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JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 (JTA) — Israeli and Palestinian officials are increasingly pessimistic that a significant breakthrough can be achieved in the peace process before President Clinton leaves office Jan. 20. Peace efforts suffered a new setback Monday when Israel canceled a negotiating session following the slaying of a Jewish settler in the Gaza Strip. Israeli […]

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MOGHILEV, Belarus, Jan. 15 (JTA) — Victor Shpuntov struggled to find the words in English. He had not spoken the language since his school days some 20 years ago, and his frustration was showing. “I understand about being Jewish,” Shpuntov eventually stammered. An engineer from Moghilev, a town in southern Belarus, Shpuntov was talking about […]

MOSCOW, Jan. 15 (JTA) — Despite 10 years of study by a joint Russian-Swedish commission, the mystery surrounding Raoul Wallenberg remains unsolved. The commission studying the case of the Swedish diplomat, who saved tens of thousands of Jews during World War II only to be arrested by Soviet agents in Budapest in 1945, issued two […]

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