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Aliyah / Geulah / Coronavirus

Aliyah to Israel Continues Amid Coronavirus Crisis, 961 Immigrate in March

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Anyone who holds a valid visa to immigrate to Israel is entitled enter Israel under the Law of Return, even though the borders are currently closed to foreign nationals.

Headline / Global / Jerusalem / Holocaust

Leaders from World War II’s Allied Powers Address World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Russia

Russia Shows Footage of S-300 Missiles Landing in Syria

By JNi.Media

The missile systems are shown being unloaded from the An-124-100 Ruslan strategic airlift aircraft at the Hmeymim air base in Syria.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Government / Iran / Russia

Russians Certain Giving Syria S-300 Missiles Won't Upset Relations with Israel

By JNi.Media

"It is not in Israel’s interest to add a serious country such as Russia to the list of its opponents."

Jewish / Arts and Entertainment / Obituaries / Russia

Putin, Medvedev, Attend Adored Jewish Crooner's Funeral

By JNi.Media

In 1983, Kobzon was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and reprimanded for performing Jewish songs.

Elections / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Netanyahu Backs Ze'ev Elkin for Jerusalem Mayor

By Jewish Press News Desk

Minister Ze'ev Elkin emigrated to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990.

Featured / Politics / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Leftwing Party Chief Zahava Gal-On Leaves Knesset

By JNi.Media

Last month, Gal-On, the first director general of anti-Zionist NGO B'Tselem, was spared a vote to oust her from the chairmanship in her party's national convention.

Politics / The Knesset / Aliyah / Geulah / Russia

Speaker Edelstein to Russian Parliament: I Greet You in the Language for which I Was Arrested

By JNi.Media

Speaker Edelstein was invited to give the speech exactly 30 years after he had completed a three-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp for his Zionist activities.

Features On The Jewish World / From the Paper

Israel’s 1953 World’s Fair

By Saul Jay Singer

Though the United States participated, Israeli officials were furious when the U.S. announced it would boycott the opening ceremony.

Jewish / NY / Politics / Arts and Entertainment

Congresswoman Lowey Opens Exhibition on Leonard Cohen’s Jewish Roots

By JNi.Media

Top Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb gave a special tribute performance to Leonard Cohen at the conference’s gala event on Saturday night.

Antisemitism / Business and Economy / Russia

When your Car Breaks Down in Omsk, Take It to 'Zhyd' Garage

By JNi.Media

'If this name is a mistake and it was picked out of ignorance, then it needs to be corrected,' declared a SuperOmsk editorial by Stepan Bonkovsky, a Deputy of the Regional Legislative Assembly.

Jewish / Politics / History / Arts and Entertainment / Obituaries / Canada

Soviet Era 'Babi Yar' Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko Dies in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 83

By JNi.Media

Yevtushenko's Babi Yar described both the Nazi atrocities and the Soviet government's own persecution of Jews.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / Russia

Medvedev, Netanyahu, Rivlin, Discuss Bilateral Cooperation and Agricultural Innovation

By JNi.Media

The Volcani tour will conclude with new sensors to monitor milk quality and output in cows, and new wheat storage solutions that protect against pests.

IDF & Security / Syria / US / Politics / UK / News Briefs / Russia

Escalation: Russian Aircraft Carrier Headed for the Mediterranean

By JNi.Media

Once in the Mediterranean, the Kuznetsov will take up position off the coast of Syria for four to five months, possibly using its complement of 20 MIG 29, 12 SU-33, and Kamov helicopters to carry out airstrikes.

Jewish / US / The Courts / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / Religion

July 4th Special: 11 Jews Who Changed America

By JNi.Media

In making our selection we looked for true pioneers, people who arrived when a certain situation was at point A, and due to their investment over a lifetime, things moved on to B or even higher in the alphabet.

Druze / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Chessed and Tzedaka

Jewish Agency Launches Food Co-Op in Druze Village

By JNi.Media

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

IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / Iran / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Hezbollah / Settlements / Russia

In Netanyahu Meeting with Putin Tuesday Syria on the Table, But Not Iran

By JNi.Media

The Russians are supplying Iran with advanced S-300 long range surface-to-air missile systems, and are in the process of selling the Iranians many more weapons.

Government / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Meet Israel’s New-Old Immigrant Absorption Minister

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Sofa Landver, an immigrant from Russia, has returned to the office she headed between 2009 and 2015.

IDF & Security / History / News Briefs / Russia

Russia to Return Israeli Tank Captured 34 Years Ago in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The tank was used by the IDF during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War. On June 10, 1982 it was captured by the Syrian army and eventually transported to the Soviet Union.

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine / United Nations (UN)

Israel Among Top Five Countries on WHO 2015 Life Expectancy Chart

By JNi.Media

Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.

Terrorism / Syria / US / Eye on "Palestine" / Iran / News Briefs / Turkey / Europe / Lebanon / Islamists / Saudi Arabia / Hezbollah / Egypt / Russia

9/11 Spreads in the Middle East

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers 12 years ago. With the help of other terrorists, it is bringing down Mideast regimes, banking on chaos to spread its policy of destruction of the West.

A Soldier's Mother

Their Heroes and Ours...

By Paula Stern

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.

Op-Eds

What Would Stalin Say?

By Chabad.org

Sami Rohr’s impetus for building Jewish community in the former Soviet Union.

A Banner Raised High

In Sderot: 'We Can’t Sleep'

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

It has been noted that every rocket attack is attempted murder.

Sultan Knish

Savages of Socialism

By Daniel Greenfield

Most governments subsidize or price control some necessities to win over the underclass... or at least keep them from burning down everything in sight.

Op-Eds

We Have A Lot To Learn From The Soviet Jewry Movement

By Daniel Eisenstadt and Michael Granoff

The greatest Jewish success story in a quarter century has become unknown to many in less than a generation. On Dec. 6, 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington, more than a quarter-million American Jews – Democrats and Republicans, observant and secular, and individuals representing the entire spectrum of Israeli politics – gathered on the National Mall with a single unified message as old as the Exodus story: “Let our people go!”

Israel / Global

Former PM Shamir Remembered For Saying Little, Standing Strong

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – When Yitzhak Shamir was Israel’s prime minister, he liked to point American visitors to a gift he received upon his retirement after many years serving in the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.

Interviews and Profiles

‘I Will Absolutely Fight For You’: An Interview With Would-Be State Senate Candidate David Storobin

By Elliot Resnick

If the stars are aligned in his favor, attorney David Storobin will become the first immigrant from the former Soviet Union to serve as a New York state senator.

Israel

New Statistics on Christians in Israel

By Malkah Fleisher

A new report released by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics sheds light on the successful Christian minority living in Israel.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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