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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Jewish Agency and Nefesh B’Nefesh Reach Historic Agreement for Increasing Aliyah from North America
A "one-stop Aliyah shop" has now been created by both organizations to streamline the Aliyah process for North American Olim
Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel have reached a successful conclusion to the...
Response to the Jewish Agency/Nefesh B’Nefesh Agreement
The Jewish Agency for Israel's (JAFI) decision to outsource the entire aliyah operation in North America to Nefesh B'Nefesh, a 6-year-old American group promoting aliyah, is indicative of both the need for change in...
Archiving the struggle: Local Jews begin to document efforts to free Soviet Jews
Issue of August 27th, 2008
When Oscar and Joan Dodek traveled to Moscow in 1978 on a 22-member synagogue mission to meet local Jews, they certainly didn't expect to get arrested by the KGB and...
PA, Germany sign agreement to establish 55 police stations
Palestinian Interior Minister Abd Ar-Razaq Al-Yahya and German Representative to the Palestinian Authority Klaus Burkhardt signed a joint agreement to establish a total 55 new police stations in the West Bank on Thursday.
The agreement...
Report: Iran supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles
Al-Quds al-Arabi reports missiles can accurately hit targets in Israel, weapons to be used by Lebanese organization in event that Israel or US launch attack against Islamic republic
Iran has supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles...
Abie Nathan: A Legacy Of Not Fighting Back When Attacked
Jerusalem - Abie Nathan, who ran the Voice of Peace pirate radio station from the early 1970s until the mid-1990s, died in Tel Aviv at the age of 81 on Wednesday.
While his pacifistic station...
Olmert’s Attempt to Subvert Democratic Process in Talks with Palestinians
"The president of the United States will adopt the wording, the world with adopt it, the European Union, also the Arab world. We can tell the Israeli People that this is what can be...
Rice Condemns Israeli Settlements
Jerusalem - The al-Hayat newspaper, known as the voice of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, reported yesterday Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority, has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to put the...
Abie Nathan’s legacy from the Yom Kippur War
On Yom Kippur 5734 (1973), when planes flew overhead and there were rumors of an impending war on two fronts, we came home from synagogue and listened to the only station that was broadcasting...
Israel Releases 199 Palestinian Convicts
Jerusalem - Yesterday morning, 199 Palestinians convicted of murder or attempted murder were released from prison, as an Israeli gesture to Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
The release became possible after the Israel High Court...
