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NEWS ANALYSIS Israel’s far right joins forces, boosting prospects for election

JERUSALEM, March 9 (JTA) — The far right of Israel’s political spectrum has succeeded in merging its various feuding factions into a solid electoral bloc that has a good chance of scoring well in the upcoming elections. Haunted by the memory of past failures to join forces at election time, leaders of the Herut, Moledet […]

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FOCUS ON ISSUES Yad Vashem works feverishly to computerize names of victims

JERUSALEM, March 9 (JTA) — Faced with a deadline of March 31, an army of some 1,200 data entry clerks, software technicians, Holocaust scholars and other specialists are working feverishly to computerize the names of 3 million Holocaust victims from a collection of documents at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Recognizing that a […]

Vandals destroy Siberian shul as anti-Semitism rises in region

MOSCOW, March 9 (JTA) — The scourge of anti-Semitism sweeping across Russia has reached the frozen tundra of Siberia — and Jews are reacting with increased levels of emigration. Vandals this week went on a rampage at a synagogue in the city of Novosibirsk, destroying much of the synagogue in the attack. They demolished the […]

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