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Jewish Agency offers tour of Mexican Jewish sites
The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced its first-ever mission to Mexico, May 22-27, in order to gain a more thorough perspective about Jewish life in the United States’ neighboring country.
As the American Jewish...
Chassidic rocket scientist overcame Soviet oppression to guide Israel’s space launch to the moon
One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and private space programs.
Mathematician...
Jewish Agency to provide loans to employees seeking child surrogacy overseas
The Jewish Agency for Israel has decided to grant financial loans to employees of the organization who decide to search for a pregnancy surrogate overseas, becoming the first Israeli governmental organization to offer financial assistance...
Special initiative to map and preserve historic European Jewish cemeteries
A new initiative to map historic Jewish cemeteries will utilize a drone to fly over 1,500 endangered burial sites.
According to Time magazine, the German-based European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative will feature a team of drone operators surveying...
Philanthropist, GOP donor Sheldon Adelson undergoing cancer treatment
Jewish philanthropist, Republican billionaire donor and Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder and CEO Sheldon Adelson has been undergoing cancer treatment and not been at his firm’s office since the end of December, said one...
Hillel International tells Wake Forest Jewish students to ‘lay low’ during anti-Israel week
Amid this week being “Palestinian Rights Awareness Week” at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., pro-Israel campus students and Hillel professionals disagree on the appropriate approach toward countering the latest installation of anti-Israel bias....
Grassroots organization grapples with Israel, spiritually and physically
Yohanna (Yockie) Arbib was tapped as the new president of HaShomer HaChadash, an Israeli grassroots organization established in 2007 to assist Israelis in maintaining the safety of farmers and open spaces in the Negev...
A Ballad in the Key of 4G
This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community—the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are...
Israeli archaeologists uncover 1,600-year-old estate of affluent Samaritan
Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old estate belonging to a wealthy Samaritan man.
The property, which was discovered in Tzur Natan in central Israel, consisted of an inscription that reads, “Only God help the beautiful property of...
Winning app of IAC Eitanim’s national competition provides ‘compass’ for Jewish life on campus
You’re a prospective college student. How do you navigate Jewish life and the pro-Israel community when you arrive on campus? With so many different organizations, how do you find the right group for you?
Eight...