish Agency insiders in the United States are using the term "catastrophic" to describe the recent controversy over a Hebrew-language television advertisement that ran in Israel only to be withdrawn by the organization after some Diaspora Jews called it offensive. The ad, which featured dark skies, foreboding trains and missing persons signs bearing the names… More ▸
The Jewish Agency, which caught heat last week for the MASA ad campaign that painted intermarried Jews as lost, issued this press release today saying that the decision to withdraw the campaign was that of its new chairman, Natan Sharansky. Here’s the release: Further to a directive by Jewish Agency Chairman,Natan Sharansky, the PR… More ▸
Following a burst of criticism, an organization founded and funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli government dropped a television ad warning Israelis about the dangers of assimilation in the Diaspora. More ▸
The final charter aliyah flight of the summer, carrying dozens of single Jewish immigrants, landed in Israel. More ▸
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saluted the immigrants that came to Israel from Russia following the fall of the Iron Curtain. More ▸
The Genesis Philanthropy group is giving the Jewish Agency for Israel $6 million for educational projects in the former Soviet Union. More ▸
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 ▸
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 ▸
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 ▸
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 ▸
