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Prague Conference May Be Last Chance To Settle Holocaust Property Claims
In what may be the final opportunity for many Holocaust survivors, the international community is launching a new effort to reach understandings on restitution of property that belonged to Jews in Europe before the Nazi occupation. The Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, scheduled to open in Prague June 26, will put a new focus on…
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Unrest in Iran Poses Dilemma For Israel
Iran’s descent into instability has confronted Israel and its American supporters with a dilemma in choosing between two competing approaches: one based on human rights, and the other on realpolitik. Israeli officials might personally be rooting for the fall of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom they view as a tyrant. But at the same time,…
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Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote
Sexual-abuse survivors who traveled to Albany, N.Y., with high hopes this past spring got a tough lesson in political reality. The state Assembly’s regular session ended on June 22 without any action on a bill that would make it easier for sex-abuse victims to sue their molesters and the institutions that employed them. “People are…
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Support Grows In Congress for Iran Sanctions
Like Israel, pro-Israel activists in Washington have avoided taking sides on Iran’s internal issues. But even before Iran’s June 12 election, they were pushing hard for legislation that would impose tough measures against Tehran. And the unrest and government repression now taking place there appear to have bolstered their cause. On June 23, the House…
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16 Yemeni Jews Immigrate to Israel, But Most Remain Behind
A new group of émigrés from Yemen’s tiny Jewish population arrived in Israel, but the fate of a controversial plan to evacuate a larger contingent to the United States remains up in the air. A group of 16 Yemeni Jews, from three families, arrived June 21 in Israel, where their arrival was reported by Israeli…
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Madoff’s Victims Speak Out
Veterans, widowers, parents, the elderly and the sick. They are hardworking people who believed in living within their means, saving for a rainy day and putting money aside for their grandchildren’s college tuition. From across the country, victims of Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme wrote in painful detail of their hardship and losses as…
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Bankrupt Agriprocessors Slated for Sale
The troubled kosher meat company Agriprocessors is set to be sold to a new Jewish owner. Agriprocessors has been owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family, but it went bankrupt last fall after a massive immigration raid at the company’s Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse. The company’s bankruptcy trustee, Joseph Sarachek, recommended on June 23 that Agriprocessors be…
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Pioneer Songs, Revisited
Over the past year, a who’s who of Jewish performers has made a pilgrimage to Livingston, N.J., a well-to-do suburb of New York City, to record interpretations of old Israeli pioneer songs. They sang and played in an unoccupied three-story home, where a drum kit was often set up in the 18-foot octagonal foyer inside…
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Camp in the Catskills: A Summer Tradition
In 1959, a group of Holocaust survivors, most of them living in the secular, Yiddish-speaking enclave of the Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, did something remarkable. Each of them shelled out $500 of hard-earned money to found a summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. The survivors’ goal was to pass on to the next generation…
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Yid. Dish: Tahina
Tahina, the thick, brownish-gray paste of ground sesame seeds, is one of the latest foods to turn “gourmet” – at least in Israel. If supermarkets once sold only one brand of tahina, today it comes in squeeze bottles and glass jars with fancy labels; brands with Arabic on their labels proclaiming their “authenticity” vie with…
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Bar Mitzvah Behind Bars
NEWS ITEM: A wealthy inmate was allowed to host a lavish bar mitzvah for his son at the Manhattan lockup known as the Tombs. Bar mitzvah behind bars? That’s new! A novelty to every Jew! An inmate went beyond the pale By staging one inside a jail. His son was the bar mitzvah boy, The…
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