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WASHINGTON, April 24 (JTA) – Eager to show they stand alongside Israel during the ongoing violence with the Palestinians, North America’s Jewish federations are mobilizing for two national solidarity rallies in June. Simultaneous rallies – tentatively scheduled for Sunday, June 3 in New York and Los Angeles – will feature Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon […]

LONDON, April 24 (JTA) – Rabbi Julius Carlebach, who escaped Germany as a child and rose to become a leading scholar, died in Brighton, England, on April 17, at the age of 79. Honored by Germany for turning Heidelberg’s University for Jewish Studies into the country’s leading institution of its kind, Carlebach worked in a […]