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...SUED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 72, U.S. film star, over the ownership of Vincent Van Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy; in Los Angeles. The descendants of Margarete Mauthner, a Jewish refugee who fled from Berlin to South Africa in 1939, say there is evidence the 1889 painting was confiscated from Mauthner by the Nazis. Taylor claims the painting, which she bought at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 and which is now worth $15 million, was sold by Mauthner in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, "for financial reasons...
...when one individual passes away, that is a certain setback. But since it's an issue of a nation, so long as the nation remains, the issue will remain. With sufficient willpower and sufficient economic [prosperity], then I think it is possible to carry on. Look at the Jewish community: for 1,000 years it has kept its spirit. Sometimes Tibetans become complacent if things are easy. If things become difficult and serious, then the Tibetan mind becomes quite strong...
Shalva, who hails from New York City, will come to Harvard every other weekend to assist in leading services, teaching classes, and participating in several venues in the Jewish community. He is a second-year rabbinic student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which declares itself “the intellectual and religious center of Conservative Judaism...
Kudan said, however, that he soon noticed that Hillel had placed an advertisement for a Conservative rabbi on a Jewish employment website. At the time, he said, Hillel had not had a Conservative rabbinic adviser for undergraduates for three years...
...letter, Steinberg emphasized that Harvard Hillel was the only Hillel in the country that actively tried to maintain a full-time rabbi for Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish communities. He cited a lack of funding as the reason that Hillel cannot employ three rabbis at the time...