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Border agents tell Jewish American ‘the IDF doesn’t want you in Israel’
Julie Weinberg-Connors, who is in the process of making ‘aliya,’ or immigrating to Israel as a Jew under the Law of Return, was told that they were being deported because of the army’s objections over their visits to the West Bank. They were eventually let in. Jewish-American Julie Weinberg-Connors was denied entry to Israel Wednesday…
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Henriette Chacar
September 12, 2018
Anti-Semitism in the U.S. doesn’t make me want to move to Israel
Why would American Jews be any less repulsed by the ultra-nationalist tendencies rampant in Israel than they are by those taking hold in America? By Sarah Stern The Jewish day school in Rockville, MD where I spent six years as a student received a bomb threat this week. There have been over 100 threats like…
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March 1, 2017
Why do LGBT Israelis leave the country?
Whether because of growing homophobia or their criticism of the occupation, some queer Israelis are leaving and say they’re not coming back. By Hila Amit Most academic literature on the issue of emigration from Israel is written from a Zionist perspective, thus telling a one-sided story. According to the story, Israeli emigrants feel a strong…
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Haokets
February 29, 2016
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Yemenite Children Affair: Families of the kidnapped speak out
Between the years 1948 and 1952, thousands of babies, children of mostly Yemenite immigrants to the newly-founded State of Israel, were allegedly taken away from their parents and given up for adoption to Ashkenazi families. Now a group of activists is telling the stories of the traumatized families who vow never to forget. (Translated from…
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Haokets
January 17, 2015
Autoxenophobia: The ‘demographic threat’ goes worldwide
The real demographic balance that should worry liberal, humanist, open and progressive people is the number of xenophobes in our society, rather than the number of people with beards, skullcaps or hijabs. By Dubi Kanengisser When I lived in Toronto, I used to jokingly exclaim “man, I hate those immigrants.” Like all jokes, this had a…
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October 3, 2012
WATCH: Israelis mock gov’t ads to bring nationals back home
Much attention in the last few days has been devoted to the public relations campaign led by the Israeli Ministry of Immigration … that backfired. (Read about it here.) The plug was pulled on a series of controversial commercials that were viewed by many diaspora Jews (and in particular North American Jews) as offensive. +972…
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Roee Ruttenberg
December 4, 2011
Israel cancels marriage ad after angry response from US Jews
The Israeli government on Friday announced that it would cancel immediately a group of television commercials introduced and paid for by the Ministry of Immigration, after the Embassy in Washington received a number of angry comments from American Jews. Speaking on CNN, Israel’s American-born Ambassador to Washington, noted: The Ministry of Immigration has been charged,…
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Roee Ruttenberg
December 2, 2011
Has Jewish immigration to Israel lost its significance?
Having immigrated to Israel a month ago, A. Daniel Roth contemplates the concept of ‘aliya’ — Jewish immigration to Israel — and how to make it significant. By A. Daniel Roth About a month ago I attended a lecture by one of my undergraduate professors from the Jewish studies department at the University of Toronto…
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December 2, 2011
Confessions of a reborn non-Zionist
The son of a Zionist family, Ari Miller immigrated to Israel dreaming of combat tours in the IDF, followed by a political or diplomatic career in the service of his new homeland. Today, his life couldn’t be farther away from those fantasies. A personal journey By Ari Miller | Photos from the author’s personal album…
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July 29, 2011
Top ten myths about Israeli policy
In the next few weeks, I will write a separate post about each of the top ten myths about Israeli policy, tackling the obfuscation and confusion that often characterize discussions of official Israeli positions and actions, at home and abroad. My top ten list appears below Inspired by the fascinating series on constitutional myths in…
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Roi Maor
June 16, 2011
Has Aliyah from North American peaked- or is it stalling? (Jerry Haber)
The following was originally posted on The Magnes Zionist. Here’s something that caught my eye. In today’s Haaretz there was an article about the “sharp rise” in aliyah since last calendar year (the calendar in question is the Jewish one), in fact, 18%. This is the second year in a row that there was such a rise.…
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September 5, 2010
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