The U.S. announcement that full diplomatic ties have been re-established between the United States and the Vatican for the first time in 117 years is greeted with mixed reactions from national Jewish spokesmen who are involved in Vatican-Jewish relations.
Reagan tells a group of broadcast evangelists in Washington that Americans have no need to fear the future because “we have a promise from Jesus to soothe our sorrows, heal our hearts and drive away our fears.”
Anti-Semitic vandalism and other attacks against Jewish institutions, businesses and homes declines substantially in 1983 for the second year in a row, according to the annual audit conducted by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
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