Tag: Natan Sharansky

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky is spending this week meeting with Jews and non-Jews in Africa.

Aliyah from Brazil increased significantly, with the arrival of some 760 new immigrants this year, compared with 497 in 2015.

A new Global School Twinning Network project of The Jewish Agency for Israel was launched this week.

Sharansky, visiting Brazil: “The Brazilian Jewish community is a warm, Zionist community with strong ties to Israel.”

The AG is obviously feeling that he can't go to battle against a clear Supreme Court ruling to demolish Amona.

"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"

"I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they're not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world."

Sharansky: “This is the single greatest expression of the Jewish people’s solidarity with French Jewry.”

The food co-ops operate as social business ventures, offering consumers significantly less expensive groceries and investing profits in local social empowerment initiatives.

During the day, an exhibition titled "Stripes, Stars and Magen David" will be launched in the Knesset's Chagall Hall.

Kasich avoided stock promises at AIPAC but recognized neighborhood dangers and common values with Israel

Benny Gantz and Natan Sharansky join this year's Jerusalem Unity Award nominations committee.

Arab MK Ayman Odeh on Thursday refused to enter a meeting with Jews in New York because the same office building also houses Zionist organizations.

The Jewish Agency is calling for establishment of special Diaspora conversion courts.

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky expresses his firm support for Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky hails report by UK parliamentarians, effort to battle anti-Semitism in Britain as "important step."

French Jewry is the largest new immigrant wave to Israel; figures more than doubled in 2014 and 10,000 new immigrants are expected in 2015.

Aliyah was up by 32 percent compared with 2013.

More than 1,000 high school seniors from 25 Jewish schools across France will light the Hanukkah menorah together on Thursday in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency chairman...

ADL reports big jump in anti-Israel campus activity, other experts say it's far greater than the report states.

Sharansky admits that non-practicing Jews likely to assimilate, says Israel "only way" to keep connection to Judaism

Fighting in Ukrainian city prevents Jews from leaving; Jewish Agency steps of to help

An Israeli company should make “Arafat's Dead Sea Tonic” with this warning: “may cause severe vomiting or even death.”

The Women of the Wall still have an uphill fight ahead of themselves.

The Jewish Agency said it would offer immediate emergency assistance to Ukraine’s Jewish community and will help secure the country’s Jewish institutions. Saturday evening’s announcement...

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, described how the Jewish youth movement BBYO helped to shape her. Sandberg, also the author of the best-seller...

Natan Sharansky joined the parents and spouses of political prisoners in asking the U.S. Congress to speak of their loved ones during meetings with...

In a display of the changes the group has experienced this year, Women of the Wall held a peaceful prayer service under police protection...

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky on Monday turned over the keys to the Jewish school of Gondar, Ethiopia, to the town’s mayor as the...

There is inside of me a part that thinks our greatest victory, even if the world does not recognize it, is simply that we are not like them.