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JERUSALEM, March 5 (JTA) – Only in Israel would a government minister refrain from singing the national anthem. Saleh Tarif, the first Arab appointed to the Cabinet in Israel’s history, refused to sing Hatikvah during an event at the Tel Aviv fairgrounds at the end of an intensive week of struggle within Israel’s Labor Party […]

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ZAGREB, Croatia, Feb. 28 (JTA) – When Croatian Jews receive their census questionnaire this year, they’ll face a dilemma: Which nationality are they going to mark down? In the country’s 1991 census, fewer than 600 out of about 2,000 registered members of the nine official Jewish communities in Croatia formally declared themselves as Jews. The […]

JERUSALEM, Feb. 27 (JTA) – The public bloodletting that the Labor Party presented to the Israeli public this week has exposed the depth of disarray and confusion on the Israeli left following Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s massive defeat at the polls. Labor’s Central Committee ultimately voted by a 2-1 margin Monday to join Prime Minister-elect […]

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