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News Putin’s Terror Crackdown Puts Activists in a Quandary
For Jewish communal leaders who came of age during the fight for the freedom of Soviet Jewry but who have now shifted their focus to the fight against Islamic terrorism, events in Russia last week presented a special dilemma. After the hostage siege in the Russian town of Beslan, the Jewish community in the United…
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News Israel Criticizes Report On Swiss Holocaust Funds
Lawyers for the State of Israel issued a strongly worded rebuke of recommendations submitted to a U.S. federal court last week on how to distribute any remaining money from the $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement. Israel sent a memorandum to the court Tuesday criticizing last week’s report by Judah Gribetz, the court’s “special master” or…
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News U.S. Advice To Israelis: Don’t Start Syria Talks
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration recently advised the Israeli government against taking up the offer of Syrian President Bashar Assad to resume peace negotiations, Israeli and American diplomats in Washington confirmed. The administration, according to sources, voiced several concerns regarding Assad’s recent public claims that he is willing to resume peace negotiations with Israel. The…
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News Jewish Agency Maintains Funding Split
After months of heated political battles, the Jewish Agency for Israel has managed to thwart efforts to cut its funding from American charitable federations. Faced with shrinking donations from federations and changing needs abroad, the federations’ national roof body, the United Jewish Communities, had spent the past year in a messy tug-of-war over whether to…
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