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NEW YORK, April 20 (JTA) — When the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state on Nov. 29, 1947, the Arabs rejected it. Now, it is the Israelis who are reiterating their long-held position that U.N. Resolution 181— also known as the Partition Plan — is “null and void.” […]

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 20 (JTA) — The country implodes due to economic crisis or ethnic conflict and Jews are torn between staying and going. Many leave and the community, still struggling to recover from the Holocaust and communism, suffers irreparable damage. It is, by now, a familiar pattern of Jewish life in the Balkans, and […]