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Survivors’ Heirs Selling Looted 16th Century Art

A 16th century painting stolen from its Italian-Jewish owner and sold by France’s Vichy government that was recently returned to his heirs is being auctioned off. “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue,” a 16th-century work by Girolamo de’ Romani, which was restituted in April to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, is…

By JTA Jun 5, 2012 | < 1 min read
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U.S. Delays Embassy Move to Jerusalem Again

President Obama extended a waiver for an additional six months that delays moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Obama’s waiver, issued June 1, follows in the footsteps of predecessors Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who also extended the waiver every six months since a law was passed in 1995 mandating moving the…

By JTA Jun 5, 2012 | < 1 min read
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U.S. Plans To Tighten Bank Sanctions on Iran

A senior U.S. Treasury Department official said in Israel that more can be done to place financial pressure on Iran and the U.S. is “intent on doing more.” David Cohen, U.S. undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, told Israel Army Radio Monday that “sanctions are having an impact on Iran, but I also recognize that…

By JTA Jun 5, 2012 | < 1 min read
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Wagner Concert Scrapped at Tel Aviv U.

Tel Aviv University put a stop to a planned concert of music by German composer Richard Wagner. In a letter denying the request to hold the concert in a campus auditorium, the university said that Yonatan Livni, founder of the Israel Wagner Society, concealed the organization’s name and its desire to play Wagner when he…

By JTA Jun 5, 2012 | < 1 min read
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CUNY Denies Creating ‘Jewish’ Staff Category

The City University of New York denied a report that it had created a special minority designation for Jewish faculty. Rather, a university spokesman told JTA, the university simply had responded to requests by Jewish faculty members to be recruited for focus groups aimed at boosting the recruitment of minorities to serve on the CUNY…

By JTA Jun 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
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Pro-Settlement Activists March in Jerusalem

Hundreds of settlement activists began marching Monday from the Ulpana neighborhood on the outskirts of the Beit El settlement in the West Bank toward Jerusalem. The protest march is against plans to raze five apartment buildings in Ulpana, which are on land claimed by Palestinian families. Some 300 supporters of Ulpana waving flags and carrying…

By JTA Jun 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
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Ex-Sixers Exec Will Coach Maccabi Haifa

Brad Greenberg, the former general manager of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, has signed on to coach the Maccabi Haifa basketball team. Greenberg, who is Jewish, will coach the team for the next two seasons, the team announced Monday on its official website. Greenberg, 58, becomes the first head coach in Israel to have served as…

By JTA Jun 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
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Jewish NGO Serves 250,000 in East Africa

Jewish Heart for Africa is now serving 250,000 people in East Africa with Israeli technologies. The New York-based organization announced the milestone in conjunction with the expected completion of its 57th project later this month. Founded in 2008 by Sivan Borowich Ya’ari, Jewish Heart for Africa has used Israeli solar and agricultural technologies to assist…

By JTA Jun 4, 2012 | < 1 min read

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