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Zalman's founder Moshe Zalman Olive at one of his hot dog restaurants (Courtesy)
October 12, 2026, 7:08 pm
Zalman’s looks to take a big bite out of Israel’s kosher hot dog market
The chain, founded by an immigrant from Chicago, hopes a NIS 3.5 million deal will help it expand from 12 branches to as many as 40 in the coming year
By Zev Stub
Author Helene Wecker. (Sheldon Wecker)
September 26, 2026, 7:54 am
Golem and Jinni bid bittersweet goodbye in final book of gripping fantasy trilogy
In long-awaited ‘The Gates of Midnight,’ author Helene Wecker moves mystical action ahead to eventful 1930 and explores legacy of Jewish immigration and assimilation in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 23, 2025, 5:34 pm
Over 1 in 4 Israelis considering leaving the country, poll finds
30% of Arabs, 26% of Jews thinking of emigrating, IDI says; secular Jews more inclined than religious; security, politics, employment and cost of living are top concerns
By ToI Staff
New immigrants arrive in Israel after a Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight, August 20, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
October 24, 2025, 9:48 pm
ANU Museum to honor immigrants on Aliyah Day with fair, tours, music
Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish People invites olim for multilingual celebration of immigration and Israeli identity
By Jessica Steinberg
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins stitches the first Blue Eagle label into a dress during a ceremony marking the inauguration of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) code label for women's dresses in New York City, January 22, 1934. (AP Photo)
May 19, 2025, 4:37 am
How trailblazing US labor secretary Frances Perkins quietly lobbied for Holocaust refugees
While the labor activist is famous for being the first female Cabinet member, on the 60th anniversary of her death, a new book explores her overlooked efforts to help Jews fleeing the Nazis
By Rich Tenorio
Jews For Racial and Economic Justice rallies with coalition partners at New York's City Hall to demand New York remain a 'sanctuary city' in light of US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, January 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFREJ via JTA)
February 10, 2025, 1:57 am
US Jews have long advocated on behalf of immigrants. Is that changing under Trump 2.0?
As Jewish immigrant-rights groups dust off their playbooks from 2016, they face a communal reorientation spurred by Oct. 7 and, some say, a general sense of liberal exhaustion
By Andrew Lapin
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 21, 2025, 9:30 am
Trump leaves WHO and climate accord, among massive changes to US policy on first day
Executive orders aimed at wiping out Biden’s legacy include freezing TikTok ban, rolling back transgender rights, limiting immigration, halting foreign aid spending
By AP
A family of immigrants to Israel, part of the stories being told at Yom Haaliyah event on November 7, 2024 at Anu Museum of the Jewish People. (Credit: Yonit Shiller)
November 3, 2024, 7:24 am
TLV museum to celebrate immigrants with storytelling, food, music
To mark the eve of Yom HaAliyah, the ANU Museum of the Jewish People’s event will include performances, archival screening to celebrate those who immigrated to Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Rabbi Cary Kozberg of Temple Sholom in Springfield, Ohio, in 2016; a mural in Springfield, Sept. 16, 2024. (Courtesy of Dayton Jewish Observer; Luke Sharrett/Getty Images via JTA)
September 21, 2024, 4:59 am
Springfield’s Trump-voting rabbi claims Haitian immigrants lack ‘Western civilized values’
Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg admits there is no basis to the former president’s claims that Haitian townsfolk are eating resident’s pets, but complains they are not trying to assimilate
By Andrew Lapin
Smoke billows as police officers face off protesters in Liverpool on August 3, 2024, during the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration held in reaction to the fatal stabbings in Southport on July 29.(Peter Powell/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 9:27 pm
UK preparing for more far-right riots after murder of three children
PM Keir Starmer says authorities must ‘stay on high alert’ after week of nearly daily unrest saw almost 600 people arrested
By Joe JACKSON
Construction of new residential buildings on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, May 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 6, 2024, 7:06 pm
Israel improves tax breaks for new immigrants to help first-time homebuyers
Tax changes seek to lower the costs for new immigrants on first-home purchases worth up to NIS 6 million, while cooling demand for investors to bring down housing prices
By Sharon Wrobel
Lidia Katliarski, right, with her husband and collaborator, Igor Katliarski, in front of one of their painted bomb shelters in Nahariya, spring 2024. (Lidia Katliarski)
July 5, 2024, 11:37 am
After fleeing Ukraine war, wife-husband artist duo paint bomb shelters near Lebanon
Six miles from the Lebanese border, new immigrants Lidia and Igor Katliarski bring life to concrete havens by covering them with murals, giving locals a momentary respite from war
By Diana Bletter
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a US Border Patrol station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on January 08, 2024. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)
February 7, 2024, 8:57 am
Mayorkas impeachment fails, amid objections by Jewish groups over antisemitism
Community groups say process invoked anti-immigrant ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy against Jewish homeland secretary, as GOP rails against administration over influx of migrants
By Ron Kampeas
People gather as they protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, January 20, 2024. (Michael Probst/AP)
January 21, 2024, 12:39 pm
250,000 protest in Germany against far-right AfD over talk of mass exportation plans
Wave of mobilization sparked by an investigative report that party members discussed expulsion of immigrants and ‘non-assimilated citizens’ at a meeting with extremists
By AFP
Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 2, 2023, 11:07 am
Alice Shalvi, trailblazing feminist and educator, dies at 97
The Israel Prize laureate, longtime principal of Jerusalem’s revered Pelech school for girls and founder of Israel Women’s Network, was an agent for change
By Jessica Steinberg
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