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…Yassir Arafat Appears On Israeli Television TRADITION. Isn't there one more worth carrying on? Friday night. The end of the week. The beginning of Shabbat. A time to relax, reflect and renew. And as much a part of this tradition as the candles and the challah was knowing the weekly Jewish News had also arrived. It brought news about the community, the nation and the world. Today, that tradition hasn't changed. In fact, it's gotten better. E...…
…President's Column by Eli Scherr KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL e are all aware of the tremendous financial burdens placed in Israel these last few years due to the homecom- ing of tens of thousands of Ethiopian and Russian Jews. At the same time, our domestic recession, which has sent bank rates below 4%, has put financial pressures on many of us individually at the very time when the fi- nancial demands in Israel are greatest. For many of us who ...…
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…Crown Heights And Beyond Is the tension between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn the harbinger of a national crisis? JAMES BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT THE DE TROI T JEWISH NEWS C 24 rown Heights: the very words have taken on an ominous tone for Jews around the country in the wake of the 1991 spasm of anti-Semitic vio- lence that even some moderate Jewish leaders now regard as the first genuine pogrom on American soil. In some ways, the co...…
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…:1 '1' Following the riots of August, 1991, police showed their strength. other, not on each other, and work to heal those rifts, and not allow those in- cidents to fracture the basic structural long-term interests of our relationship." J E WIS H N EWS Beyond New York How do the events in Crown Heights affect the already tenuous relationship between blacks and Jews in other parts of the country? Some say the neighborhood is so unique, wi...…
…An Uneasy Cairn Blacks and Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights lashed out at the media and outsiders, not at each other. DANIEL SCHIFRIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS rown Heights — Although residents of Crown Heights had just weathered one of New York's worst win- ter storms in decades, few of the black or Chasidic residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood felt like clear skies were ahead for them. But it wasn't fear or loathing of their neighbors t...…
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