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WASHINGTON, March 20 (JTA) — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are resuming peace talks here this week and President Clinton has set a meeting with Syria’s president, but don’t tell the details to Julianne Berkon, a campaign associate with the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. She’ll get too angry. It’s not that she doesn’t care about […]

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NEW YORK, March 20 (JTA) — How is this Haggadah different from all other Haggadahs? By being a Reconstructionist Haggadah, the first put out by Judaism’s smallest religious denomination since its founder, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, edited one in 1941 as the debut publication of his nascent movement. The newly published “A Night of Questions: A […]

NEW YORK, March 20 (JTA) — A recently published Passover Haggadah doesn’t tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Instead “A Survivors’ Haggadah,” written by a Holocaust survivor in Germany in 1945 and 1946 and republished this year by the Jewish Publication Society, uses the language of the traditional Exodus story to talk about […]

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