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News Jewish Agency official says yearlong search for leader didn’t undermine the prestige of the organization
‘I like to think that the role will be worth the wait,’ Dan Elbaum, head of the Jewish Agency in North America, said of Doron Almog’s appointment
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Community Why I’m Not Going to College This Year
I just graduated high school with perfect grades, an acceptance letter to my number one university, and what I thought was a sense of what I wanted to do with my life. Yet, to the surprise of many, I am not attending college this year. While my friends were choosing their classes and buying textbooks,…
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Life A Peace Process… for Birthright and MASA
Peace might be just around the corner. Peace in the Jewish communal world, that is. According to Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, while world leaders are talking about promoting the peace process, he is in fact engaged in such a process. The peace Sharansky was speaking about, during a brunch reception…
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Opinion ‘Lost’ In Plain Sight: An Israeli Plan To Rescue American Jews
One of the most spectacularly knuckle-headed advertising campaigns in modern Jewish history was unveiled in Israel September 2 by an international organization devoted to strengthening Diaspora Jews’ attachment to Israel. The organization, Masa (“Journey”), promotes long-term gap-year and junior-year study programs in Israel for Diaspora young adults. Its latest recruitment strategy involves a new Hebrew-language…
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