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JERUSALEM, April 13 (JTA) — Israelis are watching the escalating tensions between the Palestinian Authority and Islamic militants with apprehension and uncertainty, wondering how the rift will spill over. On one hand, Israeli citizens remain on heightened alert for terrorist attacks after the fundamentalist group Hamas issued threats last week against Israeli targets. At the […]

NEW YORK, April 26 (JTA) — Nearly a decade ago, the news rocked the Jewish world: Slightly more than half of recently married Jews had wedded non- Jews. That finding from the first comprehensive study of American Jewry in two decades singlehandedly prompted a sea change in the course the Jewish community had long charted. […]