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KIEV, Ukraine, April 18 (JTA) — In moves reflecting the turmoil in Ukraine’s organized Jewish community, two rival umbrella organizations have formed here in recent weeks. Last week, some of Ukraine’s leading Jewish groups summoned about 300 activists to Kiev to announce the founding of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine. The move took place one […]

WASHINGTON, April 6 (JTA) — Walking through the quietude at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jodi Rosensaft felt a chilling familiarity tugging at her. She had never been there before, but recognized the place all too well from her grandmother’s descriptions. Seeing the women’s camp, the crematoria and the infirmary in which her grandmother worked, the stories she had […]