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JERUSALEM, Jan. 25 (JTA) — U.S. officials have invited experts from Israel and Syria to come to Washington, but neither side is willing to show up. Israel’s chief negotiator with Syria, Uri Saguy, and Defense Ministry adviser Moshe Kochanovsky were supposed to depart for Washington on Tuesday, but Prime Minister Ehud Barak postponed their trip […]

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NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (JTA) — Rabbi Irving Greenberg, an influential scholar and religious leader, is about to take another national position. President Clinton is expected to appoint Greenberg to head the voluntary council overseeing operations at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, according to White House sources. A longtime council member, Greenberg is […]

BERLIN, Jan. 25 (JTA) — Although Germany agreed to create a $5.2 billion compensation fund for Holocaust-era slave laborers late last year, some difficult bargaining still lies ahead. Representatives of the former slave laborers charge that the German government has reneged on an agreement that the laborers would still receive payments even if they had […]

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