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August 24, 2000

VATICAN CITY, Aug. 24 (JTA) — An umbrella Jewish group dealing with Jewish-Catholic relations has bluntly told the Vatican that Pius IX doesn’t deserve to be a saint. Pius IX, a 19th-century pope who became infamous for ordering the 1858 kidnap of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy who had been forcibly baptized as a baby, […]

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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 24 (JTA) — The three-day celebration in one of Buenos Aires’ most popular parks last weekend was touted as an international festival of Jewish music and dance. But, as Argentine Jewish leaders made perfectly clear, the event, attended by 30,000 people, was actually sponsored by “messianic Jews” who want to persuade Jews […]

Jerusalem – While their students savored every minute of summer vacation, an international group of senior educators spent part of their holiday break in an Israeli classroom. A varied mix of Hebrew day school professionals attended the Principal’s Seminar on Jewish Education in the Diaspora at Bar Ilan University’s Lookstein Center, which ran from July […]

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