Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Movie on Holocaust Funds Draws Fire
An Israeli television program broadcast on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day has drawn the main organization that distributes Holocaust restitution funds into ongoing battles about the financial condition of Israeli Holocaust survivors. “Reparations Ethics: The War Continues,” aired on Israeli television April 27 and again April 30. The film criticized the Conference on Jewish…
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News As Ranks of Israeli Wealthy Swell, Philanthropic Sector Plays Catch-Up
In June 2006, Avner Stepak, an investment banker and budding philanthropist, invited his friend Zvika Arran over to his house to watch a basketball game. Arran had an idea for a new venture, and Stepak told him he had 30 seconds before the game started to describe it. Arran laid out his idea: a new…
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News Jewish Students Protest Bias in North Dakota
Jewish students at a midwestern university are accusing the administration of ignoring antisemitic incidents. Jewish students at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks say the university ignored weeks of complaints about antisemitic incidents on campus until the news was reported in local newspapers. One Jewish student has moved off-campus to escape harassment, and…
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News Rabbis’ Dispute Exposes Communal Rift on Labor
A rabbinic legal opinion stipulating that Jewish employers should pay their workers a living wage is exposing fault lines in the Jewish world over attitudes toward labor issues. The opinion, which will be voted on by Conservative Judaism’s halachic policy body in late May, argues that rabbinic law obligates Jewish employers to pay their workers…
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News Cleveland Federation Urged To Stay in City
As Cleveland’s Jewish federation ponders a move to the suburbs, a group of civic activists is urging the organization’s board to keep its headquarters downtown. A loose coalition of players in Cleveland’s Jewish and civic life will meet with the board of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland this week and urge it not to…
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News Passover Becomes a Rallying Cry for Progressives
Activists are hoping that as Jews sit down at their Seder tables this year, they will turn their thoughts not just to ancient Egypt but to Sudan, Tibet and even the polar ice caps. Jewish groups have sponsored a spate of new Haggadahs, additional readings, and supplemental rituals and symbols in an attempt to put…
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News United Jewish Communities Founder To Step Down
One of the architects of the national organization of Jewish federations is stepping down from his high-ranking volunteer post amid a bitter feud with the heads of the body he helped found. In an April 3 letter, Richard Wexler blasted Joe Kanfer and Howard Rieger, chairman and president/CEO, respectively, of United Jewish Communities, the national…
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News Toronto Shuls Mull Split From Conservative Movement
One of Toronto’s largest Conservative synagogues has voted to leave the movement’s synagogue association, and several others are considering making a similar move. Adath Israel Congregation voted on March 27 to leave the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism, and three other synagogues will soon be voting on whether or not to leave. The votes come…
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