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Breaking News Claims Conference Ombudsman Will Probe Botched Fraud Investigation
An ombudsman will investigate how top officials at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany handled an anonymous letter that could have drastically reduced a multi-million dollar fraud at the organization. Julius Berman, chairman of the Claims Conference, has faced growing calls from board members for an independent investigation into the 2001 letter, which…
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News Berlin’s Jews Feud Amid Financial Chaos and Internal Strife
The future of Germany’s largest organized Jewish community is in question following a cutoff in its government support and a high-profile brawl that put its dysfunction on public display. The Berlin municipal government has terminated its subsidy to the city’s Juedische Gemeinde, or Jewish community, citing the community’s failure to properly document its budget needs….
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Breaking News German Bureaucrats Tried To Find Murdered Jews To Pay Back Taxes
Many low-level tax inspectors in Germany’s Nazi-era finance ministry were oblivious to the Holocaust and dutifully tried to contact murdered Jews whose wealth was being plundered by the ministry’s top officials, according to a new book. Germans have publicly atoned for Nazi crimes in a myriad of ways over six decades, providing scores of billions…
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News Claims Conference Chair Julius Berman Calls for In-House Probe — Yet Again
February 2010 was a time of high tension for top officials at the Jewish organization that processes restitution claims for Holocaust survivors. Just three months earlier, they had discovered the existence of what would turn out to be a massive, multimillion-dollar fraud taking place at the agency, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany….
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Breaking News Germany Agrees to Pay $1B for Home Care for Holocaust Survivors
The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos. The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $1 billion in funding for home care…
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Breaking News Israelis Suffer Abuse at Berlin Beyonce Gig
An Israeli soldier said he was among 10 young Israelis who were subjected to an anti-Semitic verbal attack before a Beyonce concert in Berlin. The soldier, Nathanel Zerad, told JTA that the incident last week at the O2 World Stadium left him and his friends fearful. Spokespeople for the Berlin police and the concert organizer,…
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Breaking News Composer Richard Wagner Turns 200, Still Dogged by Hatred in Beautiful Music
He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard Wagner. “Only Jesus, Napoleon and Hitler had more written about them,” said the German newspaper Die Welt’s culture affairs critic Manuel Brug…
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Breaking News Jewish Conductor Seeks to Mark Richard Wagner’s 200th Anniversary Without Hate
Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian Jewish conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his “Wagner Days” festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the…
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