For some retirees, it can come down to choosing to spend their golden years overlooking the Mediterranean instead of a golf course in Boca Raton. For others, it’s a matter of following the …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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1/24/18
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Unlike the 18-year-old in the next bunk, nobody is drafting or otherwise forcing the enlistment of the IDF’s American, French, British, Canadian, Swiss, South African, Australian, Peruvian and …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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1/10/18
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As a group of well-wishers waved tiny Israeli flags and shouted “Welcome home,” Diane Hewitt of Hoboken, New Jersey, off the El Al jet that had just flown her to Tel Aviv from New York, …
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By Larry Luxner, for NBN
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1/10/18
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Many Jews who move to Israel only have eyes for Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
Whether it’s Tel Aviv’s wealth of startups, sunny beaches and culture, or Jerusalem’s …
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By Andrew Tobin, JTA
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12/13/17
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Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) this week launched “Go Beyond” in a fresh push to develop Israel’s periphery by directing new olim toward opportunities …
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11/8/17
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Dozens of future IDF soldiers from North America immigrated to Israel this week, arriving on an El Al Airlines flight chartered by the Nefesh B’Nefesh agency, hoping to do their part in …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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8/18/17
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Sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh
TEL AVIV — Capt. Libby Weiss spent most of the summer of 2014 in a Hamas tunnel.
Israel’s military captured the tunnel, which extended …
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By Renee Ghert-Zand, JTA
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8/2/17
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For Chani Newman of Far Rockaway, making aliyah with her husband and children, the answer to the question, “Why now?” was obvious. “We’re Jewish!” she …
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By Ed Weintrob
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7/12/17
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After Israel’s chief rabbinate last week distributed what a critic described as a rabbinical “blacklist” of Orthodox rabbis, the chief rabbinate apologized on Tuesday to one of those it defamed — Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, co-founder …
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Combined Sources
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7/12/17
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — When Joel Zacks and Linda Ginns each first visited Israel, on separate pre-college tours, they fell in love with the country.
It was 1968, they were both 18 and had yet …
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By Yardena Schwartz
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6/28/17
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