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Report: Israel will be home to most Jews in 2080

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (JTA) Migration to Israel is expected to almost double the country’s Jewish population to 10 million by 2080. Meanwhile, the number of Jews living in the United States is expected to drop by a third to just 3.8 million. Worldwide, the number of Jews is estimated to rise slightly during […]

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Holocaust survivors likely to get settlement

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (JTA) Jewish organizations looking for a piece of a historic $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement are likely to be disappointed. Instead, payments from the fund are likely to go solely to Holocaust survivors or their heirs, according to a document submitted to a U.S. court overseeing the settlement. The distribution […]

Singles: A ‘cool cat’ becomes my stepfather

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 (JTA) According to the state of Nevada, I now have a new dad. It’s not every day your mother has a shotgun wedding at a Las Vegas chapel, so it was a special moment. Who was holding the shotgun? Uncle Sam. It was a forced wedding of the new millennium […]

Czech Jews rebury ancient remains

Jewish women fight racism

Barak good-humored, defiant in U.S.

Temple gets rid of sticker shock

N.Y. synagogue is poster shul for renewal

Barak has domestic issues on his mind

Synagogues try to satisfy hunger for spirituality

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