Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Charities’ Focus on the Hungry Draws Israel’s Ire
American Jewish philanthropies are coming to blows with their main beneficiary, the State of Israel, following an unprecedented Israeli Cabinet vote to deplore Diaspora charities’ use of Israeli hunger as a fundraising tool. Prime Minister Sharon unleashed the opening salvo at a weekly Cabinet meeting last Sunday, lambasting overseas fundraisers who use images of “hunger…
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News Survivors’ Groups Decry Plan for Fund Disbursement
Plans for the disbursement of a Holocaust-related humanitarian fund established by German insurance companies are drawing fire from American groups of Holocaust survivors, as well as Israeli officials. At issue is a proposal, endorsed by the fund’s administrator, to use as much as one-fifth of the $165 million fund for Holocaust education and other purposes…
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News Rabbi Denies Knowledge of Memorial
The former chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel who was said to have authorized a controversial plan to build a memorial at a Nazi extermination camp in Poland is now saying he knows nothing about the plan. The American Jewish Committee and other organizers of the plan have been pointing for months to a letter written…
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News Plan for Ethiopian Immigrants Collapses
Ethiopian activists and their allies are waging a multi-front protest against the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency for Israel and several American Jewish philanthropies. Thousands of demonstrators in Jerusalem this week pitched tents outside the prime minister’s office to protest the apparent collapse of a 4-month-old government plan to bring more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians…
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News Streams Unite To Fight Ministry on Conversion
In a rare moment of cross-denomination solidarity, Reform and Conservative rabbis in Israel are joining their Orthodox colleagues in opposing an Interior Ministry move to end automatic citizenship for those who convert to Judaism in Israel. The Interior Ministry, led by the anti-clerical Shinui Party, announced plans this week to allow the expiration of a…
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News Moving On After Crown Heights Verdict
Two days after the verdict in the third trial of Lemrick Nelson Jr., a mix of black and Jewish leaders met in Crown Heights to announce that the community would move forward not backward. The message was delivered at a press conference May 16 on Kingston Avenue to a handful of passersby — mostly children…
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News Orthodox Union Blasted by Labor Group
A Jewish labor group is blasting the largest Orthodox organization in America for endorsing a bill that labor unions say is a Republican assault on workers’ rights. The legislation in question is a House bill that would allow businesses to offer workers time off from work, known as compensatory time, in place of time-and-a-half overtime…
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News Arizona Border Posses Tied to White Extremists, ADL Asserts
In secret missions with military code names like Operation Thunderbird and Operation Falcon, ordinary Americans in the Southwest are donning camouflage uniforms, grabbing rifles, motion sensors and global positioning systems and tramping — or swooping in Skyhawks — through the Arizona desert in search of illegal migrants. The scenario is laid out in a new…
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