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August 1998

JERUSALEM, Aug. 30 (JTA) — As the world markets go, so goes the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The gloom plaguing the world financial markets caused the Tel Aviv exchange to drop by more than 2 percent Sunday. For the month of August, the value of stocks traded on the exchange fell by nearly 10 percent. […]

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NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (JTA) — An experiment in religious pluralism is unfolding in Atlanta, where a new synagogue is bringing together, under one roof, Jews connected with each of the four main movements of Judaism — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist. The newly established Congregation Shema Yisrael currently meets in a hotel and works […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (JTA) — A recent news item reported that the former summer home of Albert Einstein in the Berlin suburb of Caputh, which the Nazis eventually confiscated from “the enemy of the people Einstein,” will be returned to the heirs of the famed physicist. The brief item took me back some 60 […]

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