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BEHIND THE HEADLINES Ousted Holocaust museum leader says he feels vindicated by report

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (JTA) — The former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is speaking out in the wake of a highly critical report that concluded the museum has been hindered by problems in governance and management. Walter Reich, who has remained largely silent in the year and a half since he resigned as […]

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Israeli official defends plea bargain for American teen accused of murder

JERUSALEM, Aug. 25 (JTA) — Israel’s attorney general is rejecting U.S. prosecutors’ criticism of a plea bargain reached with an American teen-ager who fled to Israel after a 1997 murder in Maryland. Elyakim Rubinstein told a news conference Wednesday that the deal, in which Samuel Sheinbein agreed to plead guilty to the brutal murder of […]

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Palestinians with ‘blood on hands’ are bargaining chips in negoti

JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 (JTA) — For five years, Ahmad Soub-Laban sat in Israeli jails. Soub-Laban had killed a neighbor he suspected of having collaborated with the Israelis and thrown gasoline bombs at Israeli policemen. Even now, he doesn’t regret a thing. “It was all in the service of our people,” said Soub-Laban, 28, now chairman […]

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Dagestan’s Jews fear Islamic rebels fighting Moscow, ‘Zionist&#82

Gefilte tastes aren’t just fish tales: They tell the story of Jewish ancestry

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Holocaust museum works on reforms after report criticizes its management

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Expert says Israel could face major quake in next 50 years

Palestinian intellectual fabricated his personal history, writer asserts

Israel, Palestinians report progress ahead of Albright’s visit to the region

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Holocaust museum works on reforms after report criticizes its management

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