Diaspora Jewry
“There is a responsibility to include all voices and to reach out to those who may not be there currently, whether it’s an age or generational lack of involvement,” said the head of the Nefesh B’Nefesh Institute for Aliyah Policy and Strategy.
Among the topics covered were similarities between both minorities and their shared history, and how anti-Semitism persists and “is a cousin of racism,” said David Brog, executive director of the Maccabee Task Force.
“All the times we were here as tourists were a lot of fun, but you don’t know what it’s like until you put your skin in here. Once you do that jump of hope, you start seeing life in a new way, through Israeli glasses,” says Shira Denise Kilemnic Mac.
“We gather in Brussels with Jewish leaders from Europe and watch, in front of our eyes, how anti-Semitism continues to grow year after year,” said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association, who placed blame on politicians “who are content with declarations but ignore the real problems of the Jews of Europe.”
Nearly one-third of respondents in Austria, Hungary and Poland say Jews will never be able to fully integrate into society • About one-third in Romania, France and the Czech Republic think secret Jewish network influences political, economic affairs in world.
“We need to recalibrate the way we reach out to young American Jews. We need to reach them where they are on social media with a Zionist message they can understand,” said the former ambassador, one of eight candidates vying to be the next head of the Jewish Agency.
With these latest arrivals, it has sponsored aliyah flights for 1,468 Jewish immigrants from more than a dozen countries so far in 2021.
Hailing from Manipur in the northeast part of the country, they have preserved Jewish traditions across generations.
The French-language show’s new description now refers to the falsely accused Alfred Dreyfus as someone “arrested for spying.”
The prize winners “serve as proof of the important contribution of ‘aliyah’ to the flourishing and success of our country in all walks of life,” says Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata.
So far, 20,360 people have immigrated to Israel, according to data released by Israel’s Aliyah Ministry and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
“I was shocked to hear … senior officials from the former government discussing other communities within the United States as the main relations of the Israeli government,” said Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, referring to former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer on evangelical Christians.
