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	Olmert: Jewish Communities in ex-Soviet Union Could Disappear July 7, 2008 By Anshel Pfeffer The Jewish community in the former Soviet Union could disappear in a generation unless assimilation is curbed there, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the weekly cabinet


	PM: FSU Jewry Could Disappear in a Generation July 7, 2008 By HERB KEINON Polyakova Synagogue, MoscowPhoto: Channel 2 There is a real concern that the Jewish community in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), which today is estimated to number some


	New Absorption Minister Doesn't Speak English July 7, 2008 By GIL HOFFMAN Eli Aflalo Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski The cabinet voted on Sunday to approve the appointments of Eli Aflalo as immigrant absorption minister and Ruhama Avraham as


	Sderot Children Attending U.S. Camps July 2, 2008 Children from Sderot will attend Jewish summer camps in North America.


	Summer Wave of Olim-by-Choice Celebrate their Farewell to America July 2, 2008 By Leah Rothstein “The real question is why I didn’t make aliyah 30 years ago…every day felt like a wasted day,” Rabbi David Wadler said. “It was just time.


	Just 8,700 More People and That's it July 2, 2008 By Haaretz Editorial It appears that a stronger prime minister than Ehud Olmert is needed to declare the Ethiopian Jewish immigration over.


	Orthodox Who’s Who Making Israel Home July 2, 2008 By Amy Spiro The Jewish Center’s Rabbi Ari Berman: Bound for Israel — for good Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may have declared the age of mass aliyah over, but aliyah


	Jewish Agency: All Falashmura Eligible for Aliyah Already Here July 2, 2008 By Anshel Pfeffer The Jewish Agency presented the Prime Minister's Office with a report a few days ago showing that all the Falashmura deemed eligible for aliyah in 1999 have either


	Hadassah: WUJS Israel Program Won't Close, Just Moving to Center July 2, 2008 By HAVIV RETTIG The WUJS Arad program will not shut down, but merely relocate from the southern desert town to the Central region, Hadassah spokeswoman Barbara Sofer said on Tuesday.


	Unharmed by Violence but Suffering Economically, Zimbabwe Jews Hold Out July 1, 2008 By Moira Schneider An African Jewish Congress delegation pays a solidarity visit to Zimbabwe at the end of May 2008.


	U.S. Jewish Groups Face Cut-Backs Over Plunging Dollar June 30, 2008 By Anthony Weiss, The Forward Israeli children celebrate the arrival of new immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv in an event organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel (Encho


	Ethiopian Student Battles to Make Aliya June 27, 2008 By Ruth Eglash IDC student Alexander Mulugeta is facing deportation in two weeks. He says he qualifies to make aliya.


	Von Yossi Beilin bis Ehud Olmert June 27, 2008 Editorial von Jacques Ungar Forderung - Erinnern Sie sich, wie vor Jahren der Links-Politiker Yossi Beilin vom gesamten israelisch-jüdischen Establishment fast geteert und


	Jewish Agency Plan to Recruit Hi-Tech Immigrants Draws Immediate Fire June 27, 2008 By Cnaan Liphshiz It was a short grace period for the Jewish Agency's new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010.


	Diaspora 'Crisis' Plan June 26, 2008 by Anshel Pfeffer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a radical rethink of policy in Israel-diaspora relations this week, warning that "a serious crisis" of assimilation and


	Time for a Miracle June 26, 2008 Editorial Ehud Olmert’s stock with the Israeli public has fallen so low these days that virtually anything Olmert says or does is taken to be a cynical ploy to save his job.


	Olmert Calls for New Israel-Diaspora Ties June 26, 2008 By Anthony Weiss Speaking before the organization that has historically linked Diaspora Jews and Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called in late-June for a massive rethinking of the


	Decline of Dollar Forces Agencies To Scale Down Overseas Efforts June 26, 2008 By Anthony Weiss The steady decline of the American dollar is causing financial headaches for American Jewish organizations with overseas operations, forcing some of the most


	Top Orthodox New York Personalities Set to Make Aliya June 26, 2008 By MICHAL LANDO, NEW YORK Rabbi Ari Berman had until June 1 to decide whether he would make Israel his permanent home.


	Gov't Funds for Diaspora Likely Won't Come Till '10 June 26, 2008 By HAVIV RETTIG Israel will only begin investing massively in Diaspora Jewish education - a new initiative announced by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday - in 2010, said Alan