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Obituary Murray Zuckoff, JTA's Editor for Nearly 20 Years, Dies at 79 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Murray Zuckoff, a longtime JTA editor in chief, died Sunday in New York of lung cancer at age 79, af...
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Arnow Realigns JTA Editorial, Administrative Operations to Strengthen Agency's Structure - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Robert H. Arnow, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced today a number of administrat...
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Congressional Record Reprints JTA Analysis of Plight of Soviet Jews - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
An editorial on the significance of the Leningrad trial by Murray Zuckoff, news editor of the JTA Da...
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Newsweek Study of American Jews Was "factual" but Not Quite - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
An editor I knew many years ago had a habit of peering over the rim of his glasses while reading cop...
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Student Editors of Jewish Publications Set Sights for Developing Service - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Fifty editors and staff members representing Jewish publications on 37 college campuses in the Unite...
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Jewish Scholars Say Jewish Education Must Develop Comprehensive Approach - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A group of leading Jewish scholars said today that Jewish education must move from its strongly clas...
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The Eyes and Ears of the Jewish World - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency began its 54th year in 1971 of world-wide news coverage of Jewish affa...
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JTA Begins Expansion with Announcement of European and Mideast Bureaus - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s current program of reorganization and expansion was officially lau...
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The UN and the Mideast: History As Tragedy - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Middle East will be a topic for discussion at the 26th session of the United Nations General Ass...
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Rogers in the Un: from Initiative to Appeasement - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The speech by Secretary of State William P. Rogers at the General Assembly last week dispelled all t...
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The Sound of the Fury - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Several days ago a group of demonstrators carrying placards marched in front of an empty lot. A stat...
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French Jewry on the March - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In 1971 French Jews displayed a remarkable degree of self-confidence, heightened consciousness and i...
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Special JTA Interview Oskar Schindler: A Man for All Reasons - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“I hated the brutality, the sadism and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see ...
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Special JTA Interview the Forward: University of Life for the Jewish People - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Some 30 years ago the prophets of doom predicted that by the beginning of the current decade Yiddish...
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Behind the Headlines "sukkah in the Sky" - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Feast of the Tabernacles, Succoth, which was celebrated last week by Jews all over the world, ha...
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Behind the Headlines Plight of Soviet Jewry on Film - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“Escape to the Sun,” the first motion picture to deal with the plight of Soviet Jews trying to e...
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Arab Propaganda, Some of It Subtle, Makes Headway in Brazil - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pro-Arab propaganda is making steady inroads in Brazil in the form of articles in small town newspap...
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Soviet Jewry's Struggle Gets Little Support in Brazil - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
While the issue of Soviet Jewry is a top priority item on the agenda of American Jews and non-Jewish...
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Dultzin Claims Debate on Territories in Israel Gives Comfort to Arabs - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Arye Dultzin, Treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, said here last night that the current dis...
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Argentina Will Extradite Nazi Wanted for War Crimes by W. Germany - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Argentine government has agreed to allow West Germany to extradite to Bonn a former Nazi who has...
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Vatican Claim That Chile Refused to Admit Non Aryan Refugees During World War Ii Called Baseless - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Several Jewish and political leaders here characterized as baseless yesterday a statement in Vatican...
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Behind the Headlines Are Argentina's Jews in Trouble? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A general anxiety permeates the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. It isn’t actually fear but a per...
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Chile, Israel, in Exchange Programs - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli water irrigation experts have been invited to Chile to help this country study ways and mean...
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Behind the Headlines Oil Slick in Mideast Politics - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Oil is America’s most important business in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peni...
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Behind the Headlines Chilean Jewry Faces Uncertain Future - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
It will be some time before the dust settles in the wake of the military coup that ousted Dr. Salvad...
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Behind the Headlines the Un: Force or Albatross - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The charade known as the General Assembly of the United Nations will begin its 28th regular session ...
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Former Chilean Communist Party Senator Reported to Be in Rome Still No News About Other Leading Jews - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Volodia Toitlebaum, the Communist Party Senator during the Allende Administration, is in Rome, accor...
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Top Chilean Jew Gets 13 Years - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Daniel Silberman, one of the prominent Jews in the former government of Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens...
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Smolar Award Winners Announced - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The winners of the Boris Smolar Awards for excellence in American Jewish journalism for 1973 were an...
