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A Decade After Rwanda, War Stalks Congo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A decade after the genocide in neighboring Rwanda spilled over into this border town, unleashing years of warfare in this immense country, the scent of hatred is filling the air once again. Listen to Dieudonné Jacques Bakungu Mythondeke, a vice governor of North Kivu province, as he blasts Rwanda’s…
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A Decade After Rwanda, War Stalks Congo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A decade after the genocide in neighboring Rwanda spilled over into this border town, unleashing years of warfare in this immense country, the scent of hatred is filling the air once again. Listen to Dieudonné Jacques Bakungu Mythondeke, a vice governor of North Kivu province, as he blasts Rwanda’s…
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Nazi-Looted Artwork At Issue in NPR Flap
National Public Radio has suspended a veteran New York arts journalist indefinitely after he prepared what the network called an unfair report on the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. The report, by freelance journalist David D’Arcy, focused on a legal struggle for control of a painting looted by the Nazis from a Viennese Jewish art…
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U.S., European Leaders Feud
BALTIMORE — Transatlantic tensions spilled over at an intimate gathering of Jewish philanthropists this week, when a British Jewish communal leader accused his American counterparts of being “almost imperialistic” and of exaggerating the extent of antisemitism in Europe. Tony Lerman, chief executive of the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation, one of Britain’s largest Jewish philanthropies, voiced his…
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World Cup Finals Riveting Israel
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon is conducting the political high-wire act of his life. Relations with Washington are tense over the planned expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Security agencies warn that Jewish extremists are planning their worst to stop the disengagement plan. Last week, however, those dramas took a back seat to…
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Newsdesk April 8, 2005
Mormons, Jews to Meet At a meeting in Salt Lake City next week, Jewish communal leaders are expected to ask top officials of the Mormon Church to halt the practice of posthumously baptizing Jews. Recent studies of a church database that tracks the postmortem rites have turned up numerous entries for Holocaust victims, synagogue members…
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Court’s Conversion Ruling Satisfies Few
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court touched off a wave of cheers and jeers with its 7-to-4 decision last week to recognize a new category of non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism. The March 31 ruling ordered the government to recognize the Jewish status of 17 Israeli residents who had traveled abroad for conversion by Reform or Conservative…
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Traveling The World — By Proxy
Right now, I feel tethered. I’m always holding someone, wiping someone, feeding someone. Someone is always sick. I go to the fridge, I lift my shirt, I put away the laundry, I type, I TiVo. There are days that I don’t go outside. (Seasons? What are these seasons of which you speak?) ’Twas not ever…
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World Cup Finals Riveting Israel
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon is conducting the political high-wire act of his life. Relations with Washington are tense over the planned expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Security agencies warn that Jewish extremists are planning their worst to stop the disengagement plan. Last week, however, those dramas took a back seat to…
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Lifting a Ray Of Sunlight From An Otherwise Bleak Historical Chapter
In July 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened a conference in Evian, France, to discuss the plight of Nazi-occupied Europe’s Jewish refugees. Thirty-two nations attended, but nearly all refused to open their borders. In a world turned upside down by war, only the Dominican Republic’s military dictator, Rafael Trujillo, agreed to let in Jews, effectively…
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Attacks Expected After Gaza Withdrawal
Israel’s military command expects a new round of Palestinian attacks this fall, after Israel completes its withdrawal from Gaza and northern West Bank. The assessment is based partly on the pace of weapons smuggling to the West Bank detected by intelligence agencies in recent months, and partly on intercepted orders from Damascus, according to a…
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