Clinton wants Ashcroft to aid survivors
new york (jta) | Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is calling on the U.S. attorney general to aid Holocaust survivors who lost assets on the “Gold Train.”
In a letter to John Ashcroft, Clinton said the Justice Department needed to expedite the process of returning items that had been taken from Hungarian Jews by the Nazis and were seized by U.S. forces in May 1945 on a train in Werfen, Austria.
“These survivors are elderly and many of them are in ill health,” Clinton wrote. “I am alarmed by reports that the judge in this case has warned the United States Department of Justice that it is ‘dragging its feet.'”
Anti-Semitic acts spike in N.Y.
new york (jta) | Anti-Semitic incidents in New York spiked sharply during the last three months of 2003, a new report says.
There were 57 such incidents during the last three months of 2003, as opposed to 31 during the same period in 2002, according to the report released by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
Better than a pen-and-pencil set?
new york (jta) | A mutual fund that invests in Israeli companies is offering a stock gift worth $18 to U.S. children having a bar- or bat mitzvah.
The Blue and White Fund invests in Israeli firms that are traded on U.S. stock exchanges.
Only individuals with a bar- or bat mitzvah invitation or a proof from a rabbi are eligible.