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PROFILE Lauder’s strength as a listener could serve him well in new role

NEW YORK, June 8 (JTA) — Ronald Lauder is known as a good listener, a trait that will be invaluable to him in his new role as chairman of an organization that represents 55 diverse Jewish organizations. Finding agreement on issues of concern to the American Jewish community will be the main task for the […]

FOCUS ON ISSUES Retracing ‘Freedom Summer’ steps: Organizers hope to renew old bonds

WASHINGTON, June 8 (JTA) — To the outside world, they seemed an unlikely trio: a black Catholic from Mississippi and two Jews from New York. But their fates were drawn together in the summer of 1964 by a common commitment to the struggle for equality and social justice. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner […]

Iranian Jews charged with spying amid stepped-up efforts for release

NEW YORK, June 8 (JTA) —Israel and the United States have strongly condemned the Iranian government for charging 13 Iranian Jews with spying for America and the Jewish state. Israel called for the immediate release of the detainees, and the United States criticized the arrests, saying, “They are a very disturbing signal.” Iran’s state-run radio […]

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PROFILE Lauder’s strength as a listener could serve him well in new role

FOCUS ON ISSUES Retracing ‘Freedom Summer’ steps: Organizers hope to renew old bonds

Iranian Jews charged with spying amid stepped-up efforts for release

Jewish-led party takes its place as the opposition in South Africa

Iranian Jews charged with spying amid stepped-up efforts for release

Legislators take oath of office as 15th Knesset holds first session

Shoah Foundation changes focus to improving access to testimony

Groups upset at the slow progress in bringing Ethiopian Jews to Israel

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Yugoslav Jews living in Budapest worry over whether to return home

AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD British group launches campaign to honor man as Righteous Gentile

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