Israel & Overseas

Backgrounder: Georgian Jewry, South Ossetia Crisis

The Jews of Georgia are one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, though most of the region's Jewish population left for Israel and other Western nations in the past three decades. There are approximately 10,000-12,000 Jews remaining in Georgia, mostly in and around the capital c…

A poem of solidarity with Sderot

Dear readers,

This original poem, dedicated to the people of Sderot, came in via e-mail, and I wanted to share it with you:

you want to crush me
stronger I'll grow up
I belong to a community
I'll stand up
thanks to something so strong
my soul, my heart,
so strong
my identity

The writer, Denise P…

Sderot Summer Camp Dispatch: August 3 --- The second camp cycle begins

The Jewish Agency, with funding from the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish Communities, is taking the entire population of 8,000 children ages 6 to 17 who live in the Sderot area out of the range of attack and letting kids do what they like best. From amusement parks to nature reser…

Sderot Summer Camp Dispatch: July 27 --- Quiet on the Set: making a film ab

The Jewish Agency, with funding from the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish Communities, is taking the entire population of 8,000 children ages 6 to 17 who live in the Sderot area out of the range of attack and letting kids do what they like best. From amusement parks to nature reser…

Sderot Summer Camp Dispatch: July 25 --- 10,000 children participated in th

The Jewish Agency, with funding from the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish Communities, is taking the entire population of 8,000 children ages 6 to 17 who live in the Sderot area out of the range of attack and letting kids do what they like best. From amusement parks to nature reser…

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