Jewish Agency for Israel
With a population of some 15,000, Rome is home to the oldest Jewish community in the world, making them especially vulnerable to this particular disease.
With an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks in the United States and elsewhere, individuals and organizations work to help secure Jewish institutions and teach skills to those who protect them.
Over the course of 90 years, the Jewish Agency has worked to build a bilateral connection between Jews and Israel, and to strengthen the relationship between Jews with Israel at its center.
More than 255,000 new immigrants from 150 different countries moved to Israel in the last decade.
Its Amigour subsidiary also sent construction teams to repair homes hit by rocket fire, in coordination with Israel’s Ministry of Finance.
“In this place, thousands of Jews prayed. ... These walls speak of emotions, telling the story of a community that turned to ashes, and stood up again and was revived,” said Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg of the Central Orthodox Synagogue of Berlin.
“What happened after the attack is testimony to the resilience of the Jewish community, as well as the community at large. We remember and repair together,” said Pittsburgh community leader and chair of United Israel Appeal Cindy Shapira.
“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 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.
Announcing his retirement a year in advance, founding director Avinoam Bar-Yosef will step down in October 2020 after 18 years at the Jerusalem-based think tank and institute.
“We thought that restrictions on the practice of religion belonged to Europe’s history, not to its present and even less so to its future,” wrote Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.
“Aliyah” from the United States has remained stable, while French immigration has dropped 21 percent.
