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	Jewish Agency for Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people.
		The Jewish Agency was raided by British Troops in 1946 under Operation Agatha in response to a number of attacks against British forces.
		The Jewish Agency was charged with facilitating Jewish immigration into Palestine, land purchase from Arab owners, and planning the general policies of the Zionist leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Agency_for_Israel (250 words)

	The Jewish Agency: Historic Role and Current Crisis
		The Jewish Agency may be the only such organization in the world that has a special charter under international law, one that was readopted by the United Nations as part of a general readoption of the surviving elements of the League of Nations that were deemed worthy of continuing after World War II.
		The Jewish Agency was originally designed not as an arena for the conduct of world Jewish public affairs, but for the singular purpose of rebuilding the Jewish national home in the Land of Israel.
		The Agency survived the catastrophic inability of the League of Nations to fulfill its world mission because it became the instrumentality of the Zionist movement and the Jewish people as a whole.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles/ja-role.htm (4393 words)

	FORWARD : News
		The Jewish Agency and its allies were said to have lobbied heavily for Solomon, a past national chair of the UJA and a close friend of Sallai Meridor, the Israeli chairman of the agency's executive.
		The Jewish Agency for Israel has named a woman to its top Diaspora post for the first time ever, but the appointment is receiving a lukewarm response from the American Jewish communities she is meant to represent.
		But some UJC and Jewish Agency leaders said all three candidates would have been as committed to Israel advocacy as they are to the concerns of local federations.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.02.28/news7.html (1235 words)

	The Jewish Agency and Other Worldwide Instrumentalities of the Jewish People
		The reconstitution process with its separation of the WZO and the Agency and the restructuring of the governing organs of the latter so that the new representatives of the diaspora communities were included in them in strength, brought the Jewish Agency into a new stage of development.
		Formally the members of the Jewish Agency Assembly and Board of Governors are designated by bodies serving this second arena although in the case of the United States, the community leaders are designated by the United Israel Appeal in tandem with the major local community federations.
		Under the terms of this covenant, the Jewish Agency was recognized as the third element in the constellation of institutions governing Israel but was decidedly subordinate to the government of the state.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles3/rwj1.htm (8739 words)

	AllRefer.com - Israel - World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency Israeli Information Resource
		The Jewish Agency for Palestine was established in 1929 under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine as the operative arm of the WZO in building a Jewish national homeland.
		In 1971 the relationship between the WZO and the Jewish Agency was reconstituted as part of a continuing effort to improve the operations of these bodies and to harmonize and strengthen ties between the state and the Diaspora.
		The Jewish Agency's task was not only to coordinate various fund-raising institutions but also to finance such programs as immigration and land settlement and to assist immigrants in matters of housing, social welfare, education, and youth care.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/israel/israel107.html (868 words)

	FORWARD : News
		Jewish Agency supporters counter that the split should remain the same given the toll terrorism is taking on Israel's citizens and the costs of absorbing new immigrants in a devastated economy.
		On the eve of the annual gathering of North American Jewish charitable federations in Jerusalem, supporters of their main Israeli beneficiary, the Jewish Agency for Israel, are in an uproar over a proposal by fundraisers that could slash the agency's funding.
		In fact, the Jewish Agency's spokesman's office is taking a wait-and-see approach: "The ONAD subcommittees validated and legitimated most of the requests [for additional funding] submitted by the Jewish Agency.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.11.07/news13.ujc.html (869 words)

	Haaretz - Israel News - Jewish Agency enters strategic partnership with Nefesh B Nefesh
		The Jewish Agency declined to specify the amounts to be transferred, but sources there indicated that it will be in the low millions of dollars and depend on the number of immigrants successfully wooed by Nefesh B'Nefesh.
		The new partnership is part of a wider initiative by the Jewish Agency to cooperate with other organizations which share its goals.
		While the Jewish Agency will still provide potential immigrants with help in obtaining visas and will continue to pay for immigrants' one-way tickets to Israel, Nefesh B'Nefesh will bear more responsibility for recruiting new immigrants, sources at the Jewish Agency said.
	www.nefeshbnefesh.org /news/sum2004/haaretz_6_13_04.htm (519 words)

	Lev Krichevsky Jewish Telegraphic Agency 30-Jul-1998 Israel recruits teen-agers for emigration
		Jewish Agency officials in Kiev could not be reached for comment, but Yossi Shturm, a JAFI spokesman in Israel, said lawyers in Kiev and Jerusalem were examining the letter and that the agency was planning to comply with the registration request.
		The conflict was settled after months of negotiations when the agency agreed to set up a new organization, the Jewish Agency in Russia, with Russian citizens among its founders.
		In Ukraine, as in most of other states in the former Soviet Union, the Jewish Agency operates in accordance with bilateral agreements that allow it to promote Jewish culture and support Jewish life.
	www.ukar.org /kriche01.html (652 words)

	Jewish Agency's Response to Argentina
		The Jewish Agency is moving toward operating in an emergency mode.
		At the present time, 18 Jewish Agency emissaries are working in Argentina in the fields of immigration and Jewish education.
		The Jewish Agency is taking quick action in response to the state of emergency in Argentina.
	www.sfjcf.org /whoweare/news/122101argentina2.shtml (727 words)

