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:
“Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman’s involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)