The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is offering up to $1 million from its endowment fund to help local Jewish federations across the United States meet the costs of resettling Jews from the former Soviet Union. The federations get federal funds to help pay the costs of resettlement based on the number of arrivals from the former Soviet Union, but a sharp reduction in those numbers has strained the budgets of many local federations.
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