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NEW YORK, May 3 (JTA) — When the Israeli Consulate here sent a team of employees to Kennedy Airport this week, offering funds for Israelis in distress, it was not responding to a natural disaster or act of terrorism. Instead, the consulate — along with Jewish organizations like Chabad and Hatzalah — was helping those […]

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JERUSALEM, May 3 (JTA) — Despite a stepped-up U.S. role in Israeli-Palestinian talks, negotiators may have to postpone a deadline for reaching an outline of a final peace accord. After joining the talks at the Red Sea resort of Eilat on Wednesday, U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross said it may take up to another […]

JERUSALEM, May 2 (JTA) — Two “down payments” that Ehud Barak offered to make this week have provided political pundits with the raw material for a series of jokes at the expense of the increasingly beleaguered prime minister. Barak has promised his largest coalition partner, the fervently Orthodox Shas Party, a multimillion-dollar payment in the […]

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