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immigrants
Donald Trump says anti-Semitic immigrants will be barred under his plan
Jewish Journal
August 16, 2016
Donald Trump said he would test would-be immigrants for anti-Semitic beliefs and that Israel would be a key ally in defeating radical Islam.
The Republican debate’s $10 question
Rob Eshman
September 24, 2015
The easiest question of the second Republican presidential debate turned out to be the hardest: “Which woman would you put on the $10 bill?
Young olim won’t feel alone
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2013
When Avital Avraham, 17, of Sherman Oaks arrived in Israel earlier this month with plans to make aliyah and join the Israel Defense Forces, she said she was “honored that Israel is opening their arms to me even though I wasn’t born here.”
Israel will bring in remaining Ethiopian immigrants
Jewish Journal
July 11, 2012
Israel’s government agreed to expedite the arrival of the final Ethiopian immigrants waiting to come to Israel.
Jerusalem court clears way for S. Sudanese migrants’ deportation
Jewish Journal
June 7, 2012
A Jerusalem court ruled that Israel could deport South Sudanese migrants who entered the country illegally.\n
South Tel Aviv quiet but tense
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2012
South Tel Aviv remained calm but tense Friday after recent violence aimed at African immigrants.
Ten years after the Dolphinarium attack, a turning point for Israel’s Russian-speaking immigrants
Jewish Journal
May 24, 2011
Faina Dorfman, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan hoping that her only child would have a better life here, walks along a stretch of beach just south of a tattered seaside disco called the Dolphinarium. Ten years ago, a young Palestinian detonated a bomb packed with nails and bullets as he stood amid a crowd waiting to be let inside for a night of dancing.
North American immigrants lead in Israel’s nonprofit sector
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2011
When David Portowicz was a new immigrant to Israel from Brooklyn in the 1970s, he began research on poverty in Jaffa that would lead to his life’s work: the creation of a nonprofit organization that now serves thousands of disadvantaged children and their families. A doctoral student in social work at the time, the small NGO he co-founded in 1982, the Jaffa Institute, today is a veritable force of nature with 35 programs and an annual operating budget of $6 million. The institute runs afterschool activity centers to help keep kids off the streets, offers university scholarships for 170 graduates of Jaffa programs, has shelters for runaways and even provides music lessons.
Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel
Jewish Journal
January 18, 2011
More than 335 immigrants from Ethiopia arrived in Israel on a special Jewish Agency charter flight. The Falash Mura, Ethiopians who claim family links to descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity generations ago, arrived Monday and Tuesday on Ethiopian Air Lines charter flights. They are the first Ethiopian immigrants to arrive in Israel since November because of an aviation dispute between Israel and Ethiopia. Israel\’s Cabinet in November approved a plan to bring about 8,000 more Ethiopians to Israel over the next four years.
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