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JERUSALEM, Aug. 7 (JTA) — Nadia Kahn, 24, doesn’t fit the typical image of an Israeli soldier in boot camp. She’s petite (5 foot 1), half-Asian (on her mother’s side) and training to be an archaeologist. Yet Kahn spent the last two months wearing baggy army khakis, toting an M-16, sleeping in an army tent […]

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MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (JTA) — Local officials and Jewish leaders in the Russian city of Ryazan appear to agree that the fire that damaged the city’s only synagogue earlier this month was arson, but not an outburst of anti- Semitism. But they disagree about the state of ethnic tension in Ryazan, located south of Moscow. […]

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (JTA) — Despite the drop in tourism to Israel after nearly a year of Israeli- Palestinian violence, one Israel experience program hopes to increase the number of young Jews it sends to Israel this winter. Through aggressive marketing and an array of special-interest trips, Birthright Israel hopes to draw 10,000 young […]

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