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South Florida’s Jewish population grows

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 15 (JTA) More than 10 percent of all American Jews reside in the South Florida counties of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade. The Jewish population of these areas, which now stands at 644,000, increased by 30 percent during the past 20 years. These figures come from a new study, […]

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A more traditional Reform prayer book

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (JTA) The Gates of Prayer will be slammed shut when the new Reform movement prayer book, now being composed, is published by 2005. The as-yet unnamed volume being referred to by its creators as a siddur, the traditional Hebrew word for prayer book will be radically different than […]

Agreement reached for slave laborers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (JTA) Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal. After months of torturous negotiations, an agreement has been reached to establish a $5.2 billion fund for these victims of the Holocaust, according to several lawyers and […]

Russia goes to the polls

U.N. head seeks Jewish cooperation

Barak: Peace carries ‘heavy territorial price

Late Croatian strongman courted Jews, revised history

Kirk Douglas becomes a man

Plan deals with conversion and immigrant questions

Mixed feelings in the Golan about the price of peace

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