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In provocative move, Russia orders Jewish Agency to cease work and remove staff from country, Russian media reports

Immigration from Russia to Israel, which will no longer be possible to do from Russia but can still be done from Israel, more than doubled in 2022.

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 21, 2022 10:28 am

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How Israel’s Falash Mura immigration from Ethiopia became a painful 30-year saga, with no end in sight

With rules that guarantee the separation of families, Israeli governments have kept alive a humanitarian issue they repeatedly said they’d solved.

June 14, 2022 11:53 am

After decades of waiting, 300 of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura to leave for Israel this week

“I have been waiting to leave because this is not my home,” Kefale Tayachew Damtie, a father of six whose family is bound for Israel, told JTA.

May 31, 2022 5:46 pm

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on February 18, 2019. Herzog believes that it's still possible to bridge between Israeli and American Jews. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Isaac Herzog, former Labor leader, to be Israel’s next president

By Philissa Cramer June 2, 2021 9:17 am

Jews may not be able to visit the Western Wall — but they can still have their prayers placed there

By Marcy Oster September 23, 2020 2:09 pm

250,000 new immigrants will arrive in Israel in next 5 years, Jewish Agency estimates

By Marcy Oster August 17, 2020 2:54 pm

Jewish Agency releases numbers of Jewish coronavirus deaths from countries around the world

By Marcy Oster July 9, 2020 1:47 pm

Global Jewish leaders meet in videoconference to address community needs after coronavirus

By Marcy Oster May 26, 2020 2:58 pm

Matisyahu, Ben Platt and Joshua Malina to appear on virtual Israeli Independence Day celebration

By Marcy Oster April 27, 2020 10:12 am

The gable of the main synagogue in Milan, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish groups launch $10 million interest-free loan fund to help communities struggling with coronavirus

By Marcy Oster April 23, 2020 12:08 pm

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