New York News

‘It’s Not Just A Question Of Money’

11/20/1998 | by Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

Another suit was readied this week in behalf of former Nazi slave laborers living in Israel even as some Jewish leaders expressed concern with the proliferation of Holocaust-related litigation. “It’s becoming a cottage industry,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
“This whole issue of restitution and reparation deals with a question of providing justice to the memory of those who are no longer here, and justice to history and individuals,” he said.

Melinda’s Next Move

11/20/1998 | by Adam Dickter | Staff Writer

Queens Assembly member Melinda Katz, who gave up her seat this year to run an unsuccessful campaign for Congress, is likely to assume a top job at the Queens borough president’s office, where she would be in charge of community board appointments, The Jewish Week has learned.

Storm Of Charity

11/20/1998 | by Steve Lipman  | Staff Writer

More than nearly $400,000 and one poem. That is the response of the American Jewry to the hurricane Mitch, which left 11,000 dead, 6,000 missing and 3,000,000 homeless in Central America.
National Jewish organizations report they have raised a total of $372,800 for relief efforts in the region in the two weeks since Mitch struck.
The largest amount, $259,800, has been collected by American Jewish World Service.

‘A Prince Of The Game’

11/20/1998 | by Eric J. Greenberg | Staff Writer

Most young boys learning to play basketball at the Jewish Community House in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in the early 1970s were trying to shoot jump shots like former New York Knick superstar Willis Reed. Or “shake and bake” like Earl (The Pearl) Monroe. Or play defense like Walt “Clyde” Frazier.
“Bradley from the corner. Yes!” That was the oft-heard exclamation from a happy 12-year-old who just launched a successful shot from the corner of the gym like his hero, “Dollar” Bill Bradley.

‘Dreaming Of What Might Have Been’

11/20/1998 | by Eric J. Greenberg | Staff Writer

Several hundred New York City Jewish community leaders and elected officials gathered last Thursday night to commemorate the third anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. The two-hour memorial for the Israeli leader who risked his life for peace was unfolding even as the drums of war rumbled once again in the Middle East as the late Rabin’s good friend, President Bill Clinton, was deciding on military action against Iraq.

New Approach To Life’s End

11/13/1998 | by Stewart Ain | Jewish Week Correspondent

Liza Lister, 6, died from her two-year battle with leukemia the way she had wanted — in her mother’s lap. Her mother, Dr. Elena Lister, a psychiatrist and analyst at Columbia and Cornell medical centers, credits the support she received from hospice care with making that possible.