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The Times of Israel

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Writer: Uriel Heilman

May 24, 2013
4:16 pm

Duhenah Reveaka of Bobruisk, Belarus is among thousands of survivors who rely on Claims Conference funding for aid. (photo credit: Sarah Levin/JDC/JTA)

Claims Conference head ‘never considered’ public apology over huge fraud

$57million con took 12 years to root out. But cost was borne entirely by Germany, and Holocaust survivors were not adversely affected, chairman Julius Berman says

By Uriel Heilman

May 22, 2013
12:30 pm

Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)

Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud

Was the organization negligent in its internal investigations, or, after stealing $57m., is Semen Domnitser simply a shrewd criminal mastermind?

By Uriel Heilman

May 22, 2013
4:49 am

Greg Schneider, the executive vice president of the Claims Conference, has come under scrutiny for the organization's bungled handling of a 2001 letter warning about fraud. (photo credit: Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Making sense of the Claims Conference chaos

Why did it take so long for a $57 million fraud to be exposed?

By Uriel Heilman

May 19, 2013
12:49 pm

Orlando real estate developer and Jewish philanthropist Hank Katzen is aiming to create a perpetual funding source for the new Hillel at the University of Central Florida. (photo credit: Uriel Heilman/JTA)

With luxury dorm, philanthropists offer Hillel evergreen funding

Success of trailblazing self-sustaining facility will hinge not just on its financial viability but on what it does for Jewish life at fast-growing Orlando campus

By Uriel Heilman

March 6, 2013
11:32 pm

Students at the Beit Shmuel Jewish school in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2005 (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

With Chavez gone, where to for Venezuelan Jews?

Most of the community emigrated during the late president’s term. Now, the country’s problems are compounded by political turmoil

By Uriel Heilman

January 24, 2013
9:27 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with soldiers serving in the IDF's religious unit. (photo credit: Amos BenGershom/GPO/Flash90)

Can Lapid and Netanyahu find the glue to make things stick?

For partnership to work, prime minister may have to risk his long-term relationship with the haredi parties

By Uriel Heilman

January 23, 2013
2:51 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset at the opening of its winter session in October 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM’s faction slides, biggest party crashes, and yet Israel’s shift isn’t so vast

New priorities, new faces, new parties, but no radical switch across the right-left spectrum

By Uriel Heilman

November 13, 2012
11:11 pm

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky speak at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America last year. (David Karp/JTA)

With Jewish life splintering, federations focus on streamlining work

At annual gathering, communal organizations look toward updated model for philanthropy and budgeting

By Uriel Heilman

September 9, 2012
8:11 pm

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, right, the incoming president of the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, confers with Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, the Zidichiver rebbe, at Chicago's Siyum HaShas celebration. (photo credit: Fred Eckhouse Photography/JTA)

How much will new rabbinical school leader shake up the Orthodox world?

With an emphasis on ‘open Orthodoxy,’ Rabbi Asher Lopatin — soon to take over the liberal-leaning Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — is stirring up both interest and opposition

By Uriel Heilman

September 3, 2012
12:32 pm

Asher Lopatin to succeed Avi Weiss at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Weiss’ school was launched in 1999 as a more liberal alternative to YU’s rabbinical school and has encountered some opposition among more conservative elements in the Orthodox world

By Uriel Heilman

July 15, 2012
5:30 pm

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaking in Israel (Courtesy)

Jewish conservatives stirred by Condoleezza Rice’s approach to Israel

Former secretary of state may run as Mitt Romney’s number two

By Uriel Heilman

July 13, 2012
2:29 am

Can Greg Schneider steer the Claims Conference past unspeakable fraud?

A very in-depth look at how Claims Conference employees managed to steal more than $57 million from the German government in the name of Holocaust survivors, and how the organization has weathered the storm

By Uriel Heilman

May 13, 2012
1:57 pm

Steve Schwager, the executive director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, speaks at a plenary session of the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, November 8, 2009. (photo credit: Robert A. Cumins/JTA)

Steven Schwager: The (pre) exit interview

The ten-year CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is stepping down on June 30

By Uriel Heilman

May 13, 2012
12:56 pm

Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg of 'The Goldbergs.' (photo credit: CBS Television/JTA)

Yiddishe mamas all

For Mother’s Day 2012, a salute to 12 Jewish moms who changed our world

By Uriel Heilman

May 10, 2012
12:12 pm

Harold Grinspoon, the founder of PJ Library, reads one of the program's books with a gaggle of children. (photo credit: PJ Library/JTA)

3 million (free) books on, PJ Library eyes expansion

The program, now also in Hebrew, includes themes which reflect the personal predilections of the program’s founder, philanthropist Harold Grinspoon: tikkun olam, Jewish summer camp, visiting Israel and contemporary families enjoying Judaism

By Uriel Heilman

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Uriel Heilman

Claims Conference head ‘never considered’ public apology over huge fraud

$57million con took 12 years to root out. But cost was borne entirely by Germany, and Holocaust survivors were not adversely affected, chairman Julius Berman says

Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud

Was the organization negligent in its internal investigations, or, after stealing $57m., is Semen Domnitser simply a shrewd criminal mastermind?

Making sense of the Claims Conference chaos

Why did it take so long for a $57 million fraud to be exposed?

With luxury dorm, philanthropists offer Hillel evergreen funding

Success of trailblazing self-sustaining facility will hinge not just on its financial viability but on what it does for Jewish life at fast-growing Orlando campus

With Chavez gone, where to for Venezuelan Jews?

Most of the community emigrated during the late president’s term. Now, the country’s problems are compounded by political turmoil

Can Lapid and Netanyahu find the glue to make things stick?

For partnership to work, prime minister may have to risk his long-term relationship with the haredi parties

PM’s faction slides, biggest party crashes, and yet Israel’s shift isn’t so vast

New priorities, new faces, new parties, but no radical switch across the right-left spectrum

With Jewish life splintering, federations focus on streamlining work

At annual gathering, communal organizations look toward updated model for philanthropy and budgeting

How much will new rabbinical school leader shake up the Orthodox world?

With an emphasis on ‘open Orthodoxy,’ Rabbi Asher Lopatin — soon to take over the liberal-leaning Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — is stirring up both interest and opposition

Asher Lopatin to succeed Avi Weiss at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Weiss’ school was launched in 1999 as a more liberal alternative to YU’s rabbinical school and has encountered some opposition among more conservative elements in the Orthodox world

Jewish conservatives stirred by Condoleezza Rice’s approach to Israel

Former secretary of state may run as Mitt Romney’s number two

Can Greg Schneider steer the Claims Conference past unspeakable fraud?

A very in-depth look at how Claims Conference employees managed to steal more than $57 million from the German government in the name of Holocaust survivors, and how the organization has weathered the storm

Steven Schwager: The (pre) exit interview

The ten-year CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is stepping down on June 30

Yiddishe mamas all

For Mother’s Day 2012, a salute to 12 Jewish moms who changed our world

3 million (free) books on, PJ Library eyes expansion

The program, now also in Hebrew, includes themes which reflect the personal predilections of the program’s founder, philanthropist Harold Grinspoon: tikkun olam, Jewish summer camp, visiting Israel and contemporary families enjoying Judaism

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