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JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 (JTA) — Since the outbreak of Palestinian violence in late September, Israeli commentators have adopted a new tactic: publishing open letters to Jewish settlers in Israeli newspapers. Perhaps the most controversial such letter was written by A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s leading authors. Addressing his “brethren” in the West Bank and Gaza […]

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (JTA) – Minority voters in Florida have been disenfranchised, says a Jewish activist. That, he said, makes the presidential vote recount a civil rights issue – therefore a Jewish issue. “Jews should be helping others,” said Rabbi Steven Jacobs, spiritual leader of Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills, Calif., who has traveled to […]

TORONTO, Dec. 3 (JTA) — As Prime Minister Jean Chretien prepares for his return to Ottawa for a third consecutive majority government, he leaves behind a campaign that courted Canada’s Jewish vote as never before. At the height of the campaign, in which an unusual amount of mud was slung, Jewish Parliament member Elinor Caplan, […]

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