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ROME, June 6 (JTA) — When Yechiel Bar Chaim, the Paris-based Yugoslavia program director for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, checked his e-mail last week he found an emotion-laden message from a Yugoslav correspondent. “PEAAACCCE!” the message said. The Yugoslav “Parliament accepted!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOO HAPPPYYY THAT IT IS PEACE!” The prospect of a […]

LONDON, June 3 (JTA) — Unlike the legendary Oskar Schindler, Albert Gustave Bedane’s acts of courage were not enacted in the horror-filled world of wartime Poland. His heroism was played out on British soil — on the Nazi-occupied Channel Island of Jersey, which now glories in a reputation as a tax haven and home to […]