Word: cohn
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HUAM Acting Director Marjorie B. Cohn said the uncertain economy and stagnant endowment payouts were to blame for the layoffs. Seventy percent of the art museums’ operating budget comes from endowment revenue, Cohn said...
Though museum officials said they do not yet know who will be let go, they have formed a task force—headed by Cohn and HUAM Deputy Director Richard D. Benefield—to decide where to make the cuts...
...museum operations are of course bounded by things like our union contracts, by utilities costs, by benefits costs, insurance costs, all kinds of costs that have built-in rises,” said Cohn. “It’s a guarantee of a deficit for the museums operations...
...Cohn said the task force would carefully review where to make cuts...
...vice-president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, concedes that some opponents were motivated by genuine concern for animals. But he says, "part of it was motivated by anti-Semitism, that's for sure. We had threatening letters." The F.A.W.C. has a surprising ally in Reform rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, a professor of Judaism at the University of Wales. He argues that Jews can live perfectly religious lives without meat, as he has done for the past decade. There's no doubt, he says, that Shechita "was the most humane form of slaughter" when it developed over a millennium...