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November 2000

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (JTA) — Pressure is mounting on Israel to allow the “internationalization” of the Middle East crisis. Supporters of the Palestinian cause renewed their push this week for the U.N. Security Council to send a force of 2,000 unarmed military observers to the West Bank and Gaza to “protect” Palestinian civilians. Meanwhile, […]

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 29 (JTA) – Israel’s political system has shifted into election mode. After Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s dramatic announcement in the Knesset on Tuesday that he would agree to early elections, representatives from the governing coalition and the opposition are planning to meet early next week to begin negotiations on setting a date for […]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (JTA) – Minority voters in Florida have been disenfranchised, says a Jewish activist. That, he said, makes the presidential vote recount a civil rights issue – therefore a Jewish issue. “Jews should be helping others,” said Rabbi Steven Jacobs, spiritual leader of Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills, Calif., who has traveled to […]

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