WFJ July/August 2006
ICEJ nears threshold of 100,000 Jews helped home
By Mikhail Nemirovskii
Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants Are Moving to Israel from the USA.
By Michele Chabin
New organization encouraging students at Israeli yeshivas to make their move permanent.
By Haim Shapiro
From Sunday, immigrants from countries such as the US and Canada are getting the same Immigrant Absorption Ministry grant as those who are considered less fortunate.
By Jenny Hazan
The Jewish Agency declared what it called a Jewish demographic emergency
Monday as leading authorities in the fields of demography and policy
planning gathered in Jerusalem's Inbal Hotel to discuss population trends,
assimilation and the future of the Jewish people.
By Tovah Lazaroff Despite a recent slowdown in immigration to Israel, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said that as long as Israel absorbs a million more Jews in the next
decade, he anticipates that by 2020, half of world Jewry would live in the
Jewish state.
Arutz Sheva Israel What will it take to get Jews in North America to realize that Israel is their home? Various approaches to precisely this question were discussed at the Second Aloh Na'aleh Conference on Aliyah, held yesterday afternoon in Jerusalem.
By Tovah Lazaroff Some 400 immigrants from the United States and Canada, the largest ever from North America, landed Tuesday morning at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
By Melissa Radler The threat of terror and the economic crisis notwithstanding, 400 North Americans are scheduled to arrive here on aliya on Tuesday - citing Zionism, religion and September 11 as their motivation.
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