Toby Axelrod (JTA)
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
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Fast Forward In Europe, Growing Number of Jewish Communal Leaders Are Women
Hanna Lorer, 80, a leading member of this small Jewish community in the Balkans, had never met a female rabbi or cantor until this summer. But when several came to Sofia for a conference on European Jewish women, Lorer met a few of them. “It was the first time that I had any contact with…
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Fast Forward Strong Germany-Iran Economic Ties Trouble Activists
Shareholder meetings usually are about profits. But at the scheduled May 15 meeting in Munich of Linde AG, a chemical company, a group of activists is expected to take the floor with a simple message: Don’t do business with Iran. The activists, from the German and Austrian group Stop the Bomb, say corporations along with…
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