	Jewish Agency -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Overview of this agency engaged in the preservation and the renewal of Jewish culture in America.
		More results on "Jewish Agency" when you join.
		His advocacy for Jewish statehood was crucial to the foundation of the state of Israel.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043602 (766 words)

	Israel Insight: Jewish Agency Rescues Iraqi Jews in Operation "Ezra MiTzion"
		As a result of the Jewish Agency's efforts to monitor the conditions and needs of the Jews in Iraq, it became evident that there was a need to undertake an urgent humanitarian operation.
		Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor praised those involved in the operation and said, "The Jewish Agency will continue as always to do everything in its power to assist Jews in distress, wherever they may be in the world."
		Responding to the explicit wishes of six Baghdadi Jews, the Jewish Agency, in coordination with the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and other relevant bodies in Israel and abroad (including HIAS), decided to bring these Jews to Israel as soon as possible.
	www.imakenews.com /federation/e_article000172127.cfm?x=a21PHHc,a5cdMQ9 (311 words)

	Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation
		The Jewish Agency aids individuals and families who have been the victims of terrorist acts in Israel.
		This agency does its work worldwide in 62 countries wherever there are Jewish communities at risk.
		The Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation is the central planning and fundraising organization for the Jewish community of the Merrimack Valley.
	www.mvjf.org (578 words)

	Israel Insight: Jewish Agency Emissary Returns from Iraq
		Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor praised Kaye for the success of his mission and stressed that, "This is just the first mission, in which the aims were to establish direct contact which will lead to fulfilling the needs of the Jewish community of Iraq.
		Jeff Kaye, a representative of the Jewish Agency for Israel, recently returned from Iraq, where he traveled on a special mission to establish contact with the Jewish community of Baghdad and to learn firsthand about their present condition and needs.
		Dealing with the archives of the Jewish community, which were relocated to the cellars of the bureaus of Iraqi Intelligence with the intention of eventually bringing them to Israel.
	www.imakenews.com /federation/e_article000163222.cfm (295 words)

	Engaging Disengagement - 2
		Jewish community in Gaza City is flourishing, with a Bet Din (Jewish religious court) and a yeshiva (rabbinical institute of higher learning).
		The Jewish community in Gaza City is flourishing, with a Bet Din (Jewish religious court) and a yeshiva (rabbinical institute of higher learning).
		The local rabbis ruled that Jewish farmers had to tithe their produce and refrain from working the land during the Sabbatical year, as for Eretz Yisrael.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/actual/conflict/disengagement/2.html (3563 words)

	Forward Newspaper Online
		Jewish community leaders will speak about the merits of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
		There is a compelling logic, it must be said, to the decision by United Jewish Communities, reported by Ori Nir on page 3, not to mount a frontal challenge to the slashing budget cuts planned by the Republicans on Capitol Hill.
		The American Jewish Committee called for Germany's new government to take an active role against anti-Semitism.
	www.forward.com (846 words)

	Jewish Agency Board of Governors
		Jewish Agency for Israel Treasurer Chaim Chesler reflects upon the recently concluded 34th Zionist Congress and this week's historic cornerstone laying for a new JAFI settlement in the Gilboa Mountains.
		In the opening address of the Jewish Agency Assembly, Sallai Meridor, Chairman of the Zionist Executive and The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), spoke of the pain of terror victims and challenged Jewish communal leaders to build upon their solid support of Israel.
		An address by Sandy Hollander, member of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors and member of the the Jewish community of Metro West New Jersey.
	www.isracast.com /jafiassembly (456 words)

	John Kerry has Jewish roots -- who knew? (February 07, 2003)
		However, a genealogist hired by the Boston Globe found that Kerry's grandfather was born to a Jewish family in a small town in the Czech Republic.
		Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic, said he has known for 15 years that his paternal grandmother was Jewish, but had unsuccessfully searched for news of his paternal grandfather's roots.
		There was an initial hubbub when Albright, secretary of state in the Clinton administration, learned in 1997 that three of her four grandparents were Jewish.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk030207/us02.shtml (646 words)

	Jerusalem--An Introduction
		The Jewish Agency, after much soul-searching, agreed to accept internationalization in the hope that in the short-run it would protect the city from bloodshed and the new state from conflict.
		By the time of partition, a thriving Jewish community was living in the eastern part of Jerusalem, an area that included the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
		The ancient Jewish Quarter of the Old City was ravaged, 58 Jerusalem synagogues — some centuries old-were destroyed or ruined, others were turned into stables and chicken coops.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/Peace/Jerusalem.html (2527 words)

	Israel Programs Center
		The Israel Program Center, a division of the Jewish Agency for Israel is heavily subsidizing programs for young, upcoming Jewish students and professionals to travel to Israel for little cost.
		Israel is the cultural and spiritual home of the Jewish people.
		If you are a student or a recent college graduate, then the time is right for you to go to Israel, and impart of yourself in the Jewish Homeland.
	www.israelprograms.org (423 words)

