Diaspora Jewry
Where there were once 150 synagogues in Budapest, there are now fewer than two dozen; however, efforts in the past decade to foster a resurgence in Jewish life have proven successful.
The number of Jews in Israel has reached nearly 6.9 million.
Israel’s Minister of Intelligence believes his ability to understand people from many backgrounds gives him an edge over other candidates. But can he bridge the deep chasm that exists between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry?
“Each of us has the privilege to chart our own individual course, and yet at the same time, we depend on each other,” says Isaac Herzog in a special holiday message.
“This regime will soon collapse, and we, the patriots of Iran, have a responsibility to reach out to Israel,” said Khosrow Beitollahi, one of the hundreds of Iranian non-Jewish activists in the United States who are openly supporting Israel.
Jerusalem Affairs Ministry director general calls the ceremony a “lesson for life about perseverance and devotion to the Jewish tradition.”
The positions of political parties on Jewish German life and Israel read well on paper, as they also did in person at a pro-Israel rally in May at the Brandenburg Gate, where all parties (aside from the excluded AfD) sounded unusually strong pro-Israel rhetoric.
Once enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, the new olim become part of the Friends of the IDF Lone Soldiers Program, which cares for some 3,500 soldiers from around the world currently in active service.
Advocates for the family of the Jewish woman killed in Paris by her Muslim neighbor are seeking the killer’s prosecution in Israel after he was found unfit to stand trial in France.
“Difficult chapters in Polish-Jewish history are discussed, including the Holocaust and the anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Communist authorities in March 1968,” said the POLIN museum.
He most recently served as Israel’s Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services, and as a Labor Party Knesset member.
“Jackie Mason was in a league of his own,” said the 50-year-old comedian. “I don’t care how decent some other guys are today, there will never be anyone like him.”
