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Current Issue
July 25, 2008/Tammuz 22 5768, Volume 60, No. 50
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Legal assistance for survivors
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JFCS, lawyers help with reparations application
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Jewish Family & Children's Service and local attorneys are helping Holocaust survivors apply for a new reparations program available through the German government.
The new Ghetto Fund, established in September 2007, pays symbolic compensation for "voluntary" work in German-controlled ghettos from 1939 to 1944. To be eligible for the one-time payment of 2,000 euros (about $3,000), survivors who worked in German-controlled ghettos must have worked without a threat of force.
Bet Tzedek, a legal services organization in Los Angeles, launched a national pro bono effort in November to assist survivors with the application process. Stan Levy, a senior attorney at Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles, spearheaded the national effort.
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Politics on the playground
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Paradise Valley native returns home to film movie
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Producer Stosh Mintek herds the cast of "Elementary Cool," an independent short film, under an overhang that overlooks the playground at Cherokee Elementary School in Paradise Valley.
"OK, guys," he shouts. "We're going to take the last shot of the day. It's called 'Storm the Jungle Gym.' I think everyone knows what that means."
It is 1:30 in the afternoon, well over 100 degrees outside, and the sweat splotches on Mintek's lime-green T-shirt have grown larger and darker as the day has progressed. This might be the last shot, but the phrase "one more time" has become commonplace. The crew knows that "one more time" will likely turn into four or five.
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Jewish News, others join Facebook network
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Jewish News recently joined a number of local Jewish organizations on Facebook, an online social network.
"Our goal is to extend our reach," said Jewish News Publisher Flo Eckstein. "Our Web site, jewishaz.com, is generating nearly 1.5 million page views a month and growing. Facebook will enable us to connect with still more readers interested in news about the Jewish community and the Jewish world."
Jewish News' Facebook page features highlights of each weekly issue and additional content.
"We invite Facebook members to visit our page and become fans," Eckstein said.
The Young Leadership Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix set up its page in 2006 and this month reached 1,000 members, or "friends," to use Facebook's terminology. YLD, a group for young adults ages 22-45, uses the page to provide information on events, missions to Israel and other Jewish happenings in the Greater Phoenix area for adults in that age group.
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