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100 years of Vatican-Jewish relations

JERUSALEM, March 12 (JTA) Following are some of the high and low points of Vatican-Jewish relations during the past century: 1904 Pope Pius X rejects Theodor Herzl’s request that he support the Zionist movement. 1919 Vatican warns of the danger of a Jewish state, just two years after the Balfour Declaration is […]

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Pope ignores Holocaust in apology

NEW YORK, March 12 (JTA) The Vatican has again missed a historic opportunity to apologize for its silence during the Holocaust, say many Jewish leaders. Pope John Paul II issued a broad apology Sunday for sins committed by the church throughout the ages, including those against the Jews. But the pope, who has worked […]

Macedonia’s Jews: 200 strong and tight-knit

SKOPJE, Macedonia, March 13 (JTA) “I’m so excited I can hardly talk,” said Yehuda Alboher. Born in the Macedonian town of Bitola, Alboher immigrated with his family to Palestine as a small child in 1932. Over the weekend he was formally presented with a Macedonian passport during ceremonies marking both the destruction during the […]

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