232 North American immigrants arrive in Israel on special flight


WELCOME— Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky shakes hands with Yehuda and Aviva Zuller of Staten Island, NY; their son Gilad, 3, [foreground in blue shirt] is named after abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured one week before Gilad Zuller was born.


TEL AVIV (Press Release)—Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky greeted the 232 new immigrants from North America who arrived Tuesday, July 7, in Israel on a special flight, part of the joint venture between Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency.

“I want relive the moment when I made aliyah and went to Jerusalem – it felt as if all the Jews of Israel and the world were

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there with me. When I see you, I have that same feeling again,” Sharansky told the group at a ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport. “After 2,000 years, you are coming home.

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Columnist Yarden Frankl, himself once a new immigrant,
tells new immigrants the wonders that are in store for
them. Click here to see his column
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Cyber-Referrals

Jay Jacobson of Minneapolis forwards this link to a local New York City news station's feature on a combination gas station and kosher delicatessen. Here's the link. The reporter gets bollixed up on her Yiddish--what is gefilte fish anyway, she wants to know--but her enthusiasm is infectious.

Bruce Kesler of Encinitas, California,passes along a satirical piece in Pajamas Media by David Solway "admitting" to an International Jewish Conspiracy--and suggesting that many countries are unwittingly helping it along. Commentary on the commentary, included on the website, wonders if anti-Semites out there will take Solway's piece seriously, and reprint it in their own media.

J.J. Surbeck of Encinitas, California, sends us a recommendation for the book, Muslim Women Reformers, by Ida Lichter, and he comments: "The result of extensive research by Ida Lichter, an Australian Psychiatrist, it describes close to a hundred women all over the Muslim world who are fighting within their own respective socieites to change Islam. In a series of vignettes, she shows us their struggles and their often precarious positions. It is also a ringing testimonial to their courage. ..."