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SHANGHAI, May 7 (JTA) — Gus Axelrod and Stuart Magloff sit with their families together on a recent Sunday and eat lox and bagels. It’s hardly a remarkable event, except for its location: Shanghai. China’s bustling financial center, home to about 13 million, is also a temporary home to about 200 Jews. Most, like Axelrod […]

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JERUSALEM, May 7 (JTA) — The Israeli government is proposing sweeping tax reforms aimed at addressing the widening gap between rich and poor in Israeli society. The reforms, proposed Thursday by the Finance Ministry and approved by the Israeli government on Sunday, are Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s first major economic policy move since he came […]

BERLIN, May 7 (JTA) — A Christian passion play that was once praised by Adolf Hitler as a “precious tool” against Jews will open again in Bavaria this month following a substantial rewrite with input from American Jewish leaders. Project adviser Rabbi A. James Rudin, national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, applauds […]

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