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The Jewish Theological Seminary announced that it still has a $5.5 million budget gap even after a round of cuts. In a letter to the seminary community, Chancellor Arnold Eisen detailed the cuts, describing them as "challenging and painful," and noted that more steps must be taken. More ... Arlen Specter, the only Jewish Republican in the U.S. Senate, is becoming a Democrat. Specter, a longtime Pennsylvania lawmaker, announced that he switched his party affiliation and will run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary. More ... A message written by Nazi prisoners and placed in a bottle was discovered by builders working near the site of the Auschwitz death camp. The bottle was discovered hidden in a concrete wall in a school that prisoners had been forced to reinforce, according to an Auschwitz museum official. More ... Actress Bea Arthur, famous for her roles in the television sitcoms "Maude" and "The Golden Girls," has died. Arthur died in her Los Angeles home, reportedly from cancer. She was 86. Arthur, born Bernice Frankel in New York, played Yenta the matchmaker in the original Broadway version of "Fiddler on the Roof. More ... A Jewish day school's championship mock trial team claims it is being discriminated against and has asked for a federal investigation. The families of the three students who comprise the squad at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass. More ... A top Reform Jewish leader and five U.S. Congress members were arrested for civil disobedience outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, joined other Darfur activists and Reps. Jim McGovern (DMass.), John Lewis (D-Ga.), Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn. More ... Thousands of Brazilian Jews rallied to protest a scheduled visit to their country by Iran's president and to remember the Holocaust. Some 2,500 people participated in the ninth annual Regional March of the Living in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city and home to half of the country's 120,000-member Jewish community. More ... |
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