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FOCUS ON ISSUES Jewish groups are debating who should get Swiss funds

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (JTA) — Four months after Swiss banks agreed to pay a whopping $1.25 billion to settle Holocaust-era claims, Jewish groups and attorneys are still debating who should get the money and how to distribute it. Jewish organizations and lawyers who represented Holocaust survivors in a class-action lawsuit against the banks agree the […]

The Prince of Egypt’ portrays Moses’ life in film for whole family

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (JTA) — After four years of intense preparation and months of drum-beating, “The Prince of Egypt” opened last week at theaters across the United States. Based loosely on the first part of the Book of Exodus, the animated musical film depicts the life of Moses before his 40 years of wandering […]

Germany weighs Jewish security after bomb rocks Berlin cemetery

FRANKFURT, Dec. 21 (JTA) — The destruction of the gravestone of one of German Jewry’s most prominent postwar leaders has triggered a discussion in Germany on the security of Jewish institutions and the spread of right-wing extremism. The director of the city’s department of the interior, Eckart Werthebach, said the bomb that destroyed the tombstone […]

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FOCUS ON ISSUES Jewish groups are debating who should get Swiss funds

The Prince of Egypt’ portrays Moses’ life in film for whole family

Germany weighs Jewish security after bomb rocks Berlin cemetery

Israel preparing for elections after premier loses Knesset vote

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Europeans ambivalent, divided over military strikes against Iraq

FOCUS ON ISSUES Ex-prisoners of Zion fighting for pensions and their dignity

Swiss get Jewish president who is proud of her heritage

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Jewish high school kids get a taste of D.C. politics

France protected Vichy officials who profited from Jewish assets

Bombing of Cape Town shul outrages South African Jewry

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