For more information on PNW Region Israel programming, please contact: Barb Sherman Israel Affairs Commission regional chair Beth Shalom Congregation, Edmonton E-mail address : barbsherman@shaw.ca USCJ Israel webpage - http://uscj.org/Israel5237.html Petition Israel’s Prime Minister About Ethiopian Jews During a recent visit to Ethiopia, Rabbi Jerome Epstein, Executive Vice President of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, was appalled by the conditions in which many would-be emigrants to Israel were living and called upon the Israeli government and the American Jewish community to resume aid. USCJ's board of directors passed a resolution calling on Israel to consider the cases of each of the 8,700 Ethiopian Jews who wish to make aliyah. Join us in signing a petition to Israel’s prime minister requesting that the Ethiopian Jews now in Gondar be allowed to come to Israel.