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    Volume 7 Issue 8 - August 2004

    • Limor Mangisto It is for motivated, determined immigrant students such as Mangisto that the Jewish Agency has recently established the Fund for New Immigrant Students.

    • Youth Aliyah Village Strikes Gold Hadassah Neurim's students consistently perform well in the World High Schools Athletics Championships, finishing seventh in the team event in Morocco and in first place in Turkey last year.

    • "I Was Able to Regain Control of My Life" "My life was turned topsy turvy as a result of the terror attack and everything that followed. But this great organization - the Jewish Agency - helped me.

    • With a Little Help From Friends For Luba, being alone was the hardest part of aliya - harder than adjusting to a new language, a new country and new customs. But today, Luba is no longer alone. She has found a place to call home thanks to a Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) program called "Together at Home".


    Volume 7 Issue 7 - July 2004

    • Ethiopian Immigrants Learn the Rules of the Road "This is truly amazing," enthuses Avi Bitou, director of the Lod's absorption programs. They never imagined in their wildest dreams that one day they would be learning to drive.

    • Designing a New Life Only a few months ago, the picture was not so rosy. Kirchuk, despite 20 years of professional experience in his hometown of Corrientes, had not been able to find a position as an architect in Israel.

    • Educating to Give "I teach my students to give for the sake of giving," says Ahouva Elbaz, a dynamic elementary school teacher from Gilo in southern Jerusalem.

    • Choosing to Serve - Alone Schnayderman is one of 2500 lone soldiers who have made aliyah from all over the world and are serving in the Israeli army without any family in Israel.


    Volume 7 Issue 6 - June 2004

    • Family Secrets "For the first time in my life, I was surrounded by 170 people, all of them Jewish," says Olga Weinstein, referring to the Jewish Agency summer camp near Moscow.

    • Journey of Self Discovery When faced with the impending draft in Russia, Shlomo Vorotnikov decided that he'd rather make aliyah and serve in Israel's armed forces.

    • Israel is My Homeland It's a long way from Rostov to Jerusalem and the spiritual distance is immeasurably greater.

    • Designing Her Future "In Buenos Aires, I was afraid to go to the cash machine," says Claudia Kavisse. "In Tel Aviv I feel free to go out anytime, even at three in the morning."


    Volume 7 Issue 5 - May 2004

    • It's All in the Picture "What's most rewarding is that after several months I see the fruit of my efforts," says Oleg Gorokhovsky, referring to his job as a youth counselor for students in the Jewish Agency's Selah higher education preparatory program.

    • A Happy Ending "As a Jew, I felt my religion and future are in Israel," says Svetlana Oltsblad. "The Jewish Agency brought me home."

    • "Yiddishe Nachas" Ethiopian Style "Our dream was to come to the Holy Land," says Slashi Mengisto. "The Jewish Agency made it possible."

    • Jewish and Israeli Pride "I really began to enjoy the prayers and to see them in a different light: they create a sense of cohesion and a common denominator, because they have been recited by Jews all over for thousands of years," says Yasmin Cohen, who was sent abroad by the Jewish Agency to serve as a counselor in a summer camp.


    Volume 7 Issue 4 - April 2004

    • Coming Home "When you're family is hurting, you want to be with them and help them!" says Arieh Gresaia from France. "It was like coming home."

    • The Zionist Idea Maya came to Israel without her family on the Jewish Agency's Na'aleh high school program.

    • Building Her Future The Jewish Agency helped a young architect from Buenos Aires build her future in Israel.

    • Learning to Parent Parenting skills helped Vered Yitzchakov turn her life around.




    Volume 7 Issue 1 - January 2004

    • Returning to Roots At age 17, Alexis Asernitzky fell in love -- with Israel. Nine years later the young man, who was head of Habonim-Dror in Argentina, returned for good.

    • Life With Baby: Win-Win Zehava Sasonov was having great difficulty coping with her baby, until a parenting program supported by the Jewish Agency taught her parenting skills. Thanks to these skills and her new self-confidence, she now enjoys being a mom.

    • Connecting the Jewish World Yaakov Attar, Director of Video-Conference Educational Projects at the Jewish Agency's Contact Center, made aliyah from Morocco, by way of England.

    • Jewish by Choice Although she was not born Jewish, Radka Uhrova from Prague felt a deep connection to Judaism.


    Volume 6 Issue 12 - December 2003

    • The Ten Days That Changed Her Life "I went on a ten-day trip and my life has never been the same. I don't know what happened to me exactly, but I fell in love with Israel."

    • Juan's Secret Pilgrimmage "I was standing at the Kotel and I was suffused with joy. On the other hand, I felt cheated, because a historical mistake had robbed me of 500 years of Judaism."

    • Promoting Zionism Down Under "The new technology-based community that GIPSE is building lessens the isolation of being in the middle of nowhere," says Tania Eshel, referring to the monthly web conferences that the Jewish Agency's GIPSE Program holds regularly.

    • Marketing Ideas Shulamit's first marketing project was herself. Although she couldn't read until sixth grade, she bluffed her way through elementary school by scribbling on the pages of her notebook and responding to questions from memory.




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