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At a meeting on Monday of the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, participants bemoaned the condition of world Jewry. The discussion centered on the implementation of a plan approved earlier this month by the Israeli government to protect Jewish communities abroad from extinction.We are swimming against the current, said Diaspora Affairs Ministry Director-General Dvir Kahana, claiming that 80% of Jews outside of Israel live comfortably and feel no connection to their Judaism.Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevitch concurred that large segments of our nation are moving away from their Jewish identity and from Israel, warning, We have to wake up before its too late.Aside from the fact that the discussion itself is as old as the hills, and that the plan involves education and outreach not exactly an innovative concept it comes on the heels of reports that the COVID-19 pandemic is spurring many Jews to consider immigrating to Israel
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admin | July 25, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) Israels potential annexation of parts of the West Bank may not be a top election issue for American Jews, or even a top issue right now for most Israelis.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Tana GandhiDavid Adjmi, Los Angeles, 2020 To my mothers Syrian Jewish family, I was always half bagel, half baklava, in other words, half Ashkenazi, half Sephardic.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Israel's consul-general in New York, Dani Dayan, will complete his four-year term next week and return home to Israel, even though multiple Foreign Ministry sources revealed to The Jerusalem Post that the process of replacing him has not even begun.Three sources confirmed that Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has not even decided yet whether to appoint a professional diplomat from within the ranks of ministry or an outsider to the key role as the top liaison to the American Jewish leadership, the New York-based media and millions of Jews in five states.The Foreign Ministry's appointments committee will convene next week, but it is the sensitive post as ambassador to Russia that is on the agenda. The committee cannot meet to fill the vacancies in New York, Miami and Ottawa until Ashkenazi makes decisions about what appointments will be political."He is in no hurry," a source close to Ashkenazi who has spoken to him about appointments revealed. "But he will appoint people unquestionably fit for the posts." The coalition agreement gave the Likud the right to appoint the ambassador to the United Nations, United Kingdom, France, Australia and the ambassador in Washington for half the term.
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admin | July 25, 2020
In multiple trips between 2013 and 2017, llan Stavans visited and revisited the Jewish communities in some of his favorite countries: Argentina, Spain and Cuba, as well as Mexico, where he was born and raised. He also went to Israel, where many Latin American Jews have made aliyah
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admin | July 25, 2020
(JTA) Shootings are up in New York City.
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admin | July 25, 2020
As a reader and as a parent, Im committed to reading diverse books for myself, and also providing diverse books of all kinds to my son.
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admin | July 25, 2020
By Joanna OLeary, The Nosher We could all use a little comfort food right now. And while my regular meal of choice when it comes to eating my feelings is a giant piece of layer cake (crowned with a softball scoop of ice cream for good measure), right now I am craving a big pot of cholent. For cholent, necessity was the bubbe of invention, this unctuous stew coming into being as the ultimate edible workaround to Jewish laws prohibiting cooking on the Sabbath.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Customary as it is to have lectures about Tisha Beav during the nine-day period leading up to the day of mourning that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples, plus special events with moral messages on the actual day, Zoom has given rise to a boom in Tisha Beav lectures and conferences. Some organizations and institutions that never previously paid special attention to Tisha Beav, are getting on the Zoom bandwagon, and many people who were not particularly interested, but who have become Zoom addicted for want of other social outlets, are registering for Tisha Beav-oriented events.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Following its years-long effort to fight Holocaust denial on Facebook, the Anti-Defamation League has shifted gears from working with the tech giant in combating hate speech to helping lead a campaign to force change on the worlds largest social media platform. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign was launched in mid-June by a number of U.S.
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