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SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 3 (JTA) – A lot of people missed it, but Israel did win a medal – a bronze – at the 2000 Olympic Games. It happened on the final day of competition, in the final event in which Israel competed – the 500-meter kayaking race, which took place Sunday, the second day […]

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NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (JTA) – When word got out last week that Janet Engelhart had been named executive vice president of the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island – making her the only woman professional at the helm of one of the 40 largest federations – she received a flood of phone calls. Most were […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (JTA) – Vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman’s openness to meeting with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader condemned for his anti-Semitic remarks, has raised some eyebrows in the Jewish community. Many Jews, alternately elated with the prospect of a Jewish vice president and embarrassed by any negative press Lieberman generates, are questioning […]

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