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Incoming Weinberg Foundation board chair  Paula Pretlow (fourth from left) and Federation CEO Joy Sisisky (right of Pretlow) with an Ethiopian family making aliyah to Israel.
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Bay Area leaders join one of the last flights of Ethiopians to Israel

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 25, 2023May 25, 2023

As she exited a chartered flight that had taken her from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Tel Aviv, Joy Sisisky found herself holding a stranger’s luggage. The Ethiopian man who handed […]

Serhii Pruzhanskyi with a rifle and a bulletproof vest. (Photo/Courtesy Pruzhanskyi)
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A Ukrainian Jew made aliyah. Now he’s back in his homeland fighting Russia.

by Tamar Jacoby and Forward January 3, 2023
Dr. Jonathan Esensten and his wife, Raquel Gardner, with their five children at Ramat Gan National Park in Israel, June 2022. (Photo/Esti Appleton Photography)
Posted inFirst Person

Why I left San Francisco to write my family’s story in Israel

Dr. Jonathan Esensten by Jonathan Esensten November 2, 2022November 3, 2022
People exit an Allegro train at the central railway station in Helsinki, March 3, 2022. Trains to Finland are packed with Russians fearful that now is their last chance to escape the impact of Western sanctions. (Photo/JTA-Alessandro Rampazzo-AFP via Getty Images)
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Their country suddenly a pariah, Jews look for ways to leave Russia

by Jonathan Shamir and JTA March 11, 2022
Jared Armstrong (left) took part in a Birthright Israel trip in 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jared Armstrong)
Posted inOpinion

Israel’s never-ending, and very human, ‘Who Is a Jew?’ saga

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA February 24, 2022February 22, 2022
Jared Armstrong (center) with other participants on a Birthright trip to Israel in 2021.
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Israel thinks I only want to make aliyah so I can play basketball. But I just want to come home.

Jared Armstrong by Jared Armstrong and JTA February 16, 2022
Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Uganda. (Photo/Courtesy Be’chol Lashon)
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‘Who gets to define Judaism?’ Israel rejects Ugandan Jew’s application for citizenship again

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
Iron Dome missile defense interceptors are shot over the Israeli city of Ashkelon during Israel's conflict with Hamas in May 2021. (Photo/JTA-Avi Roccah-Flash90)
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A major Israeli city is just 9 miles from Gaza. Some Americans are choosing to move there anyway.

by Linda Gradstein and JTA December 7, 2021
Ethiopians are reunited with their families at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, Feb. 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
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Israel to speed up evacuations of Ethiopian Jews in midst of civil war

Shira Hanau by Andrew Lapin, Shira Hanau and JTA November 11, 2021
The Jaffe family, formerly of Berkeley, on the beach in Tel Aviv before the latest outbreak of violence in Israel.
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New Israelis from Bay Area experience sirens, shelters for first time

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 14, 2021May 24, 2021

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