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NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JTA) — Jews don’t drink, the old myth goes. And now there’s scientific evidence to prove it. Two new studies are bolstering the view that Jews don’t drink as much as other Caucasians — and researchers attribute the difference largely to a genetic mutation that is found in a much higher […]

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JERUSALEM, Jan. 12 (JTA) — A Knesset vote aimed at setting back the cause of religious pluralism in Israel has been put on hold. In the latest in a string of victories for the Conservative and Reform movements, a Knesset committee refused this week to back a bill that would block the appointment of non-Orthodox […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JTA) — The vote has yet to be cast, but the contest for one of American Jewry’s top positions is all but decided. Ronald Lauder, cosmetics company heir and president of the Jewish National Fund, has been named unanimously by the nominating committee of the Conference of Presidents of Major American […]

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