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Rabbi Feldman’s Bar Mitzva speech – Inspiring

editor 10 April 2013

By Sheila Raviv.. When I heard this speech I had to share it with you all. It is truly inspiring.
I am proud to send you this Bar Mitzvah speech. It is both moving and inspiring and appropriate for both Yom haShoah and Yom HaAtzmaut – indeed for every day of our lives.

It begins with a few words in Russian and some  the chuckling – continue to the end. I guarantee tears and believe every young person should hear his words. An amazing speech. (more…)
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The ingathering: Operation Dove to bring home last of Ethiopian Jews

editor 31 October 2012

By Ryan Jones.. Israel this week officially launched “Operation Dove” to bring home the last of Ethiopia’s Jews. The first flight in Operation Dove landed in Tel Aviv on Monday with 240 of Ethiopia’s “Falash Mura.”

The Falash Mura are part of an Ethiopian tribe that long went by the name of “Beta Israel” – the House of Israel. Sometime during the past two centuries, a large number of Beta Israel tribesmen converted to Christianity. For some the conversion was forced, for others adopting Christianity was the only way to gain full human rights. (more…)

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Israel’s forgotten refugees (3-3)

editor 22 October 2012

By Elizabeth Blade.. Arab leaders consistently deny accusations that their nations’ mistreatment of Jews led to an exodus and the creation of a Jewish refugee problem in 1948. They regularly make a show of offering that those Jews who left return to their Arab homelands as compensation for any past misdeeds. Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Maan as saying, “We are not against any Jew who wants to return to Morocco, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and elsewhere. I believe no Arab state rejects the Jewish right of returning to their native lands”. (more…)

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Israel’s forgotten refugees (1-3)

editor 17 October 2012

By Elizabeth Blade.. An Israeli Foreign Ministry campaign, launched in September 2012,  aimed at restoring “rights and justice” for Jewish refugees that fled Arab lands in the previous century, elicited harsh criticism from Palestinian leaders like Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee, who referred to the initiative as a ploy. “Jews who came to Israel are not refugees, because they left their homes voluntarily and under pressure from Zionist groups and the Jewish Agency,” she was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying, suggesting that the Foreign Ministry’s move was really meant to distract from the suffering of the Palestinians and block their recent attempts to obtain a non-member-state status at the United Nations (UN). (more…)

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Uganda’s relationship with Israel – The Uganda scheme 1903

Andrew Tucker 22 August 2012

Popularly known as the Uganda Scheme, the East Africa Scheme was a plan to resettle Jews in British East Africa. On April 2, 1903, British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain suggested to Zionist leader Theodor Herzl that Uganda in British East Africa might be an ideal place to settle Jewish immigrants. (more…)

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Shabbat Shalom from glorious rainy Jerusalem!

editor 22 November 2011

Friday 18th November. I love the rain, it cleanses the air, the city, the soul and gives life to the earth. I imagine the tiny seeds and bulbs hiding in the cracked arid earth suddenly springing into life, preparing to burst forth in the spring.  (more…)

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7,300 Bnei Menashe to make aliyah

editor 25 October 2011

By Itamar Eichner. The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Immigrant Absorption has made a decision in principle to bring to Jewish state northeastern Indian community claiming descent from one of Lost Tribes of Israel. (more…)

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Columbus of hidden Jews

webmaster 24 March 2011

He wanders Amazon jungles, travels to Chinese villages, searches Spain for Marranos, and sees India’s Bnei Menashe as his life’s mission. Michael Freund has an obsession: Discovering remote Jews. (more…)

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We owe the Jews…

editor 6 September 2010

What follows is an edited version of a speech delivered by historian Andrew Roberts to the Friends of Israel Initiative in the British House of Commons on July 19, 2010. (more…)

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Where are the lost tribes of Israel?

editor 12 January 2010

by Barry Strong
About 2,700 years ago the land of Israel was invaded by Assyria and ten of the nation’s tribes were carried away into captivity. No return of these tribes to their land has been recorded in the Bible or in secular histories. Nothing more has been heard of them. Apparently they vanished without trace. But the Bible says they have an important place in Israel’s future.
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