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Eban Assesses Chances for Talks, Israel's Unpreparedness on Oct. 6 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The signing of the six-point agreement signifies the beginning of a dialogue between Israel and the ...
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Behind the Headlines: Solzhenitsyn's Ouster Bodes Ill for Soviet Jewish Activists - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn last Wednesday bodes ill for the future of Soviet Jews cam...
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200 Communal Leaders to Attend CJF Board, Committee Meetings - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In the light of events and trends following on the Yom Kippur War, more than 200 Jewish leaders and ...
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Chavez Assailed by Trotskyists for Defending Israel's Right to Exist - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist) has uncovered a new enemy of the Arab people–none other t...
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Ford and Israel: What's Ahead? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
With Gerald Rudolph Ford as the new President, the question uppermost in the minds of Jewish leaders...
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Behind the Headlines the Crisis in Cyprus Opens a Pandora's Box for Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The ongoing fighting in Cyprus with the continuing military advances by Turkey has created widesprea...
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Behind the Headlines is Aid to Israel Next on the Congressional Chopping Block? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A rebellious and generally anti-Administration Congress has succeeded in pruning, slashing and in so...
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Behind the Headlines Has Israel Been Set Up for a Diplomatic 'kill' at the Un? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
There is growing concern here in some quarters that Israel has been set up for a diplomatic “kill�...
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Behind the Headlines the Plo: Suiting Deeds to Words - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Shafik Al-Hout, the chief spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization at the United Nations,...
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Jewish Editors on Tv Program - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Four Jewish editors are scheduled to discuss the role of the American-Jewish and Yiddish press in re...
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Behind the Headlines Flipping the Peace Coin - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may have let the cat out of the diplomatic pouch and, thereby, placed...
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Behind the Headlines Wanted; Suitable Zionist Information - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Zionist leaders in this country and Israel are bemoaning the fact that there is not enough informati...
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Petronius Arbiter Lives Again - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Petronius Arbiter, a Roman proconsul and satirist who lived about 60 C.E., ridiculed Jews for prohib...
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Behind the Headlines Aliya: the End of Exile - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Many North American Jews talk about aliya. But last year 3200 Jews in the United States and Canada a...
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Behind the Headlines Bonnie and Clyde Journalism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Two nationally syndicated columnists charged this week that there exists what amounts to a conspirac...
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Behind the Headlines the Name of the Game: Israel As the Heavy in the Mideast - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
On Sept. 1 Israel and Egypt initialed the second Sinai interim agreement that was reached with the h...
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Cabal of Arab, Communist, Third World States Formalize Their Hatred of Zionism and Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 17 will be recalled as a day of infamy at the United Nations. It was a day when a cabal of A...
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Behind the Headlines the Possible Dream - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bruce Cohen is a young Reform rabbi with a mission — and a dream. He wants to find a way to build ...
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Behind the Headlines Who is a Jew in Latin America - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A growing number of Jewish communal officials in this country, particularly those keeping track of d...
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Behind the Headlines War by Other Means - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
For the first time since the birth of Israel in 1948, the Arabs are conducting a propaganda campaign...
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Rabin Urges Jewish Press to Deal with Major Issues, Play Down Israeli Politics - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Premier Yitzhak Rabin called on the Jewish press all over the world yesterday to deal more with basi...
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Special Report a Missed Opportunity - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The World Conference of Jewish Journalists which met here at the Beit Agron for three days last week...
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Columnist Calls on Carter to Renege on Promise to Aid Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Nicholas von Hoffman, the syndicated newspaper columnist and television and radio commentator on cur...
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The Night of the Ninth Plague - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The massive power failure which blacked out New York City and Westchester County Wednesday and conti...
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Behind the Headlines the Sweet Smell of Success - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A new stage in the relationship between Israel and the United States, “an unwritten alliance,” w...
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Special Analysis Icy Fingers on Israel's Spine - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The United States made it clear this week that Israel has got to find a way of accommodating itself ...
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Mrs. Meir, Dinitz Stress Israel Will Not Give in to Pressure - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Two leading Israeli diplomats served notice yesterday on Israel’s “friends” in the West that t...
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Behind the Headlines Games the News Media Play - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
There is an illusion extant that Israeli and Egyptian leaders are conducting peace negotiations and ...
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Behind the Headlines War and Peace Press Release Style - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
As Middle East events unfold with dizzying and almost unpredictable speed, spokesman for Jewish orga...
