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NEW YORK, August 1 (JTA) — Ever since the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israeli forces captured eastern Jerusalem, North American Jews have generally echoed the mantra of an “eternal and undivided” Jerusalem. But with compromises on the status of Jerusalem dangled at Camp David, all that may dramatically change. Many segments of the community were […]

PRAGUE, July 31 (JTA) — A leading American rabbi is calling on the Czech minister of culture to apologize for writing an “anti-Semitic and outrageous” article in a Czech newspaper on the controversy surrounding a medieval Jewish cemetery in Prague. Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the North American Boards of Rabbis, said the article in […]