Activities
UIA is responsible for the oversight of funds raised by the Jewish Federations of North America UJA Annual campaigns in the United States for programs of UIA’s exclusive operating agent, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). An independent legal entity, UIA secures and monitors a grant from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration funds for the immigration and absorption of Jewish refugees to Israel from countries of distress. It is with JAFI as its partner, that UIA helps U.S. Jewry to fulfill its ongoing collective commitment to contribute to and participate in the building of the Jewish State of Israel.
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Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.”
—Jean Marzollo (20th century)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
—David Elkind (20th century)