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WASHINGTON, July 14 (JTA) — Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity on both sides of the Atlantic, the United Nations was set to open a conference in Geneva on Thursday to criticize Israeli settlement activity. Organized at the request of the U.N. General Assembly, the signatories to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which governs the treatment […]

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JERUSALEM, July 14 (JTA) — More than 1,000 Orthodox women this week attended Israel’s first conference on the status of women in their community. Amid growing frustration on an array of issues, participants at the conference, sponsored by Bar-Ilan University and a nascent organization called Kolech, the Religious Women’s Forum, grappled with subjects ranging from […]

WASHINGTON, July 15 (JTA) — The White House officially ended three years of testy diplomatic relations with Israel this week as it rolled out the red carpet for Israel”s new prime minister. But Ehud Barak”s relations with organized American Jewry got off to a more rocky start when some Jewish officials criticized the prime minister […]

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