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NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority is working to get the weight of the world behind the idea of a Palestinian state, and the effort is causing mounting concern among Israeli officials. The push over the last year has occurred in what Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations sees as a “strategy […]

FRANKFURT, Dec. 31 (JTA) — Fulfilling a landmark agreement reached one year ago, Germany has begun making monthly pension payments to Holocaust survivors living in Eastern Europe. About 800 survivors, mainly in the Czech Republic and Baltic countries, have already begun receiving the payments of some $150 per month, according to Karl Brozik, director of […]