The Jewish Light is currently preparing its annual Oy! Magazine Guide to Jewish Life and is seeking new Jewish organizations and congregations that were not listed in last year’s Guide to Jewish Life. The Guide serves as a directory for the organized...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 23, 2012
“Family Feud” it is not but area Jewish families are certainly getting themselves into the game this summer — and building a connection to Israel at the same time. “It’s a new approach to Jewish programming that we’re really excited to try,”...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli lawmakers from across the political spectrum launched a caucus to strengthen relations with Diaspora Jewry. At least 40 Knesset members have joined the ad hoc committee co-founded by coalition chairman Zeev Elkin of the Likud Party...
By Jacob Kamaras/JointMedia News Service
• Published March 16, 2012
After spending nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Natan Sharansky learned not to get too caught up in current events. “You have to look at [the world] from the perspective of the history of tens or sometimes even hundreds of years, and that’s what gives...
JERUSALEM -- The Jewish Agency will provide emergency aid to the Jewish community of Greece facing a serious financial crisis. The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel on Monday voted to grant about $1 million over two years to help Greece's...
JERUSALEM -- A Baltimore couple married 71 years is believed to be the oldest couple to make aliyah. Phillip and Dorothy Grossman, 95 and 93 respectively, made aliyah Tuesday on a Nefesh B'Nefesh group flight in cooperation with the Ministry of Immigrant...
By URIEL HEILMAN, JTA, DENVER
• Published November 9, 2011
After a decades-long partnership that saw the Jewish Agency for Israel serve as the official, exclusive Zionist arm of North America's Jewish community federations, the federation system is getting ready to date other partners. But Jewish Agency officials...