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Y.U. confronts fault lines of modern Orthodoxy

NEW YORK, March 20 (JTA) For 25 years, Rabbi Norman Lamm has been not only the president of Yeshiva University, but the unofficial president of modern Orthodoxy in America. Both the university and this wing of Orthodoxy have a mission of “Torah u’maddah” literally, Torah and science balancing Jewish learning and strict […]

Macedonian Jews make appeal for peace

ROME, March 20 (JTA) As fighting between Macedonian troops and ethnic Albanian rebels threatens to escalate into full-scale Balkan warfare, Macedonia’s tiny Jewish community is calling on world Jewry to help preserve the fragile peace. “We, the Jews of Macedonia, are very concerned by the current violence that threatens to destroy the multiethnic harmony […]

Slovak Jews bring Germany to court

PRAGUE, March 20 (JTA) With only days to go before Slovak Jews take on the German state in a Berlin courtroom, Jewish community leaders in Slovakia have found a key document that could help them win their case. The Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities, based in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, hopes to […]

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Y.U. confronts fault lines of modern Orthodoxy

Macedonian Jews make appeal for peace

Slovak Jews bring Germany to court

Israelis expect action as Sharon returns from D.C.

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Sharon pleased by U.S. stance

Rabbinical seminaries: It’s lonely at the top

German Jews wait for opening of first liberal seminary

Experts say Arafat’s in control

Fewer Russian Jews immigrating to Israel

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