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Is this the last chance for Holocaust restitution?

Is this the last chance for Holocaust restitution?

PRAGUE — Stuart Eizenstat, who led the US government delegation to the June 26-29 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, sat down with JTA for an interview on the eve of the conference.

The conference, organized by the Czech government, which held the six-month rotating European Union presidency for the first half of 2009, brought together representatives of 49 countries for what participants said was likely to be the last major attempt to compensate Holocaust victims and their heirs for art and property confiscated or sold under duress during the Nazi era.

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Corporations - ‘Stop hiding’: Expert sets strategies for surviving in difficult times

Corporations - ‘Stop hiding’: Expert sets strategies for surviving in difficult times

CATHY Sunshine has the perfect surname for what she does.

As a management consultant, she is hired to detect systemic patterns that hold companies back, reduce efficiency, cut communications, erode profits, even — in extreme cases — shut the company down.

What she does is shine light — sunshine, if you prefer — into the dark corridors and hiding places where such corporate bogeymen dwell, and then devises a plan to expel them.

Her skills might sound mystical to those not hardwired for corporate psychology, group dynamics and organizational behavior, but Sunshine insists that she owes a great deal to old-fashioned common sense, not to mention a dash of Jewish thinking.

Her current firm, the Sunshine Consultancy, is the descendant of earlier versions of Sunshine’s forays into the corporate sphere, the earliest of which, Sunshine Professional Services, was founded in Denver in 1975.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 June 2009 13:14 )

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OU plans to meet the tuition crisis

WITH the encouragement and participation of a growing number of yeshivot and day schools across North America, the Orthodox Union is moving ahead with a two-pronged approach to respond to the crisis in Jewish education in the current economic environment.

The results will be noticeable as early as the beginning of the school year in September.

The two aspects of the plan are assisting the schools in making savings in non-academic areas while finding new sources of income at a time of reduced philanthropic giving; and providing an alternative to parents who cannot afford to pay annual tuition for each child by establishing a network of schools that offer a strong basic education but without a complete complement of programs such as are offered by day schools now.

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Post-Rubashkin: NY eateries get ethics seal

Post-Rubashkin: NY eateries get ethics seal

SAN FRANCISCO — One year after a massive immigration raid at the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the US, an Orthodox social justice organization announced the first seven recipients of its seal of ethical business practice.

Uri L’Tzedek recognized six kosher restaurants and a kosher supermarket in Manhattan with a Tav HaYosher, or ethical seal.

Mike’s Bistro, Mike’s Pizzeria and Italian Kitchen, Cafe Nana, Hewitt Dining, My Heights Café, Hartley Kosher Deli and Supersol of the Westside are displaying

the seal in their windows.

Uri L’Tzedek, which was founded by rabbinical students at the liberal Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York, timed its announcement to May 12, the anniversary of the 2008 raid at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.

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OU realigns, offers job placement help

OU realigns, offers job placement help

NEW YORK — Fred Goldberg says he saw the writing on the wall late last year when the small computer company he worked for in New York instituted a 20% pay cut.

It wasn’t long afterward that the 52-year-old information technology consultant from the Midwood section of Brooklyn was laid off.

“It’s not good. People are not hiring,” Goldberg said Sunday while standing in line to speak with representatives for a job-placement program at Lander College in Manhattan.

Goldberg was one of more than 700 people to show up for the expo run by the Orthodox Union, where the out-of-work and underemployed could learn about services available to them through the Jewish community.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 May 2009 13:53 )

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JTA News

Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard

3 July 2009, 11:42 am A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.... [Link]

Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam

3 July 2009, 11:36 am Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.... [Link]

Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false

3 July 2009, 11:29 am Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.... [Link]

Palestinian swine flu cases rising

2 July 2009, 5:18 pm A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.... [Link]

Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire

2 July 2009, 4:55 pm The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.... [Link]

Clinton, Fayyad meet

2 July 2009, 4:45 pm Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.... [Link]

Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status

2 July 2009, 3:16 pm Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... [Link]

U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property

2 July 2009, 2:50 pm A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.... [Link]

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