Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Visit to Israel Is No Holiday For a Volunteer Paramedic
JERUSALEM — Delivering babies and treating victims of terrorism: Those aren’t the typical activities for a tourist in Israel, even one who has signed on for a rigorous volunteer or study program. But for Sara Ahronheim, 23, it’s a dream come true. “To be helping a 20-year-old Israeli woman give birth to a child, it’s…
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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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News Rabbi To Head UJC Pillar
A Reform rabbi who ceded the movement’s top seminary post two years ago over a sex scandal has been appointed to head the Jewish identity-building division of United Jewish Communities, the roof body of North American Jewish welfare federations. Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, the highest-ranking Reform rabbi ever to be suspended from the pulpit, was named…
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News Critics Charge Rabbinic Court Covered Up Lanner Abuse
Nineteen critics of convicted sex offender and former Orthodox Union youth leader Rabbi Baruch Lanner have signed a letter excoriating a respected rabbi, saying that he withheld for more than a decade a 1989 rabbinical court ruling that found Lanner guilty of abuse. The January 24 letter accuses Rabbi Mordechai Willig, a highly regarded spiritual…
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News Conservative Leaders Blast Jewish Agency’s Funding of School
Already angry at the Jewish Agency for Israel for deep budget cuts to non-Orthodox streams in Israel, Conservative movement leaders are protesting a $250,000 agency grant to an Orthodox school in Jerusalem. Top leaders of Conservative Judaism are calling for a reevaluation of the funding to Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish…
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News Top Baltimore Fundraiser Taking a Job at the ‘Joint’
Darrell Friedman, one of the most respected professionals in the federated Jewish philanthropic system, is resigning as president of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and joining the staff of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Friedman is one of four former executives from local federations across the country who in the last four…
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News UJC Ends Its Funding Of Charity ‘Incubator’
In its latest jolt of turmoil, the United Jewish Communities has moved to dissolve its experimental venture in non-traditional giving, The Trust for Jewish Philanthropy. UJC, the roof body of federated Jewish philanthropies in North America, issued a statement Tuesday, reportedly in response to inquiries by the Forward, that it has pulled the trust’s funding,…
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News Reform Rabbis Protest Cuts to Outreach
An association of 150 Reform rabbis is calling on the Reform movement to reconsider its decision to eliminate the jobs of 13 regional coordinators who provide services for interfaith families. The job cuts, announced last month by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to help relieve a $2 million budget deficit, would eliminate the part-time…
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