Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Defiant Officials in Ukraine Build Atop Jewish Graves
KIEV, Ukraine — The local municipality of a small city in Ukraine is refusing to stop construction of an apartment building atop a Jewish cemetery there. Local officials in Volodymyr-Volynskyi are defying a December 17 appeals court decision that followed five years of legal battles waged by the Jewish community in Ukraine, with the help…
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News Aguda Asks: Are We To Blame for Our Neighbors’ Anger?
STAMFORD, Conn. — Breaking a longstanding taboo, a leading Orthodox Jewish advocacy group held an open discussion at its national convention here last week that touched on the question of whether Orthodox communities might themselves be partly to blame when civic conflicts arise with their non-Jewish or non-Orthodox neighbors. The December 27 roundtable discussion at…
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News Non-Orthodox Blast Jewish Agency Over Funding Cuts
Top leaders of Conservative and Reform Judaism are livid at the Jewish Agency for Israel for cutting what they say is a sizable and disproportionate chunk of their funding in Israel, and doing so without prior consultation. Movement officials expressed their anger at the 18% reduction in allocations to their streams in Israel in an…
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