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| | The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | New Zealand, population 4 million, has a Jewish community that numbers 5,000, according to the World Jewish Congress guide “Jewish Communities of the World.” Rose says the number is as high as 10,000 to 12,000, 80 percent of them in Auckland and most unaffiliated. |
 | | Rose is using New Zealand’s natural beauty and relaxed way of life, not the size of the Jewish community or its network of Jewish life, to interest Jews from abroad in the country. |
 | | New Zealand, in an attempt to restrict the number of poorly trained immigrants from Asia and the Middle East, has adopted new immigration requirements that favor people from the West with qualifications in such areas as engineering, medicine and information technology, Lipschitz says. |
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