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Jewish Agency ratifies plan to adjust mission

The Jewish Agency ratified the plan it passed this summer to revamp its mission at the group’s board of governors meetings in Jerusalem today

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The key to partnership? Sharansky

The key to partnership? Sharansky: So how exactly did Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel—two organizations with a long-running rocky relationship—manage to make common cause and work together (as I reported last week)?

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MASA invests $400,000 to help universities establish study in Israel programs

MASA has invested $400,000 in an initiative to try to increase the number of American college students who attend study abroad programs in Israel, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Guest Post: Nativ helps IDF soldiers convert

Some 2,000 Israeli soldiers have become Jewish through Nativ, says Misha Galperin

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IFCJ gives Jewish agency $1.1 million for Heftziba school system

Yechiel Eckstein’s International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has given $1.1 million to the Jewish Agency.

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Jumping from hack to flack

Haviv Rettig switches from covering the Jewish Agency as a reporter to defending it as its overseas spokesman. 

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Jewish Agency passes plan to change

As expected, the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel approved a plan to overhaul the agency’s focus at this week’s meetings in Jerusalem.

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Could a Birthright for high schoolers be in the offing?

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has dropped hints that he and the Jewish Agency for Israel could be working on a plan to offer free or heavily subsidized trips to Israel for high school students from the Diaspora, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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