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An Israeli Interior Ministry official checks the eligibility for aliyah of Ethiopians in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2005.
An Israeli Interior Ministry official checks the eligibility for aliyah of Ethiopians in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2005. (Uriel Heilman)

New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume

By Uriel Heilman · October 14, 2009

After being shut for more than a year, the gates of mass Ethiopian immigration to Israel may be swinging open again for some 9,000 people thanks to support from Israel's new interior minister and a public campaign waged by advocates for Ethiopian aliyah. Read more »

Leipzig becoming Orthodox Jewish hub in Germany

By Ben Harris · November 5, 2009

Due in large part to Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union, Leipzig has become an Orthodox Jewish hub, funneling students from around the region to institutions of Jewish learning in Berlin and beyond. Read more »

German city juggles challenges, benefits of Russian Jewish immigration

By Ben Harris · November 5, 2009

The arrival in Germany of some 90,000 Russian Jewish immigrants over the last 20 years has enabled an astonishing rejuvenation of Jewish life in Germany, but also handed German Jews the challenge of integrating a culturally and linguistically distinct group that generally lacks Jewish knowledge and an understanding of democratic norms. Read more »

Can Jewish tenets be a model for a more eco-friendly world?

By Gil Shefler · November 4, 2009

Jewish representatives to a faith-based climate change conference in Britain argued for eco-friendly measures based on the Jewish tenets of Shabbat, kashrut and shmita. Read more »

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Pasha Segal and Anya Chernyak on their wedding day in Leipzig on Oct. 25, 2009. The pair are one of only a handful of young observant couples in the city. (Ben Harris) Rabbi Joshua Spinner, left, the head of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation's Germany operation, makes the final preparations for the Segal-Chernyak wedding, Oct. 25, 2009. The ceremony was the first marriage of an Orthodox couple in Leipzig in decades. (Ben Harris) Yeshiva students gather in Leipzig for the first Orthodox wedding there since before World War II, Oct. 25, 2009. (Ben Harris) Michael Grunberg showing off Osnabruck's soon-to-be completed synagogue, now under construction, Oct. 18, 2009. (Ben Harris) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, far left, and Prince Philip of Britain, second from left, meet with two representatives of the Jewish delegation to the "Many Heavens, One Earth" environmental conference at Windsor Palace, Nov. 4, 2009. (ARC/Richard Stonehouse) Holocaust memorial in the shape of a weeping willow tree, erected in 1990 in back of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) The Ghetto Heroes monument, erected in Warsaw in 1948 on the site of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, will stand behind the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Inscription at the entrance to the monument at the site of the Belzec death camp in southeastern Poland, where some 500,000 Jews were killed. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Stairs leading down to the Wall of Names section of the vast 5-year-old monument at the site of the Nazi death camp in Belzec, Poland. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Part of the monument at the Paneriai Forest in Vilnius, where tens of thousands were massacred. The site is now a memorial park. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

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  • Pasha Segal and Anya Chernyak on their wedding day in Leipzig on Oct. 25, 2009. The pair are one of only a handful of young observant couples in the city.
  • Rabbi Joshua Spinner, left, the head of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation's Germany operation, makes the final preparations for the Segal-Chernyak wedding, Oct. 25, 2009. The ceremony was the first marriage of an Orthodox couple in Leipzig in decades.
  • Yeshiva students gather in Leipzig for the first Orthodox wedding there since before World War II, Oct. 25, 2009.
  • Michael Grunberg showing off Osnabruck's soon-to-be completed synagogue, now under construction, Oct. 18, 2009.
  • U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, far left, and Prince Philip of Britain, second from left, meet with two representatives of the Jewish delegation to the "Many Heavens, One Earth" environmental conference at Windsor Palace, Nov. 4, 2009.
  • Holocaust memorial in the shape of a weeping willow tree, erected in 1990 in back of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest.
  • The Ghetto Heroes monument, erected in Warsaw in 1948 on the site of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, will stand behind the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
  • Inscription at the entrance to the monument at the site of the Belzec death camp in southeastern Poland, where some 500,000 Jews were killed.
  • Stairs leading down to the Wall of Names section of the vast 5-year-old monument at the site of the Nazi death camp in Belzec, Poland.
  • Part of the monument at the Paneriai Forest in Vilnius, where tens of thousands were massacred. The site is now a memorial park.
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