Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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Culture Judaic Studies Classes See Enrollment Boom
Lauren Twigg entered San Diego State University as an undergraduate four years ago with a game plan: She would study business and become a chief executive officer of a powerful company. But what she didn’t bank on was that she’d be bored to tears by her math and economics courses. “I figured if I didn’t…
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News Critics Slam Rabbi, Y.U. Over Article on Gentiles
An article in a student publication of Yeshiva University’s affiliated rabbinical seminary that suggests the basis for the religious prohibition against murder is different for Jews and non-Jews is causing a stir in the Modern Orthodox world. The article quotes classical Jewish texts to support the argument that while the Bible contains a prohibition against…
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News Survivors’ Group Leaders Split Over Aid
Four leaders of a prominent Holocaust survivors’ coalition, including its board chairman, have broken with the group’s approach to the allocation of Holocaust-era restitution payments, saying the group’s campaign for increased aid to American survivors had become overly combative and had “backfired.” The four dissenters are charging that the coalition, the Holocaust Survivors Foundation-USA, had…
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News Ethiopians Protest Immigration Delays
Israel’s absorption minister is under fire for reportedly speaking out in opposition to a Cabinet decision to immediately bring up to 20,000 Ethiopians of Jewish descent to Israel. Several Israeli media outlets have reported that the minister of immigrant absorption, Tzipi Livni, disparaged the idea of bringing the Falash Mura, descendents of Jews who converted…
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News News Report on Illegal Outposts Prompts Calls for Probe of WZO
American Jewish communal leaders are calling for an investigation into the activities of the World Zionist Organization, a Jerusalem-based confederation of Diaspora Zionist groups, following an Israeli news report alleging that the body was funneling money to illegal settlement outposts. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on December 26 that Israeli government ministries were using the…
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News Florida Shoah Survivors Facing New Set of Woes: Age, Infirmity, Poverty
HALLANDALE, Fla. — With thick-rimmed glasses perched on his forehead and his hands folded across a woolly knit sweater, Aaron Stern looks more like the world-renowned behavioral scientist he once was than the man he has become: a Holocaust survivor who cannot pay his own rent. The articulate 85-year-old has triumphed over enough adversity for…
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News Gibson Film Exposes Rift In Vatican Hierarchy
The debate over a papal screening of Mel Gibson’s controversial film has become a flashpoint between liberals and conservatives struggling for power in the Catholic Church under the ailing pope. The pope saw “The Passion of Christ” and is said by conservatives to have praised it in a few words, saying, “It is as it…
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News Kavalier & Clay’s Escapist Adventure
What if the power of the written word could bring a superhero to life? Well, it has — almost — with the release this month of “The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist.” Like the Golem of Prague, who was animated by the scribbled name of God, the Escapist has leapt from the pages of Michael…
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