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Featured Stories 2011 - 2012 |
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The Featured Stories archive takes you behind the scenes to meet the people benefiting from Jewish Agency programs. Find out about an Ethiopian immigrant whose participation in Jewish Agency’s Sparks of Science program has opened up a whole new world for her, a world that will give her the scholastic ability and the self-esteem necessary to advance in today's science and technology fields. Read about high school students who join the Jewish Agency Naale program and become productive Israeli citizens, giving back to the country that has already given them so much. |
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May 18, 2012 / 26 Iyar 5772 High School Pupils from the Abrams Hebrew Academy in Yardley, PA in Bucks County near Philadelphia visited an ancient burial cave under a house on Midbar Sinai Street in | | | | ![]() Because They are Kids Like Me
May 6, 2012 / 14 Iyar 5772 When speaking about his Torah portion, Korah, Evan Viroslav from San Antonio described the gratitude the People of Israel had for what God had granted them. | | | |  Tower of Babel, TLV: Language Exchange
May 6, 2012 / 14 Iyar 5772 Can learning a new language be social…and free? You betcha. | | | |  Ramat Hadassah Students Raise Money for Youth at Risk
May 6, 2012 / 14 Iyar 5772 Ramat Hadassah Youth Village students Seniors raised money for the "Elem" association, which helps Israeli children at risk. | | | |  The Global Jewish Family Reuniting in Safed, Israel
April 25. 2012 / 3 Iyar 5772 On 23 April, a mission from Temple Israel in Bloomfield, Michigan visited three Jewish Agency Absorption Centers in Safed. | | | | ![]() Israel Celebrates 64
| | | |  Memorial Day, 2012
Natan Sharansky, Chair of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel, addresses an audience of thousands at last night's Masa Israel Journey ceremony to remember Israel's fallen soldiers and | | | |  1000 Participants in Limmud FSU Moscow
April 18, 2012 / 26 Nissan 5772 The Seventh Limmud FSU conference for Russian-speaking Jews is taking place in the Klyzma resort hotel near Moscow, from 19 to 22 April. | | | |  Remembering the Exodus
April 6, 2012 / Nissan 5722 Shalom and warm greetings, It's no coincidence that the first time the "Nation of Israel" is mentioned in our ancient texts, it is in the context of our Exodus from Egypt. | | | | ![]() The Jewish People Policy Institute recommends: Israel must take responsibility for the fate of children of Yordim
March 27, 2012 / 4 Nissan 5772 Parents should have absentee voting rights for the first four years abroad A new policy paper by The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) urges the Government of | | | |  Ethiopia: Baking Matzah for Pesach
Click here to watch the Presentation of Matzah-Baking for Pesach March 26, 2012 / 3 Nissan 5772 Baking matzah in preparation for this Pesach got off to a good start on 13 March 2012, in Ethiopia. | | | | ![]() Shooting Attack in France
March 20, 2012 / Adar 25, 5772 Rabbi Jonathan Sandler (29), his two sons – Aryeh (6) and Gabriel (3) – and Miriam Monsonego (8), daughter of school headmaster Rabbi Yaacov Monsonego, were killed on | | | |  Nitzana Welcomes Eritrean Refugees
March 13, 2012 / 19 Adar 5772 Nitzana, the Jewish Agency’s educational community in southern Israel, opened its doors to Eritrean refugee children in May of 2011. | | | | ![]() Ben’s Mitzvah
February 22, 2012 / 29 Shvat 5772 Ben Levine, an American teenager, who raised funds for the purchase of sports equipment for immigrant children from Ethiopia came this week to donate. | | | |  Post-Taglit
February 16, 2012 / 23 Shvat 5772 One freezing Saint Petersburg weekend in February 2012 was warmed by a Post-Taglit event. | | | |  New York City Council Members Visit Jewish Agency Immigrant Absorption Center in Safed
February 14, 2012 / 21 Shvat 5772 A delegation comprised of members of the New York City Council visited the Jewish Agency immigrant absorption center in the northern Israel city of Safed (Tzfat) | | | |  Rabbi Dr. Julius Berman Lectures at Limmud FSU
January 1, 2012 / 6 Tevet 5722 In his talk to the participants in the Limmud FSU summit Rabbi Dr. | | | |  Global Summit of Limmud FSU Leaders in Jerusalem
December 19, 2011 / 23 Kislev 5772 More than 40 Russian-speaking leaders of Limmud FSU coming from Russia, Ukraine, USA, Belarus, Moldova, and Israel participated in a four-day conference which | | | |  Play Ball
December 8, 2011 / 8 Kislev 5772 My name is Alex Willick and I'm 24 years old. I was born in New York City, and I attended Colgate University in New York, where I studied philosophy and music. | | | |  Over 600 participants in Limmud FSU Odessa
November 7, 2011 / 10 Cheshvan 5772 A Limmud FSU Conference took place for young Russian-speaking Jews in Odessa, Ukraine, from October 31 to November 2, 2011. | | | | ![]() Welcome Home Gilad: Send Your Blessings and Best Wishes
October 18, 2011 / 20 Tishrei 5772 His capture shocked the State of Israel: One of us, a young man, only 20 years old, pictured while wearing large glasses and in a uniform a bit too large. | | | | ![]() The Start Up Nation
August 16, 2011 / 16 Av 5771 Normally, when speaking before a crowd of Americans, a Jewish Agency representative makes a crucial case for the Jewish future, and for Israel’s place in that future. | | | |  “A Russian Novel.” Fiction Becomes Fact
June 23, 2011 / 21 Sivan 5771 Seventy years after the onset of “Operation Barbarossa” when Nazi Germany launched its unpremeditated attackh on the Soviet Union, bringing in its wake the death of | | | |  Letters from Ukraine (4)
Israeli Cultural Center in Kiev. | | | |  Letters from Ukraine (3)
Yuval Rabin gives a gift to a Holocaust survivor. | | | |  Letters from Ukraine (2)
Yossi Peled standing on the remains of Hitler's bunker, Vinnitsa. | | | |  Letters from Ukraine (1)
The entrance to the Jewish cemetery Ivankov, Ukraine. | | | |  Press Conference, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 17 June 2011
June 19, 2011 / 17 Sivan 5771 “Limmud – Learning about the Past, Living the Present for the Sake of the Future. | | | |  Aiding Aida
June 9, 2011 / 7 Sivan 5771 Young new immigrants from Arad absorption center star in international operatic production from Masada The Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi would never have | | | |  Masa Celebrates End of Program Year
Israeli performance group Mayumana performs May 26, 2011 / 22 Iyar 5771 Navy blue Young Judaea shirts adorned with patches mixed with green Netzer Olami t-shirts and white Oranim polos as hundreds |
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