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JERUSALEM, Feb. 14 (JTA) — Eight months into what he himself has termed the crucial first year of his premiership, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is facing serious unrest in the ranks. Several of Barak’s Cabinet ministers are publicly airing their dissatisfaction with the escalating military situation in southern Lebanon and the latest deadlock in […]

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LONDON, Feb. 14 (JTA) — Holocaust revisionist David Irving has no right to call himself a historian, according to a leading scholar of Nazi Germany. Richard Evans, a professor of modern history at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University, made the remark last week while testifying in the trial here where Irving is suing American historian Professor […]

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (JTA) — Jewish higher education is booming across the former Soviet Union. Courses in Judaica are currently being taught at nearly 100 universities and other academic institutions across the former Soviet Union, and every prestigious university in Russia has opened or is going to open a department for Jewish or biblical studies. […]

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