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Soles With Soul

Well heeled: Designer couture and vintage shoes on display for auction at a benefit for TheJewishWoman.org.
12/08/2009
Sharon Udasin
Staff Writer

Sandwiched between the sparkly Christmas windows of Bergdorf Goodman and the high-end Under Armour sportswear store, 75 or so modestly, yet trendily, clad women sipped organic kosher wines, enjoyed cheese hors d’oeuvres and tested their luck with various Christian Louboutin wedges, Gucci boots and Marc Jacobs slingbacks. 

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FBI Expands Probe Of Fraud At Holocaust Claims Conference

Claims Conference’s Greg Schneider: “Organized, complicated fraud” against group.

Pension fund for survivors bilked for more than $7 million, on top of Hardship Fund scheme.

07/07/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

 The thieves were good — very good.

So good, in fact, that they were able to change crucial data on official documents for more than a decade without raising the attention of experts at the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and even the German government.

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Aging Grace

07/06/2010
Elicia Brown
Special To The Jewish Week

On a chilly spring morning, I faced my grandmother’s grave for a second time, there to mark the ritual unveiling of her tombstone. My grandmother, a woman of good cheer and many years, seemed to hover about the small gathering, lending the day a bittersweet spirit. 

But what I remember distinctly about that morning of mourning, is not just the moment when my 8-year-old daughter Talia and I huddled together and blinked back tears as we stared at the gravestone. What I also recall is the other goodbye. 

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Expands Probe In Fraud At Holocaust Claims Conference

07/05/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

(POSTED MONDAY, JULY 5, 1:30 p.m.)  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has widened its probe into allegedly fraudulent Holocaust-era claims that could have bilked the German government out of millions of dollars, The Jewish Week has learned.

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Rubashkin Appeals Federal Conviction, Sentence

07/04/2010

(JTA) -- Attorneys for kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin filed an appeal of his conviction on federal financial fraud charges and long prison sentence.

The appeal was filed Friday in the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.

Rubashkin was convicted last November on 86 counts of fraud in connection with the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa. He was sentenced last month to 27 years in a federal prison

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Summer Interns in Chicago: Building a Community and Jewish Identity

2010 participants in the Lewis Family Summer Intern Program
07/02/2010
Spencer Parsons
Special to the Jewish Week

The 2010-2011 school year is likely to be a busy one for pro-Israel advocates on college campuses across North America. Jessica Ost, a rising junior at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is spending her summer vacation preparing for the battles ahead.

Jessica is working with the Chicago Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), where she is learning Israel advocacy as well as other issues related to the Jewish community as part of the Harriet and Maurice Lewis Family Summer Intern Program, a project of Hillels of Illinois.

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Intermarriage In The Motor Suburbs

Submitted by Julie Wiener on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 10:59

 For two years in the late 1990s, Detroit’s northwest suburbs — where most of its Jews live — were my stomping (or, more accurately, driving) grounds.

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Is It Ethical to Read My Husband's Email?

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
06/29/2010
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
Special to the Jewish Week

Q. Is it ethical to read my husband’s email? I don't have reason to think he's cheating, but I' m the nervous type…

If you have no reason to suspect him, you would be putting far too much at risk by invading his privacy.  You in fact would be the one guilty of betraying trust.  Let it go.

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Israeli Foreign Ministry employees stage slowdown, could affect Netanyahu's U.S. visit

06/28/2010

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Foreign Ministry employees have stopped making arrangements for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington next month.

The action is part of a partial strike to achieve better wages for Israeli diplomats, Haaretz reported Monday.

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Orthodox Union Official: Don’t Exclude in the Name of Inclusion

06/28/2010
Nathan Diament
Special to the Jewish Week

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Lynn Schusterman, a passionate and impactful philanthropic leader in the American Jewish community, has called upon Jewish organizations to adopt policies that will foster greater inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Jews in the community.

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