Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Israel-Diaspora Partnership Threatened
The link between North America’s federated Jewish charities and the organization that built the State of Israel with their donations, the Jewish Agency for Israel, may be coming unglued. The Jewish Agency, founded in the 1920s as the operations arm of Theodor Herzl’s World Zionist Organization, today serves as Israel’s main immigration agency and as…
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News Obama’s Presidency Renews Activists’ Memories
As Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president — and first black president — of the United States on January 20, there was, across the country, a scattered group of Jews whose perspective on the unprecedented event was deeply personal. The significance of disproportionate Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement…
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Culture Building Jewish Identity, Preschool Program Expands Its Reach
At a table in the rear of classroom 3 of the nursery school at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, several of the children, ages 3 and 4, pause from busily gluing photographs of the class Hanukkah party onto a large piece of brown paper to explain to a visitor what they’re doing. “That’s my…
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News N.Y. Okays Public School With Hebrew Focus
The movement for publicly funded Hebrew language and culture charter schools took a giant step forward as a new charter school for New York City received final approval and plans emerged for a national center to back Hebrew charter school efforts across the country. On January 13, the New York State Board of Regents approved…
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News Judge’s Ruling Seen as Imperiling Rabbinical Courts’ Role
A New York State court decision has called into question the arbitration powers of rabbinical courts, long used by observant Jews to settle civil disputes. In a decision issued December 18, Judge Bruce Balter of the New York State Supreme Court threw out an arbitration ruling by the Beth Din of America, one of the…
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News Birthright Nails Down Adelson’s $20-Million Pledge
Birthright Israel, one of the most prominent organizations promoting Jewish identity among young adults, has worked out a deal with its largest donor to confirm a $20 million pledge that had been in question for the coming year. Officials at Birthright Israel, which sends young Jews on free trips to Israel, say that the organization…
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News AJCongress Crippled by Madoff Scandal
One of the Jewish community’s most storied national organizations revealed that it has been gutted by the financial collapse of investor Bernard Madoff, losing the vast majority of its endowment. Officials at the 90-year-old American Jewish Congress disclosed that apparent fraud at Madoff’s investment firm had cost the organization roughly $21 million of the $24…
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Life Madoff Scandal Sends Sheytl-Wearing Banker Into Hiding
The New York Times has a profile one of the more fascinating and underreported characters in the Madoff scandal: Sonja Kohn. Kohn was founder, chair, and 75% owner of Bank Medici, which has lost, at latest report, $3.2 billion in the alleged Madoff scam. The Austrian government subsequently took over management of the bank. Though…
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