Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Jewish Organizations Split Over Pledge Case Strategy
As the legal battle against the Pledge of Allegiance heads to the Supreme Court, Jewish civil rights groups are divided in their response to the controversial case. The American Jewish Congress is planning to challenge a recent appeals court ruling that the pledge is unconstitutional. The Anti-Defamation League, on the other hand, in a reversal…
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News Comparing Apples With Apples When It Comes to Executive Pay
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, earned $357,375 last year, not counting benefits. The president of New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center, Barry Freedman, took in $1.3 million. Are those figures too high? A report last month in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the large salaries of Jewish communal executives prompted much clucking…
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News Conservative Head Calls Sabbath-Driving Rule a ‘Mistake’
The head of Conservative Judaism’s flagship institution is arguing that the movement made a “mistake” when it issued a landmark ruling a half-century ago permitting Jews to drive to synagogue on the Sabbath. Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, made his declaration last week in Dallas during a speech at the biennial…
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News UJC May Shrink Jewish Agency Funding
On the eve of the annual gathering of North American Jewish charitable federations in Jerusalem, supporters of their main Israeli beneficiary, the Jewish Agency for Israel, are in an uproar over a proposal by fundraisers that could slash the agency’s funding. Federation representatives recommended this week that funding to their other main overseas partner, American…
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News Frustrated Sociologists Want Census Religion Question
Jewish researchers frustrated with the trouble-plagued National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 are calling for a question on religion to be added to the decennial United States Census. Bucking the Jewish community’s historic opposition to government inquiries on religion, three leading scholars now say it may be the only way to count Jews accurately. The reform…
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News Probe Demanded of Ford Foundation Funding
A recent investigative report on the Ford Foundation’s funding of Palestinian groups is triggering calls for a federal investigation. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, and the American Jewish Congress are urging a federal probe into the alleged financial ties between what might be the country’s most prestigious foundation and anti-Israel Palestinian groups….
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News Fringe Voices Ricochet Coast to Coast
Adam Davis was frustrated with the Jewish singles scene in Chicago. Gatherings organized by the Windy City’s local federation and Hillels were either too pricey or populated by the same circuit of clean-cut urban professionals taking reckless advantage of the events’ only entertainment — an open bar. “You’d see the same faces every time,” Davis…
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News Foundation Aided Durban Groups
Approximately 80% of the estimated $100,000 audit cost was to be reimbursed by Ford, in concert with several European charitable groups, she said. SIDA’s spokeswoman explained that her agency was not actually a LAW donor, but merely facilitated the audit as a convenience to Ford and other funders. Ernst & Young headquarters in London refused…
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