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Bella Abzug remembered as ‘tikkun olam incarnate

NEW YORK, March 31 (JTA) — “It is the passing of an era,” Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said upon hearing of this week’s death of Bella Abzug, the first Jewish woman elected to Congress. She “was a spitfire,” said Forman, who worked with the Democratic lawmaker from New York […]

Controversy still swirling around conversion institute

JERUSALEM, May 5 (JTA) — A joint institute aimed at resolving the conversion crisis is moving forward despite protests by Israel’s Reform and Conservative movements and an impending renewal of the pluralism battle in court. The seven-member board of the Institute for Jewish Studies, set up by the Jewish Agency for Israel, includes five Orthodox […]

Russian, U.S. students bridge the miles with new exchange

NEW YORK, May 7 (JTA) — It was hard to imagine that the two sets of students — talking to face to face — were thousands of miles apart. Looking at each other on a big television screen, a dozen Jewish Russian university students in Moscow and twice as many Jewish Theological Seminary students in […]

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Bella Abzug remembered as ‘tikkun olam incarnate

Controversy still swirling around conversion institute

Russian, U.S. students bridge the miles with new exchange

U.S. official fires back at Jews as Netanyahu takes case to Hill

U.S. Supreme Court takes case involving El Al Airlines

FOCUS ON ISSUES Shedding light, not heat, on questions about Jewish genes

NEWS ANALYSIS Exasperated Albright hints at shift in U.S. peace policy

NEWS ANALYSIS Religious persecution bill gains momentum in Congress

Appointment of Israeli Arab creates political controversy

Tour of Satmar school provides rare glimpse of girls’ education

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