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Costs, not ideology, driving North American Jews to move to Israel

North American Jews who are moving to Israel are increasingly doing so for economic reasons – however, it is being packaged as Zionism Ironically, while people around the country are pitching tents to protest the high rent prices and general cost of living in Israel, a plane full of North Americans just immigrated to Israel…

By Mairav Zonszein July 20, 2011

Update: Corrections to “Jewish Agency” article and response

After publishing an article yesterday entitled “Jewish Agency to approve convert’s eligibility to immigrate to Israel,” I received the following email from Haviv Rettig Gur, director of communications for the Jewish Agency, which was also posted as a comment on my blog by “Yoav.” Leaving aside the personal insults and tone of the email, it did…

By Mairav Zonszein June 20, 2011

Has Aliyah from North American peaked- or is it stalling? (Jerry Haber)

The following was originally posted on The Magnes Zionist. Here’s something that caught my eye. In today’s Haaretz there was an article about the “sharp rise” in aliyah since last calendar year (the calendar in question is the Jewish one), in fact, 18%. This is the second year in a row that there was such a rise.…

By +972 Magazine September 5, 2010

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