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Indigestion At Prayer Breakfast Next week’s 47th annual congressional prayer breakfast in Washington is expected to attract upwards of 3,600 participants — and more than its usual share of controversy. One reason: the apparent inclusion of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat on the guest list. Congressional planners of the event refuse to disclose foreign dignitaries who […]

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Jerusalem — Having successfully recovered millions of dollars worth of Jewish property lost in the Holocaust, restitution experts in Israel and the U.S. are now setting their sights on the Arab world. The Knesset Parliamentary Committee on the Restitution of Jewish Property announced plans this month to create a national center to register documents and […]

The question to international businessman Ronald Lauder was clear and succinct: “Did you give money to Benjamin Netanyahu for his election campaign?” And the answer, said Leon Levy, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, was equally clear. “He said no, he had not,” recalled Levy, who headed the […]

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