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	Testimony: MDA's Olim Volunteers First to Arrive at Scene of Terror Attack July 17, 2008 Youths attending MDA emergency medicine program were first to answer call on bulldozer attack.


	UJC, Jewish Agency Press Olmert on Conversion Issue July 15, 2008 By Jacob Berkman Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks at the Jewish Agency for Israel’s June 22, 2008 Board of Governors meeting, where members adopted a resolution "to act


	Privatizing Immigration? July 14, 2008 By Anshel Pfeffer A little after 6 AM last Thursday morning, two groups entered the small hall of the Absorption Ministry at Ben-Gurion International Airport's old Terminal 1 building.


	Government's Plan for FSU Aliya Said to be Deeply Flawed July 13, 2008 By HAVIV RETTIG The government initiative seeking to increase aliya from the former Soviet Union and improve Jewish education there - announced last week at the weekly cabinet meeting


	Record-Breaking $10.6 M Allocated to Jewish Federation Agencies July 13, 2008 Up 4% from last year’s distributions It’s been a record-breaking allocations year for Jewish Federation of St.


	Olmert To Jewish Agency: Maybe It’s Time To De-Emphasize Aliyah July 10, 2008 By Hana Levi Julian Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel last month that it is time to put aside the issue of


	Student Program’s Exit Deals New Blow to Arad July 10, 2008 NJ friends of Israeli town lament decision to relocate WUJS By Gil Hoffman The Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey funds several projects in Arad, including the Ethiopian Youth


	Religious Zionist Emissaries to Spread Word July 10, 2008 By ABE SELIG Four hundred religious Zionist emissaries will be sent around the world to promote aliya and love of Israel, all within the framework of Torah and the observance of


	Analysis: Edri was 'Missing Minister' in an Empty Ministry July 9, 2008 By RUTH EGLASH Knesset lawmakers made a small but significant change to the laws governing returning Israelis recently by approving a reduction in the waiting time faced by returning


	Dollar's Slide "Crisis" For Israeli Nonprofits July 9, 2008 By Michele Chabin Camp Koby kids last year. Eighty who attended won't be back this summer because of budget cuts at the camp's foundation.


	Youth Violence Churns Paris District July 8, 2008 By Celestine Bohlen, Bloomberg News When a 17-year-old Jewish boy was beaten unconscious by a gang of black and Arab youths during a balmy June evening on Rue Petit in Paris, residents


	Analyze This: The Aflalo Appointment July 8, 2008 By CALEV BEN-DAVID Eli Aflalo Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski Whatever other qualities he may lack - such as an ability to speak adequate English - no one could argue that newly appointed


	Tough US Economy is Aliya Incentive According to Jewish Agency July 8, 2008 By STEPHANIE RUBENSTEIN With a strong Israeli economy and dropping stock markets in the United States, the North American aliya movement may be on the brink of a new wave of


	Visiting US University Presidents 'Amazed' at High Level of Israeli Research July 7, 2008 By EHUD ZION WALDOKS Presidents of several US universities were impressed with their Israeli counterparts during a trip to Israel last week and have agreed to further cooperative


	Olmert: Jewish Communities in ex-Soviet Union Could Disappear July 7, 2008 By Anshel Pfeffer The Jewish community in the former Soviet Union could disappear in a generation unless assimilation is curbed there, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the weekly cabinet


	PM: FSU Jewry Could Disappear in a Generation July 7, 2008 By HERB KEINON Polyakova Synagogue, MoscowPhoto: Channel 2 There is a real concern that the Jewish community in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), which today is estimated to number some


	New Absorption Minister Doesn't Speak English July 7, 2008 By GIL HOFFMAN Eli Aflalo Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski The cabinet voted on Sunday to approve the appointments of Eli Aflalo as immigrant absorption minister and Ruhama Avraham as


	Sderot Children Attending U.S. Camps July 2, 2008 Children from Sderot will attend Jewish summer camps in North America.


	Summer Wave of Olim-by-Choice Celebrate their Farewell to America July 2, 2008 By Leah Rothstein “The real question is why I didn’t make aliyah 30 years ago…every day felt like a wasted day,” Rabbi David Wadler said. “It was just time.


	Just 8,700 More People and That's it July 2, 2008 By Haaretz Editorial It appears that a stronger prime minister than Ehud Olmert is needed to declare the Ethiopian Jewish immigration over.