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In affidavits, Internal Revenue Service officials denied telling a pro-Israel group that they checked whether such groups applying for tax-exempt status oppose the administration.

The granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush is engaged to marry the son of famed Jewish fashion designer Ralph Lauren.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

A bill that would validate conversions to Judaism through Israel's military rabbinate passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset.

Three Palestinian firefighters were refused entry into Israel for a ceremony honoring Palestinian firemen who helped battle the Carmel blaze.

British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will retire in September 2013.

A nearly 1,800-year-old Roman statue of a woman was discovered near Ashkelon after it was uncovered by a severe storm.

The ski season in Israel began a month early with the opening of the Hermon Mountain ski slopes.

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Kissinger tells JTA: Take remark on gas chambers in context

A controversial remark by Henry Kissinger in a newly released Nixon White House tape -- “If they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern” -- has put the former secretary of state on the defensive and dismayed some Jewish organizations. Read more »

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Caught on tape: Kissinger JTA offers a view of the transcript of the 1973 tape of a meeting between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger in which the latter makes his "gas chambers" remark.

Winners, pay up! Madoff "clawback" lawsuits are going after Jewish groups and others that inadvertently benefited from the Ponzi scheme, JTA's Jacob Berkman reports.

On Israel, can U.S. Jews disagree nicely? With passionate fights about Israel tearing apart some American Jewish communities, an initiative launched in the San Francisco Bay Area is aiming to spur civil discourse, JTA's Sue Fishkoff reports.

Person of the year For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Facebook's Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is Time Magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.

The Eulogizer: Emmy-winning TV producer, a classical pianist, actress turned rebbetzin JTA's new Appreciation column remembers Alan Armer, Jacob Lateiner and Ruth White.

Genocide is an American concern The position that Henry Kissinger took in that long-ago conversation with President Nixon -- that not even genocide should properly be considered "an American concern" -- has time and again driven U.S. foreign policy, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes.

Son of refugees In Abigail Pogrebin's book "Stars of David," the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke considered whether his family's background led to his career. Read an excerpt in Tablet