Category
looting
Halle Berry Among Those Helping 81-Year-Old Persian Owner Rebuild Looted Dr. Martens Store
Kylie Ora Lobell
June 4, 2020
A former shopper at the store, Halle Berry helped raise $60,000 to rebuild.
Baltimore begins clean-up after riot over police-custody death
Jewish Journal
April 28, 2015
Baltimore residents on Tuesday began to clear the wreckage of rioting and fires that erupted after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody, while the city\’s mayor defended local law enforcement\’s light initial response.
As London burns, riots spread to Jewish communities
Jewish Journal
August 9, 2011
While some Jews in London marked Tisha b’Av on Tuesday by lamenting the burning of the Holy Temples on that day some two millennia ago, other London Jews watched as their city burned amid widespread rioting.
Artful Solution to Nazi Looting
Tom Tugend
May 26, 2005
After six years of litigation and diplomatic battles over Nazi-looted art, in a legal case stretching from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Vienna and back, the Austrian government has agreed with Maria Altmann, an 89-year old widow, to let arbitration decide who now owns masterpieces that once belonged to her family.
Ten Years After: The Jews Remain
Joel Kotkin
April 25, 2002
Recent events in the Middle East have been enough to make anyone pessimistic about the future of ethnic relations. But the situation here in Los Angeles — 10 years after the disastrous riots of April 1992 — gives some hope that racial reconciliation still has a future.
Whose Money?
Michael J
September 7, 2000
Since 1996, Jewish groups and their lawyers have gone to the mat with the likes of the Germans, the Swiss and the French, extracting $9 billion in restitution for the evil wrought in Europe by Nazi forces and their collaborators.
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