Diaspora Jewry
In an unmarked villa, Jews gather for weekly prayers, kosher meals, celebrations and holidays. Those who do not travel on Shabbat can stay in the home’s upstairs living quarters.
“We are proud to open the new year with thousands of new fellows excited to experience Israel firsthand and deepen their connection with the country and its people,” said Masa’s Acting CEO Ofer Gutman.
“We are refining our strategic mission for the coming decade, based on the challenges Jews are facing today,” says Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.
The survey, which was conducted from Sept. 11 to Oct. 6 among 1,283 respondents, also found that these views are consistent across age cohorts, Jewish denominations and political affiliations.
“The interconnections of modern anti-Semitism among Islamists, the far-left and the far-right are patently obvious, and [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel offers no program of action to blunt the rise of this highly dangerous form of Jew-hatred,” said Benjamin Weinthal, fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an analyst of German politics.
His career includes nearly 3,000 at bats, 795 hits, 95 home runs, 397 runs batted in and a lifetime batting average of .268. He now adds member of Team Israel, Israeli citizen and 2020 Olympian to his list of accomplishments.
“We offer our sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the victims killed in the attacks in Halle, Germany, and wish the injured a speedy recovery,” said the U.S. State Department.
“We came back a little prouder of what we do. It sharpened something in our sense of mission,” say Israeli officers who visited American Jewish communities.
“I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a gunman kills two people on the Jewish holiday.
“The prophecy of the vanishing Jew has not come to fruition,” said Leonard Saxe, director of the Steinhardt Center at Brandeis University.
The new immigrants had all made aliyah to Israel with the assistance of the Jewish Agency just two months earlier, as they begin their lives in Israel bringing in the Jewish new year, 5780.
Germany’s Jewish community says Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t deserve the World Jewish Congress’s top award, citing support for Iran nuclear deal and inadequate action on anti-Semitism.
