Federations and Overseas Partners Reach Funding Deal
Jacob Berkman Special to the Jewish Week NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Jewish Federations of North America and its two primary overseas partners have reached an agreement in principle over how to divide the...
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Jacob Berkman JTA JFNA, Jewish Agency, Joint to work around traditional 75-25 split.The New York-based Jewish Federations of North America and its two primary overseas partners have reached an...
View ArticleJames Tisch Elected Jewish Agency Board Chair
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- James Tisch, who has held several key positions in the Jewish world, has been elected as chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel's board of governors.Tisch, 58, the president and...
View ArticleGetting More Jews To Spend Time In Israel
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Shortly after Misha Galperin was hired in March of last year to handle global public affairs and financial resource development for the Jewish Agency for Israel, the...
View ArticleJewish Agency Plans $300M Initiative To Boost Birthright, Teen Programs And...
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor At a time when Jewish organizations that offer Israel youth trips are struggling to compete with the free Birthright Israel experience, the Jewish Agency For...
View ArticleThanksgiving And Chanukah: Two Distinct Holidays
Dr. Misha Galperin As someone who loves to eat and is proud to be an American, I would never be the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving. But I confess. I have not been swept up in the whirlwind excitement...
View ArticleAliyah Up From France, Down From U.S.
JTA Jewish immigration from France to Israel has increased by 49 percent in the first nine months of 2013 compared to last year.read more
View ArticleThe Editor's Desk: War Tests Young Israelis At U.S. Summer Camps
Gary Rosenblatt Editor And Publisher Challenging but rewarding summer for hundreds of emissaries who served here. Each summer the Jewish Agency for Israel sends hundreds of shlichim, or emissaries, to...
View ArticlePushing For Massive French Aliyah
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Minimal investment could spur record immigration from a prosperous country, advocate says. Speaking at the Grand Synagogue in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo and...
View Article29,500 New Immigrants Arrive In Israel Since Last Rosh Hashanah
JTA Jerusalem — Some 29,500 new immigrants arrived in Israel since last Rosh Hashanah, a 13 percent increase over the previous year.read more
View ArticleFinal Group Of Jews From Yemen Airlifted To Israel In Secret Mission
JTA Jerusalem — A group of the last remaining Jews from Yemen arrived in Israel in a secret operation coordinated by the Jewish Agency for Israel.read more
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