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News Shifting Political Alliances Raise Alarm for U.K. Jews
British Prime Minister Tony Blair goes to the voters next week to seek a third term, following a brief but heated election campaign in which his most controversial decision, taking his nation to war in Iraq, hardly played a role. But while the Middle East appears to have caused few problems for Blair during the…
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News Newsdesk April 1, 2005
Chess Masters Slam Jews The two combatants in the world’s most famous chess match, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, have both generated recent headlines with antisemitic statements. Fischer, who won the classic 1972 match, launched into his standard anti-Western and anti-Jewish diatribes after he was freed last week from a Japanese prison, where he was…
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News Student Overdoses
Four American yeshiva students were arrested in Jerusalem in a sting operation Tuesday for dealing drugs, The Jerusalem Post reported. The arrests of the three 18-year-olds came a day after the death of a 19-year-old American yeshiva student from an apparent drug overdose. The 19-year-old, identified as Erik Nathan Fogel, was found dead near the…
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News U.N. Committee Passes Resolution
In what Israel and its supporters called a breakthrough, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday calling for the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, including antisemitism. The resolution, which is expected to be voted on by the whole General Assembly soon, recognized “with deep concern…
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News Qualms About Bush’s Leadership
Support for President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war has dropped among American Jews during the past year, according to a new poll released by the American Jewish Committee. American Jews stand well to the left of the overall American population on a broad range of domestic and foreign-policy issues, and are much…
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News Newsdesk July 16, 2004
Iranian Role Disputed Just days before the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires, the Swiss federal office laid to rest one of the most intriguing investigative leads in the case by announcing Tuesday that no evidence had been found of Swiss bank accounts being used to fund the…
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News Newsdesk July 9, 2004
Austrian President Dies Austrian President Thomas Klestil, the first head of the Alpine state to visit Israel, died Tuesday, two days before his scheduled retirement. Klestil became president in 1992 and restored the reputation of the Austrian presidency after his predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, was revealed to have had links to the Nazis. He also opposed…
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News Newsdesk July 2, 2004
Survivors’ Funds Released Before the end of August, $174 million will be released to Holocaust survivors by a German foundation set up to compensate slave laborers from the Holocaust era. A similar amount also will be released to non-Jewish survivors. The money comes from interest earned on the $5.5 billion original compensation settlement with German…
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