Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Bridging Brooklyn’s Jewish Divide
Occasionally, I walk out of my present apartment and come face to face with my past. She’s wearing a long skirt and an I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-natural wig. If she’s a childhood friend, we probably chat politely about her kids and my job as a journalist. If I’m wearing pants, she’ll try not to look down (even if…
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News Sports
Pittsburgh may have been roundly beaten in a season-ending game of college basketball last week, but in the more hidebound world of Jewish organizational life, the city scored a stunning victory. Howard Rieger, 61, a longtime Jewish charity leader and top professional at the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, has been nominated to succeed…
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News Groups Say Ban on Gay Vows Breaches Religious Freedom
In an unusual move, a local prosecutor’s effort to stop ministers from performing same-sex marriages is drawing fire from Jewish civil rights agencies not only on grounds of privacy or gay rights, but also of religious freedom. Officials with the American Jewish Congress and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism charge that the district…
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News Activist Rabbi Group Ramps Up Efforts
Rabbis for Human Rights, a multi-denominational international group, is ramping up efforts to clear its Israeli executive director of charges for attempting to block the demolition of Palestinian homes. The group is running an advertising campaign in North American Jewish newspapers calling on Israel to rescind its “illegal and immoral” policy of Palestinian home demolition….
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News Reform Rabbis Seek To Revive Food Laws
More than a century after the founders of Reform Judaism rejected kosher dietary laws as outdated practices likely to “obstruct” modern spiritual development, a growing cadre of the movement’s religious leaders are seeking to revive the practice. Discussion about resurrecting the observance of kosher laws, or kashrut, dominated the latest edition of the quarterly journal…
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News Judge Decries ‘Frivolous’ Shoah Appeals
The federal judge overseeing a $1.25 billion Holocaust restitution settlement with Swiss banks is accusing an American survivor group of filing “frivolous” claims for more funds while survivors in the former Soviet Union live in abject poverty. Brooklyn federal judge Edward Korman filed a sharply worded memorandum this week, vividly detailing the harsh living conditions…
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News ‘Passion’ Critics Endanger Jews, Angry Rabbis Claim, Attacking Groups, Foxman
The debate within the Jewish community over the proper response to “The Passion of the Christ” was turned up a notch last week when an outspoken Orthodox rabbi declared the film’s Jewish critics can be placed in the religious category of rodef, or pursuer. The term is used in rabbinic jurisprudence to describe an assailant…
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News Charity Giant Vows To Fight Barriers Facing Female Leaders
In a rare public self-rebuke, United Jewish Communities this week released a study outlining barriers that have prevented women from gaining top leadership positions at Jewish charitable federations, and vowed to take steps to close the gap. The study, conducted for UJC by the advocacy group Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, asserts that…
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