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With an abundance of talented musicians of all genres, visitors and locals are spoiled for choice when it comes to sounds in the White City.

The next few months were nothing like what we had imagined when dreaming about our new life in Israel. The reality of living in this land hit hard. My sister and I stayed with my grandmother at the immigrant absorption center so that my parents could go out and build us a life, having barely any money and not knowing the language. This was not the modern, spotless, organized, or perfect land of their dreams, but looked and felt more like a wilderness. After a miserable experience looking for an apartment in the South of Israel where we had some distant relatives, my parents saw an ad about a...

Seven Gables to host community conversation about immigration Community Content The House of the Seven Gables will host a community conversation about the ways immigrants have brought their energies and talents to the U.S. on Thursday, March 24, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.  Sponsored by The House of the Seven Gables, the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions program introduces short documentary films made by immigrants about fellow immigrants. The filmmakers and the subjects of the films will join those in attendance for a conversation. This event is free of charge though donations are gratefully accept...

Share: Latin American Jazz artists - Claudia Acuña, Magos Herrera, and Felipe Salles - share their personal stories and reflections on immigration reform in a new virtual concert series on Third Row Live NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (PRWEB) February 26, 2021 The lives of immigrants are a dialogue between the memory of what was left behind and the assimilation of new experiences. Perhaps it is their liminality - their sense of simultaneously being ostracized and embraced - that enables these Latin American artists to approach jazz, the most American of art forms, and make it their own. In response to...

Court rulings limit immigrant tax breaks The Supreme Court has upheld the Israel Tax Authority's narrow approach to exemptions for New Israeli Residents. Two new court rulings published in Israel in December 2020 cast some light on the interpretation of the tax benefits provided to New Residents (i.e. returning residents to Israel after more than 10 consecutive years of being foreign residents, those who lived abroad for 5 years and returned to Israel between 2007 and 2009, and new immigrants from 1 January 2007). Israeli tax residents are taxed in Israel on their worldwide income (subject to...