Nacha Cattan
By Nacha Cattan
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News Activists: Ethiopians Die As Care Is Denied
A dozen Ethiopians, including nine children, reportedly died last month after being refused care by American Jewish relief organizations as they waited for permission to immigrate to Israel. Among the dead were starvation victims Emaye Molla, 18, and her 8-year-old brother, Berhane, Ethiopian activists said. According to the activists, others died from treatable cases of…
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News Orthodox Seek Help of UJC To Roll Back Israeli Reform
In a rare bid for cooperation, the leading voice of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the United States is reaching out to the nation’s main Jewish philanthropic network to seek assistance in a plan to aid Israeli families. The Orthodox group, Agudath Israel of America, appealed in a letter last week to United Jewish Communities, the roof…
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News Funding Low for Ethiopian Absorption Program
Experts working to integrate new immigrants into Israeli society are saying the funding for a new project to help absorb recent arrivals from Ethiopia is grossly inadequate. Ethiopian activists and absorption experts in Israel are thankful nonetheless for the launching of the long-delayed Ethiopian National Project, a partnership between Israel and Diaspora Jewry to assist…
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News Ruling May Threaten Restitution Efforts
A Supreme Court ruling striking down a California law to aid Holocaust survivors seeking compensation appears to have very broad implications that critics say could undo restitution efforts in all states of the union. The Supreme Court this week reversed a California statute that was meant to pressure insurance companies to turn over lists of…
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News Rift Marks Conference on Antisemitism
The first-ever international, governmental conference dedicated exclusively to antisemitism ended in Vienna this week, amid a German-Austrian squabble over accusations that Vienna was a less than gracious host. The two-day meeting brought together nearly 400 delegates from the 55 member-states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an international body founded in 1995…
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News Philadelphia Council May Face Its Demise
A major restructuring in Philadelphia could doom one of American Jewry’s most storied public-policy groups. The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia has decided to take control of the independent Jewish Community Relations Council, an organization that acts on behalf of a range of community agencies to foster relations with other religious and ethnic groups, and…
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News Upstart Rabbinical School Set To Fight for Pulpit Jobs
An upstart rabbinical school housed in the basement of a Manhattan synagogue is poised to fill more Orthodox pulpits a year than the Modern Orthodox flagship Yeshiva University. This is the projection put forth by the fledgling Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the brainchild of the charismatic Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Bronx. The college has just…
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News Charity Chiefs Decrying Lack of Coordinated Opposition to Tax Cuts
With social service agencies nationwide squeezed between rising need, stagnant budgets and shrinking state aid, growing numbers of local Jewish charity officials are grumbling over the failure of their national leaders to oppose the administration’s tax cut policies. Volunteer and professional leaders at Jewish welfare federations across the country said their social-service agencies are facing…
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