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BEHIND THE HEADLINES AIPAC delegates look to future despite cloud over U.S.-Israel ties

WASHINGTON, May 19 (JTA) — As pro-Israel activists gathered here this week for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee”s annual policy conference, this much was clear: There is no conflict or lack of clarity when it comes to backing Israel on its right to determine its own security requirements. Indeed, recent attempts by the United […]

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Kafka, prophet of 20th century, finds home with ‘Seinfeld’ fans

NEW YORK, May 26 (JTA) — It’s an absurdity that Franz Kafka himself would appreciate. Some 1,500 people recently crowded into New York’s Town Hall for an evening devoted to a new translation of an unfinished novel that its author, now dead, had asked not be published. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Remnick put it […]

10-year sentence for Papon evokes relief and bitterness

BORDEAUX, France, April 2 (JTA) — For many Jewish leaders in France and elsewhere, the punishment did not fit the crime. After 19 hours of deliberation, a jury in this southwestern French city convicted Maurice Papon of complicity in crimes against humanity and sentenced the former Vichy official to 10 years in prison. The mixed […]

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