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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (JTA) — “I don’t feel like a hero,” 91-year old Annie Schipper said. “I did what I had to do.” What Annie and her husband Pieter “had to do” in 1942 was hide a young Jewish couple with a baby son in their small apartment in Amsterdam, at the risk of […]

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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (JTA) – The activities of one of Russian Jewry’s largest groups will continue despite the arrest of one of the Jewish community’s main financiers, a leader of the group said. Some Jewish activists had predicted the quick collapse of the Russian Jewish Congress as pressure on the business empire of RJC President […]

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (JTA) – The recent Palestinian violence and the resulting U.S. State Department advisory against travel to Israel is causing many American universities to rethink their support for study in Israel. That issue came to the fore this month as George Washington University first decided not to give credit to students studying […]

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