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PRAGUE, April 30 (JTA) — It was a struggle almost as frustrating as that of Joseph K., the victim of faceless bureaucracy in Franz Kafka’s most famous novel, “The Trial.” But on April 25, a Czech Jewish professor finally won a 37-year battle to have a Prague city center square named after Kafka, the city’s […]

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MOSCOW, April 30 (JTA) — Neo-Nazi youth groups in Russia are becoming more organized, according to Jewish officials and human rights activists. Teen-age street gangs that throughout the past decade were known for their use of Nazi symbols, anti-Jewish slogans and assaults on African students are turning into tightly knit and well-armed criminal groups with […]

WHIPPANY, N.J., April 24 (JTA) — American Jews say their personal identity as Jews is more affected by Israel’s peace policies toward the Palestinians than by its policies on religious pluralism. The margin was more than 2-to-1, with 44.6 percent saying Israel’s peace policies more strongly affected their Jewish identities, compared to just 19.8 percent […]

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