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WASHINGTON, March 26 (JTA) – American Jews might be expected to applaud the appointment of an Orthodox Jew as U.S. ambassador to Israel, but the possible nomination of Daniel Kurtzer has some Jewish groups worried. Currently the ambassador to Egypt, Kurtzer is widely believed to be the front-runner to replace Martin Indyk after Indyk steps […]

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MONTREAL, March 26 (JTA) – Canadian officials have confirmed that their government financed a brochure calling for Palestinians to realize the “Right of Return” by taking back homes and property lost inside Israel during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. An official with Canada’s Foreign Affairs department, however, denied charges that the Canadian government took a […]

MOSCOW, March 25 (JTA) — Russian Jewish leaders are speaking out against what is being seen as the Kremlin’s most serious attempt yet to decide who represents the country’s Jews. When the Lubavitch movement’s chief rabbi in Russia was named last week to a high-profile Kremlin advisory panel that includes leaders of all religions officially […]

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