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NEW YORK, July 11 (JTA) — Due to overcrowding, parents at the Young Israel of New Rochelle, N.Y., synagogue are not able to pray with their children, many members cannot find a seat for Shabbat or holiday services and celebrations like Bar Mitzvahs must often exclude much of the community. The synagogue members have stared […]

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JERUSALEM, July 11 (JTA) — Haunted by a scandal that overshadowed his decades of service to the Jewish state, President Ezer Weizman has submitted his resignation. His resignation letter was delivered Monday to the speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, who will fill the largely ceremonial post until legislators vote for a new president on […]

JERUSALEM, July 9 (JTA) — On the eve of an Israeli-Palestinian peace summit this week in the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s government was threatened with collapse by an exodus of coalition members. Interior Minister Natan Sharansky of the Yisrael Ba’Aliyah Party was the first to submit his resignation Sunday. He cited Barak’s […]

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