Polish prisoners to renovate Jewish historical sites
By Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post, 23 June 09
The Polish government and a Jewish organization have signed an agreement under which prison inmates will help to refurbish Jewish sites. To read the article, click here.
Hillel at 85: Celebrating in Cyberspace
By Rebecca Baskin and Sam Greenberg, Jerusalem Post, 17 June 09
In lieu of its annual black-tie gala dinner, Hillel invited friends around the world to host their own parties. To read the article, click here.
Despite Economy, JDC Provides Services in Ukraine
Asher Ostrin, director, JDC’s FSU Department, Mar., 09
Ukraine’s economy is in the advanced stages of collapse. The currency (Grivna) is in free fall, and markets for the few goods it produces have constricted. The unemployment rate has remained steady only because labor laws make it difficult to fire employees. To read the article, click here.
Op-Ed: Venezuela should repair its ties to Jewish community
By Abraham Foxman, 30 Mar. 09
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Jews for hundreds of years have lived in Venezuela, which once served as a safe haven for Holocaust survivors and still is home to a significant Jewish community. To read the article, click here.
What Future for Ekaterina?
By Ruth Eglash, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 3, 08
From the worn-out wooden floorboards to the cardboard-covered windows, the Gudkova apartment would most likely be condemned if held up to Western standards. It's lucky, too, that the Gudkova family has Jewish roots and it is this connection that affords the three women their only income. All three are clients of the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee run-Hessed Center in this bleak Soviet-created Georgian town. To read the article, click here.
The History of Ethiopian Jewry
Global Jewish Populations
Argentina: 185,000
Australia: 101,000
Austria: 9,000
Azerbaijan: 7,200
Bahamas: 300
Belarus: 22,000
Belgium: 31,300
Bolivia: 500
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 500
Botswana: 100
Brazil: 96,800
Bulgaria: 2,200
Canada: 371,000
Chile: 20,800
China: 1,000
Colombia: 3,300
Congo: 100
Costa Rica: 2,500
Croatia: 1,700
Cuba: 600
Czech Republic: 4,000
Denmark: 6,400
Dominican Republic: 100
Ecuador: 900
Egypt: 100
El Salvador: 100
Estonia: 1,700
Ethiopia: 100
Finland: 1,100
France: 496,000
Georgia: 3,800
Germany: 112,000
Gibraltar: 600
Greece: 4,500
Guatemala: 900
Hungary: 50,000
India: 5,100
Iran: 10,900
Ireland: 1,200
Israel: 4,940,000
Italy: 28,800
Jamaica: 300
Japan: 1,000
Kazakhstan: 4,000
Kenya: 400
Kygryzstan: 700
Latvia: 8,900
Lithuania: 3,400
Luxembourg: 600
Macedonia: 100
Mexico: 39,900
Moldova: 5,000
Morocco: 4,000
Namibia: 100
Netherlands: 30,000
Netherlands Antilles: 200
New Zealand: 6,800
Nigeria: 100
Norway: 1,200
Panama: 5,000
Paraguay: 900
Peru: 2,400
Philippines: 100
Poland: 3,300
Portugal: 500
Puerto Rico: 1,500
Romania: 10,500
Russia: 244,000
Serbia-Montenegro: 1,500
Singapore: 300
Slovakia: 2,700
Slovenia: 100
South Africa: 74,000
South Korea: 100
Spain: 12,000
Suriname: 200
Sweden: 15,000
Switzerland: 18,000
Syria: 100
Thailand: 200
Tunisia: 1,200
Turkey: 17,900
Turkmenistan: 400
Ukraine: 89,000
United Kingdom: 299,000
United States: 5,290,000
US Virgin Islands: 300
Uruguay: 19,600
Uzbekistan: 5,200
Venezuela: 15,600
Yemen: 200
Zimbabwe: 500
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