104 new soldiers arrive on aliyah flight
A charter aliyah flight brought 360 new immigrants to Israel, including 104 young men and women who have enlisted in the military.
A charter aliyah flight brought 360 new immigrants to Israel, including 104 young men and women who have enlisted in the military.
Temple Kol Tikvah of Woodland Hills avenged three in-season losses to Temple Judea in Tarzana during the Division A final of the Synagogue Softball league on June 26, posting a 22-8 victory over the defending champions.
The Jewish Agency for Israel will now approve Orthodox converts\’ eligibility for aliyah. Israel\’s Interior Ministry announced the change in a letter to the Knesset on Tuesday.
Thomas Dohlan, who converted to Judaism in an Orthodox Canadian beit din, never anticipated that Israel’s Interior Ministry might question his Jewishness and block his bid to make aliyah. But that’s what is happening because of what appears to be a new policy that gives Israel’s Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate, and not the Interior Ministry, the ultimate authority to decide which Orthodox converts are kosher enough for immigration purposes.
Israel reportedly has refused to allow the cousin of singer Barbra Streisand to make aliyah. The Interior Ministry, via The Jewish Agency, rejected Dale Streisand\’s request because it saw on his Facebook page that he had been previously involved in Christian missionary activity, Haaretz reported Thursday.
The Jewish Federations of North America is launching a $5.5 million fundraising campaign for Ethiopian immigration to Israel. The campaign comes at the behest of the Israeli government, which agreed last November to bring up to 7,846 additional Ethiopians to Israel. Like Israel’s commitment, the federation’s campaign comes with an eye toward concluding mass Ethiopian aliyah; it’s called “Completing the Journey.” “It is our privilege and our obligation to help complete this historic aliyah,” Kathy Manning, chairwoman of the Jewish Federations’ board of trustees, said in a statement announcing the campaign. “The government of Israel says it intends to complete the rescue of the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community and has asked the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Agency for Israel to join this historic effort.”\n
The final 1,000 new immigrants for 2010 are arriving in Israel.
A heavy haze thickened the air around the small cluster of prefabricated rectangular buildings, the result of a hot Negev wind forming swirls of dust along the dirt paths of the village. The normally blazing desert sun on this day glowed only dimly from behind a dusty veil.
From New Tang Dynasty TV: \’How does it feel to be both Chinese and Jewish? Our Israeli team talks to a young woman from Kaifeng, China who belongs to both of these ancient cultures.\’
While waiting for Ronnie outside the restaurant, and watching the handsome Israeli valet boys handle their customers with a pseudo-IDF smile, I could not but think to myself, \”Geez, Israel has come a long way in 60 years. Shouldn\’t more Jews enjoy this jewel, especially now?\”