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NEW YORK, June 13 (JTA) — As the funeral of Hafez Assad neared, two Sephardi Jewish leaders from Brooklyn rushed to Kennedy airport, armed with private invitations to the ceremony for the late Syrian president. Assad dealt “earnestly and honestly with the Jewish community,” said one of the men, Jack Kassin. His father, Saul Jacob […]

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PRAGUE, June 15 (JTA) — A former Nazi SS officer is behind bars in Germany on suspicion of murdering a Jewish slave laborer in September 1943. Anton Malloth, 88, was arrested May 25, but Bavarian prosecutors did not release details until Wednesday after inquires by JTA regarding his whereabouts. Malloth, who has been living in […]

MOSCOW, June 13 (JTA) — Escalating tensions in the Russian Jewish community exploded for all to see this week as authorities arrested Vladimir Goussinsky, the media tycoon who also serves as the president of the Russian Jewish Congress. Tuesday’s arrest, reportedly on charges of fraud and embezzlement, came just hours after 26 Lubavitch rabbis gathered […]

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