Nearly 1 million people who emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union were eligible as Jews under the Law of Return and became Israeli citizens, accounting for 15 percent of Israel’s population. ..…

Current projects include Palestine solidarity work with Adalah- NY The Coalition for Justice in Middle East supporting the Right to City Alliance with Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and staging queer & gendertreyf production, with Killer Sideburns..…

Still, it won formal approval from only six of the alliance’s 31 member nations. . The IHRA definition’s opening statement—“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews”—is a grammatical mess, as Antony Lerman, a senior fellow at..…

For many American Jews who came of age in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, going on strike with your union and fighting for racial justice was the most deeply Jewish thing one could do. ..…

About three-quarters of Jewish respondents from Soviet Union arrived Israel between 1990 and 1999, in the years following the disintegration of USSR in 1991. Soviet Jews brought secular mindset to Israel, and more than two decades later, Jews. ..…

While American Jews are more optimistic they are considerably less likely than Israeli Jews to say Israeli government controlled by center-right right-wing coalition for the last several years is making effort to achieve peace with Palestinians. Once again, in both countries,..…

To Jewish leaders and voters Palm Beach County, Harris emphasized her support for Israel and her belief that Jews are the chosen people.. At Fort Lauderdale of Christian Family Coalition, wide faith-based group, she focused on her religious calling and how she overcame loathing of..…

In 1939, there were 16.6 Jews worldwide, and majority of them 9.5 million, or 57% lived Europe, according to DellaPergola's estimates. ... DellaPergola estimates that there were 3.4 Jews in European portions of Soviet Union as of 1939. ..…

The protesters represent every group of Ukrainian citizens Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers, people from the cities and the countryside, people from all regions of the country, members of all political parties, the young and the old, Christians, Muslims, and Jews. And yet it began with the..…

Todd Stiefel, the chairman and primary funder of the Openly Secular coalition, said: “If it was on the books that Jews couldn’t hold public office, or that African-Americans or women couldn’t vote, that would be a no-brainer. ..…

Jews from the former Soviet Union and their offspring account for roughly one-tenth of the U.S. ... Jews have high levels of educational attainment. Most Jews are college graduates (58%), including 28% who say they have earned a post-graduate degree. ..…

They include Sikhs and Jains from India, followers of folk religions from China and Hong Kong, followers of African traditional religions from sub-Saharan Africa and Jews from the former Soviet Union, among others. . ..…

1941, its armies first entered lands such as Lithuania that had just been incorporated into Soviet Union. Nazi message was that Bolshevism was Jewish and that Jews were Bolsheviks, and thus Soviet of Lithuania was the fault of Jews.. ..…

Hitler's with anti-Semitism made the vision both in its symbolism and in its ambition invasion of the East would mean the occupation of the part of the world where most Jews lived, the destruction of Soviet Union, and the achievement of world power.. ..…