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The Death of an Artist Gail Rubin, 39, Killed by Terrorists - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Gail Rubin had an irrepressible and inexhaustible zest for life. At 39 she was at the height of her ...
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Demonstrations at Oscar Ceremonies Scheduled over Redgrave Nomination - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A different kind of excitement may be injected into the Oscar ceremonies in Los Angeles next Monday ...
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Issues in Focus Looking for a Scapegoat - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Carter Administration, which has fumbled the Middle East ball for the past year, is currently en...
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Ehrlich, Hoffberger Address CJF General Assembly Opening - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The emerging problems and opportunities for Israel and for American and Canadian Jewry in the period...
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CJF Assembly Told of Challenges Facing Israel, N. American Jewry - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jews in North America and in Israel, in their own ways, and along parallel lines, are rising to the ...
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Yadin Says Efforts to End Deadlocked Talks Represent a Crucial Stage in the Peace Process - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The effort this week to attempt to resolve the “two or three outstanding crucial problems” that ...
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Focus on Issues Open Letter to Thelma Thomas Davis - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
As one who participated in numerous civil rights demonstrations and marches I read with sorrow and w...
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Dulzin Tells C Jf Assembly Israelis, Diaspora Jewry Bound to "agenda of Common Concerns" - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leading international Zionist official expressed concern here that a dichotomy appears to be devel...
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Issues at the CJF Assembly - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Of the dozens of issues discussed at the five-day General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federati...
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Focus on Issues the Need to Look Homeward - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hardly a week goes by without some anti-Semitic incident taking place in some “civilized” tradit...
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Point of View Where Have All the Issues Gone? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Issue of Israel’s defense and security preoccupies the Presidential candidates and their Jewis...
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Focus on Issues the Indebtedness Factor - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Prominent Jewish Republicans are claiming that Jewish voters played a pivotal role in electing Ronal...
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CJF Head Announces Billion Dollar Goal for 'jewish Survival' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The North American Jewish community was told last night that long-range planning is imperative “if...
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Danger of 'moral Majority' to Pluralistic America Explored at CJF Assembly - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Two U.S. Senators agreed here last night that the Moral Majority represents a potential threat to th...
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Begin Tells CJF Assembly Israel Rejects Guarantees, Relies on Own Strength for Survival - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel does not want to be “a protected state” and does not want foreign guarantees to assure it...
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Behind the Headlines Death of a Jewish Journalist - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
An epoch in Jewish journalism come to an end this week with the death of Yitzhak Shargil. It is hard...
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Israel Optimistic About the Reagan Administration - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Harry Hurwitz, Israel’s Minister of Information in Washington, today voiced Israel’s optimism an...
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'celebration 33'draws Thousands - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Some 4,500 people gathered last night in Radio City Music Hall to participate in “Celebration 33�...
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Viewpoint Who Hates Ya, Baby? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
One of the obscenities in American Jewish life is the spectacle of Jewish representatives flying dow...
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News of Aliza Begin's Death Stuns Audience at CJF Assembly Where Rousing Welcome Awaited Premier - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
It was to have been a triumphal reception for Premier Menachem Begin. More than 2,000 Jewish leaders...
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Focus on Issues Rabbi Warns Against Misusing the Tragedy of the Holocaust - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leading rabbi warned that "the politicalization of the Holocaust as an instrument with which to de...
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CJF Assembly Approves Resolutions on Soviet Jewry, Ethiopian Jewry, Nuclear Arms Freeze, the Mideast - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Resolutions calling on the United States and Canadian governments to raise the issue of Soviet Jewry...
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Dulzin Calls for a New 'challenging Partnership' Between Israel and the Diaspora - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Executives, called for a “new challen...
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Jewish Life Around the World is Marked by Anxiety, ADL Leader Says - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The condition of Jewish life around the world is characterized by “malaise, uneasiness and anxiety...
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Focus on Issues Study Shows Jewish Jobless is Growing, Despite Improved Economy - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish unemployment in this country is a growing problem despite an improved economy. An estimated 1...
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Navon Stresses Israel's Unity Government Wants to Withdraw from Lebanon As Soon As Possible - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Education and Culture, said here Thursday n...
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Kissinger Warns Against Seeking Comprehensive Solution in Mideast - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said last night that he did not believe there is an opport...
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