Byline: Joel Brinkley New York Times
Two years after large numbers of Soviet Jews began moving to Israel, this nation's warm hopes and fond dreams for a comfortable union of two Jewish peoples are running afoul of cold economic reality.
The combination of limited resources, poor planning and mass immigration - 220,000 Soviet Jews have moved to Israel since the numbers began growing in March 1989 - seriously have reduced the country's ability to absorb the newcomers.
Now the problems have grown so severe that some officials are worried immigrants will stop coming, or that those already here will leave.
"We had better not make it too …
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