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DECEMBER 12
1923
Quota Victims to Be Admitted After All, Assistant Secretary of Labor States
1924
League Council in Private Session Considers Possibility of Rewording Mandates Commission Report
1926
Full Text of Kalinin Address at Ozet Conference in Moscow
1927
National I. O. B. B. Leaders Issue Statement on 'king of Kings'; Explain Position
1928
Resolution Presented in Congress on the Reform of the Calendar
1929
Arabs Make First Public Allegations That Jews Deliberately Fomented August Riots; Charge Executive S
1930
Jewish Shops Damaged in Bucharest As Students Riot; Foil Invasion of Synagogue
1931
Moslem Opposition to Grand Mufti Takes a Hand: Opposition Meeting Arranged in Jerusalem
1932
Reichstag Passes Amnesty Reducing Sentences of Pogromists and Desecrators of Cemeteries
1933
Hungary Yields to Demands for Numerus Clausus; Students Pledge Peace
1934
Danzig Jews Flee City As Nazis Reign
1935
Smilansky Urges New Curbs on Plantations
1937
Tegart Organizes "flying Squad" to Fight Arab Terrorists
1938
Noted Catholic, on Coughlin Network, Warns Against Bigotry Preachers As Priest Widens Attack
1939
Ash Remains of 600 Jews Shipped from Nazi Camps to Jews in Lodz
1940
Palestine Jews Strike As Government Moves to Deport Illegals
1941
Jewish Welfare Board to Aid Red Cross in Raising $50,000,000 War Emergency Fund
1943
Churchill-weizmann Talk in London Reported in Palestine; Zionists Hopeful
1944
Senate Committee Tables Palestine Resolution at State Department's Request
1945
U.S. Prosecution Presents Evidence of Nazi Crimes Against Jews to Nuremberg Court
1946
Fight over Partition Issue Starts at World Zionist Congress; General Debate Opens
1947
Today Debate on Palestine Opens in British Parliament; Mandate to End May 15
1948
Churchill Demands Recognition of Israel; British Govt. Says It is Not Prepared to Move
1949
U.N. Trusteeship Council Meets Tuesday to Begin Work on Jerusalem Statute
1950
Jordan and Israel Differ at U.N. on Plan to Internationalize Jerusalem Holy Places
1951
Joseph Sprinzak to Act As President of Israel, Officially Announced
1952
U.N. Votes for Direct Arab-israel Peace Talks; Arabs Opposed
1955
Community Disagreement Delays Naming of Jew to Moroccan Cabinet
1956
Israelis Hold Protest Demonstration in Front of Soviet Embassy
1957
Israel Alert to Arab Moves in Washington to Secure Revision of Boundaries
1958
Three-day National Conference of U. J. A. Opens Today in New York
1960
U.J.A. Adopts $72,740,000 Goal for 1961; Klutznick is General Chairman
1961
Eichmann Found Guilty; Reading of Judgment to Conclude Tomorrow
1962
U.S. Opposes Proposal for U.N. Custodian over Arab Property in Israel
1963
'auschwitz Trial' to Start in Frankfurt; Expected to Last Eight Months
1966
U.J.A. National Conference Adopts $75,620,000 Goal for 1967 Campaign
1967
Prime Minister Eshkol to Visit Washington in February As President's Guest
1968
Scranton Says Nixon Administration Will Offer Peace Plan for Middle East
1969
Synagogue Council Sets Meeting to Consider Vatican Call for Closer Jewish Ties
1972
Israeli Expert Brands Documents Proving Bormann Alive As a Hoax
1973
House Adopts Trade Act Banning Mfn, Credits to USSR by 272-140 Vote Vanik Bill Adopted by 319-80 Vot
1974
Scali Reaffirms U.S. Position That UN is Tyrannized by New Majority
1975
Report Beirut Synagogue Looted, Seriously Damaged in Fighting
1977
Lebanese Says Jordan Has Replaced PLO in West Bank Considerations
1978
Thousands of Mourners from Israel and Abroad File by Meir's Coffin
1979
Linowitz, Burg to Cairo to Discuss Autonomy Issues with Egyptians
1980
Swiss Protestant Churches Launch Petition Drive for United Jerusalem and for Expulsion of Aplo Repre
1983
Israel Refuses to Guarantee Arafat Safe Passage from Tripoli
1984
Rabin Indicates That Israel is Looking to the U.S. to Break the Deadlock in the Nakura Talks
1985
U.S. Team in Israel for Pollard Probe
1986
Rabin Defends Role of IDF in Quelling Riots in the Territories
1988
IDF to Investigate Its Raid on Terrorist Base Near Beirut
1989
Report Claims Iran Paid Abu Nidal to Murder Belgian Jewish Leader
1990
Shamir Leaves White House Session with U.S. Assurances on Gulf Crisis
1991
Israelis and Palestinians Try to Resolve Procedural Dispute
1994
Syria and Israel Agree to Resume Long-stalled Direct Negotiations
1995
News Analysis: with Nary a Peep from Israelis, Withdrawals Ply Full-steam Ahead
1997
Irving Bernstein, Key Player in Building Uja, is Dead at 76
1999
Late Croatian strongman courted Jews, revised history
2000
Anti-semitic Candidate Trounced in Romania, but His Party Remains
2001
Jewish Feud in Afghanistan Garners Global Media Spotlight
2002
Jewish Officials Press Mormons to Stop Baptizing Deceased Jews
2003
Jewish Elderly May Pay More for Drugs Under New Medicare Law
2004
Golan Israelis doubt Syrian peace
2005
Flow of Likudniks to New Sharon Party Strengthens P.m.'s Hand As Elections Near
2006
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2007
As Rivals Gain, Clinton and Giuliani Get a Lift from Jewish Survey
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