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What's New
Jewish Agency's Stalwart Spokesman Jankelowitz Retiring after 33 Years
Michael Jankelowitz, one of the Jewish Agency's "best spokesmen ever," according to chairman Natan Sharansky, is leaving the organization, after 33 years working there in different positions, most recently as spokesman to the foreign press.
Jankelowitz, who is widely respected for his broad knowledge of the inner workings of the Jewish organizational world, accepted an offer for early retirement.
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Remembering Yelena Bonner
When I asked Natan Sharansky to explain how Yelena Bonner complemented the work of her husband, Nobel Prize-winning Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, Sharansky said he could do so quite simply. “Let’s take the example of the Carter letter,” he told me.
In the first days of 1977, an American visitor to Moscow arrived at Sakharov’s apartment and offered to deliver to incoming president Jimmy Carter, a message from this renowned nuclear-physicist-turned-thorn-in-the-side-of-the-Communist-regime.
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Statement by Natan Sharansky, Soviet dissident, Prisoner of Zion and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, on the passing of Yelena Bonner:
"The Jewish world and the State of Israel have lost one of their most passionate champions. At the same time, the global community of democratic dissidents, political prisoners and human rights activists has lost one of its greatest leaders and advocates. Whereas Andrei Sakharov was the heart of our struggle to defeat the great evil of the Soviet system, Yelena Bonner was the engine that encouraged us to act.
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| Chairman's Corner
Natan Sharansky's Statement on Agreement With Israel's Ministry of Interior Regarding Conversion
Sharansky said: "The Jewish Agency has been the driving force in Aliyah since before Israel's founding, so it is completely natural that we will continue to play a critical role in determining who is eligible for automatic citizenship under the Law of Return. According to the criteria set by the State of Israel, any convert recognized by their own Diaspora community is eligible for Israeli citizenship. With emissaries in hundreds of Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora, the Jewish Agency is uniquely positioned to help the State of Israel determine the eligibility of Diaspora converts for Aliyah.
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