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The Greek term for diaspora (διασπορά) also appears three times in the New Testament, where it refers to the scattering of Israel, i.e., the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel as opposed to the Southern Kingdom of Judah, although James (1:1) refers to the scattering of all twelve tribes.
The page 2 shows the map of the Land of Israel In 1820, in a precursor to modern Zionism , Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island, New York in the Niagara River , to be called "Ararat" after Mount Ararat , the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark .
Initially, most went to Israel, but after 1976, the majority began immigrating to the United States, which had a policy of treating Soviet Jews as refugees under the Jackson-Vanik amendment. In total, some 291,000 Soviet Jews were granted exit visas between 1970 and 1988, of whom 165,000 immigrated to Israel and 126,000 to the United States. [3]
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[citation needed] Under "Aliyah", or the immigration of Jews of the Diaspora to Israel, an unspecified number of Mexican Jews have immigrated to Israel. In recent years Mexican business and engineering professionals have settled in African countries like Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa .
Rogen's remarks about Israel infuriated many Israel supporters and highlighted the country's tenuous relationship with young, progressive Jewish critics.
Between late 1961 and late summer 1962, 130,000 of Algeria's approximately 140,000 Jews left for France, while about 10,000 of them emigrated to Israel. [96] Their "repatriation" represents a unique case in the history of Jewish migration given that even though they were psychologically uprooted, they "returned" to France as citizens and not as ...