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MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (JTA) — When economic conditions worsened in the middle of 1998, some Russian Jewish officials spoke about a possible exodus of Jews to Israel. That exodus failed to materialize, but emigration from Russia did increase during the last few months of 1998, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. Some 46,020 immigrants […]

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LONDON, Jan. 31 (JTA) — Syria is expected to conclude a massive arms deal with Russia later this month that strategic analysts say will significantly erode, though not actually destroy, Israel’s qualitative military edge. The deal, estimated to be worth between $2 billion and $3 billion, has been in the works for two years and […]

FRANKFURT, Jan. 31 (JTA) — A German bank has announced it will consider making compensation to Holocaust survivors. The announcement came after an independent study showed that the Dresdner Bank traded in Nazi-looted gold, much of which had been looted from Holocaust victims. But the report, compiled by the Dresden-based Hannah Arendt Institute for Research […]

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