This is 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 Russian Immigration to Israel Seen as Success Story
(JTA) — Growing up in the Urals, Pavel Polev was a precocious ice skater and a member of the Soviet Union’s national youth figure-skating team. But in 1992, at age 15, Polev’s life was upended when he joined the massive wave of Jews immigrating to Israel from the crumbling Soviet Union. After serving a mandatory…
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Fast Forward Immigration to Israel Rises by 7% — Led by French
Israel welcomed some 19,200 new immigrants in 2013, with French Jews leading the way. The number of new immigrants in 2013 was a modest increase from the 18, 940 who arrived in 2012, the Jewish Agency for Israel said in a statement. The year 2013 saw a 7 percent increase in aliyah from most countries,…
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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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