Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of aliyah (“ascent”), the practice of diaspora Jews immigrating to Israel, generally facilitated by its Law of Return.
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Fast Forward Economic and Security Concerns Drive Record Levels of French Aliyah
In an overcrowded conference room in the heart of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, a hundred French Jews are losing their patience. They have gathered at the Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel for a lecture on immigrating to Israel, but the agency staff is running behind. Its 20 staffers are coping with a 57…
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Fast Forward Final Planes of Ethiopian Jews Arrive in Israel
The final two charter flights of new immigrants from Ethiopia landed in Israel. The two airplanes carrying the 450 new Israeli citizens arrived Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport. A steady trickle of approximately 200 Ethiopian immigrants per month has been coming to Israel since 2010, when Israel launched Operation Wings of a Dove after checking…
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The Schmooze Happy Tu B’Av: Aliyah Dating Site Launches
Meeting that special someone is hard enough without him or her living halfway across the planet. But Jewish singles planning to make the move to the Holy Land this Tu B’Av can rejoice — the Israel dating scene just got a whole lot closer. Jewish dating site SawYouAtSinai.com has partnered with Nefesh B’Nefesh to create…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Will Lead Aliyah Flight From U.S.
Gilad Shalit will accompany a flight of new immigrants, including 106 children, leaving New York for Israel on Monday. The former captive soldier will be onboard the first chartered El Al aliyah flight of the summer, which will leave John F. Kennedy Airport with 231 new immigrants, including 41 families. A live feed of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Immigration to Israel Dips
Jewish Immigration to Israel registered a two-percent drop last year, a trend bucked by new arrivals from Europe and the former Soviet Union. Overall, Jewish immigration to Israel stood at 18,691 in 2012 compared to 19,289 in 2011, according to an annual analysis by the Jewish Agency for Israel of figures for aliyah, or Jewish…
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Food The Kosher Rachael Ray Heads to Israel
Jamie Geller is often called the “Kosher Rachael Ray.” But she wasn’t always a domestic goddess — or even kosher! After a successful career as a journalist and television producer, Geller got married and realized that she was “a disaster on wheels in the kitchen,” as she says. Since learning her way around a stove,…
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Food Jamie Geller Preps for Aliyah
Celebrity chef Jamie Geller is chronicling her upcoming move to Israel in a series of documentary videos. Geller, a television producer, author and cooking celebrity, is producing with the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah assistance organization a documentary series following her and her family as they prepare to make aliyah and finally land in Israel. She is…
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Israel News Ethiopian-Born Marathoner Runs for Israel
After placing 10th at the Amsterdam marathon last April and becoming the first Israeli athlete to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games, Ethiopian-born Zohar Zemiro was succinct about how he felt: “It is the happiest moment in my life,” the distance runner told the Israeli Athletic Association, which named him its 2011 Athlete of the…
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