Rabbi Joshua Fass of the Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida has founded and directs a project called Nefesh B?Nefesh, encouraging aliyah (immigration to Israel) from North America. The project is offering to help potential olim face the bureaucratic, financial and professional obstacles in coming to Israel. The unique aspect of the project is that it offers financial assistance to those North American Jews who choose to settle in Israel, with the only condition being that the immigrant remain in the country for three years.
The project, according to Rabbi Stewart Weiss, writing in the Jerusalem Post, is rumored to have already raised as much as $10 million. Rabbi Fass hopes to bring over his first group of North American immigrants this summer. The potential immigrants, writes Rabbi Weiss, ?will be thoroughly screened, with priority given to those who can ultimately support themselves, who can contribute meaningfully to the State of Israel, and who have legitimate financial concerns impeding their aliya.?
For more information, see www.nefeshbnefesh.com.
The project, according to Rabbi Stewart Weiss, writing in the Jerusalem Post, is rumored to have already raised as much as $10 million. Rabbi Fass hopes to bring over his first group of North American immigrants this summer. The potential immigrants, writes Rabbi Weiss, ?will be thoroughly screened, with priority given to those who can ultimately support themselves, who can contribute meaningfully to the State of Israel, and who have legitimate financial concerns impeding their aliya.?
For more information, see www.nefeshbnefesh.com.