Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Few Large Donations Go to Jewish Causes
Jewish philanthropists may be more generous than other Americans at cutting supersized checks to charities, according to a new study, but they give mere pennies on the dollar of their largest donations to Jewish causes. The study, titled Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy, found that among the 865 Americans who awarded a single grant of $10…
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News Israeli Budget Cuts May Leave New Immigrants Without Homes
The Jewish Agency for Israel is arguing that Israel’s new austerity plan would cut immigration absorption programs so drastically as to discourage aliya and prevent needy arrivals from ever leaving absorption centers. The chief complaint of new immigrants to Israel, or olim, and their advocates is the government’s plan to cease grants awarded to every…
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News Disclosure of Unclaimed Properties Urged
As a young girl, Anita Hoffer spent hours on her grandparents’ laps listening to tales of their cosmopolitan lives in pre-war Berlin. They were thankful to escape Germany before the Holocaust. But as chicken farmers in Vineland, N.J., during the 1950s, Hoffer’s grandparents couldn’t help but pine for the furniture dealership they left behind. “My…
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News Feds Seek Israeli Suspects in ‘Operation Stow Biz’
The FBI is planning to ask the Israeli government to extradite a dozen Israelis indicted in a crackdown on several South Florida moving companies that allegedly scammed hundreds of clients. Sixteen moving companies and 74 operators and owners, most of them Israelis, were indicted March 4 in Broward and Dade counties on charges of fraud…
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News Judge Bars Web Site’s Sales of Dead Sea Balms
Ahava, the Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics line, is at the center of a court battle as caustic as the world’s saltiest body of water. And a federal court has recently weighed in on the mudslinging. The official American distributor of Ahava, Ahava USA, has succeeded in getting Manhattan federal Judge Victor Marrero to bar an…
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News Top Charities Spar Over Turf
Two of the most powerful Jewish charities in North America are trading accusations of undercutting each other’s efforts. The United Jewish Communities, the roof body of North American Jewish federations, complained in a February 28 letter that one of its primary overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is undermining UJC by appealing directly…
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News Rabbi’s Heirs Sue For Music Rights
The late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was masterful with a guitar and had a sweet way with words. But the late “singing rabbi” hit a flat note when it came to paperwork: The chasidic maestro rarely penned contracts, licenses or copyrights — and never composed a will. As a result, a multimillion-dollar global music industry flourishes…
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News Top Rabbi Admits Errors In Handling Lanner Case
A revered Orthodox rabbi accused by critics of withholding information about convicted sex-abuser Rabbi Baruch Lanner apologized last week in front of hundreds of students at Yeshiva University for his “mistakes” and “blindspots.” Rabbi Mordechai Willig, head of a prestigious post-rabbinical institute at Yeshiva University’s rabbinical seminary, addressed a packed religious study hall February 19…
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