; 1700: Judah he-Hasid leads some 1, 500 Jewish immigrants to the Land of Israel and settles in Jerusalem.

In 1700, Judah he-Hasid led the largest organized group of Jewish immigrants to the Land of Israel in centuries.

" The Ruin Synagogue "), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid (" Ruin of Rabbi Judah the Pious "), is a historic synagogue located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The synagogue was founded in the early 18th century by followers of Judah he-Hasid, but it was destroyed by Muslims a few years later in 1721.

In the winter of 1700, a group of around 500 Ashkenazim led by Rabbi Judah he-Hasid arrived from Europe.

It thus became known as the " Ruin of Rabbi Judah he-Hasid ".

He was a descendant of the great Kalonymus family of Mainz, and a disciple of Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ( Judah he-Hasid ), who initiated him into the study of the esoterica, at that time little known in Germany.

According to Menachem Waldman, a major wave of immigration from the Kingdom of Judah to Kush and Abyssinia dates back to the Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem, in the beginning of the 7th century BC.

The book ends with the prediction of the downfall of kingdoms, with one Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, as the Lord ’ s chosen leader.

* Judah the Prince, chief redactor of the Krishnah and second-century Jewish leader

Judah Beer was a leader of the Berlin Jewish community and maintained a private synagogue in his house which leaned towards reformist views.

Classical rabbinical sources refer to the passage "... a ruler came from Judah ", from, to imply that Judah was the leader of his brothers, terming him the king.

Since rabbinical sources held Judah to have been the leader of his brothers, these sources also hold him responsible for this deception, even if it was not Judah himself who brought the coat to Jacob.

Even if Judah had been trying to save Joseph, the classical rabbinical sources still regard him negatively for it ; these sources argue that, as the leader of the brothers, Judah should have made more effort, and carried Joseph home to Jacob on his ( Judah's ) own shoulders.

* Johanan, son of Kareah, mentioned as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety ( against the advice of Jeremiah – see ), after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor (, )

* Judas Maccabeus, also known as Judah the Hammer, leader of the Maccabean revolt ( 167 – 160 BCE ) against the Seleucid Empire

During Bar Kokhba's revolt against Roman Empire ( 132-135 ), the supreme religious authority Rabbi Akiva sanctioned Simon bar Kokhba to be a war leader, whereas during the 2nd century Judah haNasi was not only the supreme temporal leader sanctioned by Rome, but also edited the original work of the Mishnah which became the " de-facto constitution " of the world's Jewry.

Rabbi Judah the Pious ( Rav Yehuda Ha-Hassid ) of Regensburg was the foremost leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Judah, the eldest of the brothers and therefore their leader, merely dismisses this but Jacob is uncertain.

* Judah Alkalai ( 1798 – 1878 ), Serbian religious leader & activist

Lew Wallace's Judah Ben-Hur is sent to the galleys as a murderer but manages to survive a shipwreck and save the fleet leader, who frees and adopts him.

A few days after their arrival in the city, he-Hasid died, and without a leader, their messianic hopes dissipated and the community began to disintegrate.

In 17th-century Leiden, for instance, people opening their homes to services could be fined 200 guilders ( a year's wage for a skilled tradesman ) and banned from the city Throughout this, however, personal freedom of religion did exist, and was one factor – along with economic reasons – in causing large immigration of religious refugees from other parts of Europe.

* Claverhouse ( 1937 ) Gordon Daviot ( a life of the 17th-century cavalry leader John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee )

This hamlet is named after Chief Wyandanch, a leader of the Montaukett Native American tribe during the 17th-century.

* Garret Van Sweringen's Inn, a 17th-century inn founded by Garret Van Sweringen, a leader in St. Mary's City's development.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

* John Hutchinson ( Colonel ) ( 1615 – 1664 ), leader in the 17th-century Puritan revolt in Britain

In 1967, Powell spoke of his opposition to the immigration of Kenyan Asians to the United Kingdom after the African country's leader Jomo Kenyatta's discriminatory policies led to the flight of Asians from that country.

The loss was blamed on the uncharismatic new leader Melkert, the perceived arrogance of the PvdA and the inability to answer to the right-wing populist issues Fortuyn raised, especially immigration and integration.

The era's new strongman, Gen. Julio Roca, was the first Argentine leader to treat foreign policy on equal footing with foreign investment and immigration incentives, universal education and repression as instruments of national development.

; Jackie Boone: The granddaughter of Hiroko and John Boone ( raised with Nirgal ), she emerges as a leader of the Free Mars movement, but is seen to change her platform based on whatever keeps her in power ( e. g. changing from banning Earth immigration to allowing almost unlimited immigrants ).

The then party leader, Iain Duncan Smith, suspended the Monday Club's longstanding links with the party in October 2001, saying his party would have nothing to do with the organisation unless it stopped making " distasteful " remarks on race and immigration.

Melchior Wathelet, Jr., the son of Melchior Wathelet, Sr. who was minister in several Belgian and Walloon governments and the mayor of Verviers, is currently the junior minister of budget, asylum and immigration, and family policy, and became, at age 26, the leader of the French-speaking Christian Democrat fraction in the Belgian parliament.

Following her retirement in 1992, she was elected to the California Assembly, and became a leader on international trade, environmental protection, transportation and immigration.

He is recognized as the " national leader on comprehensive immigration reform ," and the top Latino elected official in the United States of America.

During an election-night television program, Bengt Westerberg, leader of the Liberal People's Party, left the studio in protest against New Democracy's immigration policy.

In August 2006, Tuckey had a public argument with Labor leader Kim Beazley over new immigration laws, ending with Tuckey calling Beazley a " fat so and so ".

With the rise in anti-Semitism and restricted immigration policies in the 1930s, the CJC was re-convened in 1934 and held the Congress ' second plenum in Toronto in January with Cohen's friend and close colleague, Samuel William Jacobs, a prominent Jewish leader and Member of Parliament becoming the revived Congress ' first president.

Unrest erupted in Syria when Faisal accepted a compromise with the French Prime Minister Clemenceau and with the Zionist leader Weizmann over the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine.

In August 1988, after the then opposition leader John Howard expressed his wish to control Asian immigration in Australia,

Signatures for referendums have been collected by parties across the political spectrum from the Northern League opposing a law on immigration in 1998 ( this was ruled as inadmissible by the constitutional court when presented ), all the way to the Italy of Values party when leader Antonio Di Pietro collected signatures in 1998 for a change in the electoral law to a full first past the post system.

The Old Lutheran and Neo-Lutheran movements spread to the United States with the Neo-Lutheran Wilhelm Loehe and the Old Lutheran free church leader Friedrich August Brünn both sending missionaies to newly arrived German immigrants in the Midwest and the immigration of groups like the Saxons, who settled in Missouri under Martin Stephan and C. F. W.

Party leader Winston Peters says the campaign issues are immigration, law and order, senior citizens, trade, and Māori affairs.

Gradstein has covered important events in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the return of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Gaza, the rise of Hamas, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Persian Gulf war, and two elections in Israel.

Following yet another election defeat in 2005, Holger K. Nielsen resigned as party leader, leaving behind a party which, having moved away from the mainstream in such vital areas as asylum / immigration / integration and management of the economy, and having abandoned its distinctive policy of EU-scepticism, was possibly in even harder search for a raison d ' etre than the one he took over.