Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Young Israel’s Eviction Plans Draw Criticism
A national organization charged with aiding Orthodox synagogues plans to sell its building and evict two congregations in the process. In a statement, leaders of one of the congregations accused the National Council of Young Israel of driving the synagogue “out of existence” by deciding to sell its main office building to a real estate…
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News Administration Said To Be Blocking Restitution Push
Holocaust survivors, a top Clinton administration official and a veteran congressman are warning that the Bush administration is undermining the fight to win compensation for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany. Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton administration’s special envoy on Holocaust issues who struck global restitution deals totaling $10 billion, criticized the White House for seeking to…
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News NYU Center: New Addition to Growing Academic Field
A $3.5 million center for modern Israel studies is about to open atNew York University, the latest addition to a burgeoning academic field about Israel. The Taub Center for Israel Studies is set to be announced May 1 at NYU in Manhattan. The center will endow a chair in Israel studies, offer two research fellowships…
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News Third Trial In ’91 Riot Shows Race Still Divides
An air of frustration filled Courtroom 6 during jury selection in the Brooklyn federal courthouse last week when Juror 46 insisted that despite her own biases she could be fair in the racially charged trial of Lemrick Nelson Jr. When Judge Frederic Block admitted her to a pool of jury finalists, frustration boiled over into…
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News Search for Hillel Director Seen Drawing to a Close
The search to fill one of the Jewish community’s highest-profile positions appears to be drawing to a close. Richard Joel, the popular president and international director of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, is stepping down April 30 to become president of Yeshiva University and its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Speculation is…
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News In Baltimore, Aged Now Get Services Where They Live
BALTIMORE — Helen Salzman inches across the lipstick-red carpet to welcome guests into her cozy, two-story frame cottage. Her delicately appointed dining room is immaculate, her off-white sectional looks spanking new and the kitchen floor is well scrubbed. But the legally blind Salzman does not notice that her plush rug is pulled dangerously loose in…
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News National Population Survey Postponed — Again
The National Jewish Population Survey, the $6 million study whose release was postponed last November so that its methods could be reviewed, has been postponed again for a second review. The new delay means that the survey, commissioned by United Jewish Communities and originally set for completion in 2000, will not be published for at…
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News Ethiopian Leader Alleges Discrimination
A leader of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is petitioning the Israeli Supreme Court, claiming the government discriminated against her by denying her a job because of her political party affiliation. Negist Mengesha claims she was denied a job leading an internationally funded Ethiopian welfare program after she became politically active in a left-wing…
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