	Jewish Telegraphic Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency serving Jewish community newspapers and media around the world.
		The JTA was founded on February 6, 1917 by Jacob Landau as the Jewish Correspondence Bureau with the mandate of collecting and disseminating news among and affecting the Jewish communities of the diaspora as well as Israel.
		The JTA is headquartered in New York City and has correspondents in Washington, DC, Jerusalem, Moscow and thirty other cities in North and South America, Israel, Europe, Africa and Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Telegraphic_Agency (423 words)

	jew
		Some Jewish communities, ranging from the Lost Ten Tribes in the 700s BCE to the Kaifeng Jews of China, have disappeared entirely, but assimilation has remained relatively low over much of the past millenium, as Jews were often not allowed to integrate with the wider communities in which they lived.
		The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society.
		Following the destruction of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the Jews, Jewish worship stopped being centrally organized around the Temple, and instead was rebuilt around rabbis who acted as teachers and leaders of individual communities.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /en/wikipedia/j/je/jew.html (423 words)

	The Jewish Relief Agency
		The Jewish Relief Agency is an organization whose aim is to identify and feed needy Jewish families.
		JRA has done so by compiling one of the largest databases of Jews requesting food assistance in the Greater Philadelphia region.
	www.jewishrelief.org (57 words)

	Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education: Educational Resources
		The Department of Jewish Zionist Education of the Jewish Agency, in partnership with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has developed a unique on-line course called "Ambassador." The "Ambassador" course will equip you with the facts of the conflict, the tools to understand Palestinian propaganda and media bias and the means to advocate for Israel.
		http://www.jafi.org.il/education/datajem/ DataJem is a database of Jewish educational materials, is a project of The Pedagogic Center of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel and is searchable by subject, material type, age group, language, keywords, title, author, and publisher.
		The largest Jewish campus organization in the world, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life provides opportunities for Jewish students to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through its global network of over 500 regional centers, campus Foundations and Hillel student organizations.
	www.acaje.org /content/educationalResources/links/edLinks.shtml (4222 words)

	Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA)
		The JSSA Hospice, a program of the Jewish Social Service Agency of Metropolitan Washington, is commemorating its 20th anniversary of providing this very special care later this spring.
		Welcome to JSSA (the Jewish Social Service Agency of Metropolitan Washington).
		JSSA's Jewish Chaplaincy provides pastoral care, counseling and crisis intervention of a spiritual nature to the institutionalized (those living in nursing homes, hospitals, prisons and hospices) and unaffiliated Jewish population of the Greater Washington area.
	www.jssa.org (1105 words)

	The Bombing of the King David Hotel
		The Irgun chose it as a target after British troops invaded the Jewish Agency June 29, 1946, and confiscated large quantities of documents.
		The information about Jewish Agency operations, including intelligence activities in Arab countries, was taken to the King David Hotel.
		In contrast to Arab attacks against Jews, which were widely hailed as heroic actions, the Jewish National Council denounced the bombing of the King David.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/King_David.html (379 words)

	The Jewish Agency For Israel Homepage
		The Jewish Agency For Israel in the News
		News articles are gathered from various local and international publications that relate to the Jewish Agency and its role in the Jewish world.
		The Jewish Agency - The Global Partnership of the Jewish People with Israel
	www.jewishagency.org.il (209 words)

	JTA NEWS
		But many, including his family, are speculating that it was a factor in the terrorists’ decision to kill the American Jewish civilian who had gone to the war-torn country in search of business.
		The scene echoed the 2002 murder in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was forced to admit his Jewishness on tape just before his captors cut off his head.
		NEW YORK, May 12 (JTA) — The world may never know for sure if Nicholas Berg’s religion played a role in his grisly execution at the hand of terrorists in Iraq.
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=14076&intcategoryid=4 (149 words)

	United Jewish Communities
		The National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) 2000-01 is a representative survey of the Jewish population in the United States sponsored by UJC and the Jewish federation system...
		At the "Jewish Values, Human Rights and Public Policy" session Sunday afternoon at the 2005 GA in Toronto, Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler will challenges us to find new and engaging ways to translate traditional Jewish values into relevant social action and advocacy.
		Operation Promise, an initiative of UJC and the Jewish Federations of North America, will help bring remaining Ethiopian Jews to Israel and help mainstream the entire Ethiopian-Israeli community, and will help feed poor, elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union and help strengthen Jewish identity among young Jews there.
	www.uja.org (566 words)

	Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
		UJC CEO and president Howard Reiger said that while there might be "issues" surrounding the Jewish Agency and federation systems, it was "doubtful" that they were "obstacles." "Most contributors to the campaign haven't got a clue what the Jewish Agency is. They probably haven't got a clue what the Jewish Federation is," he said.
		By The Jewish Agency is suffering from a $20 million budget shortfall necessitating cuts in staff and programs, while $92m.
		Board of Governors Chairwoman Carole Solomon noted that funding the Jewish Agency is always the top priority of the federations.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540642697&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (700 words)

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