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Diagnosis: Informed Citizen Disorder

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that one of the great pleasures of my life – reading the New York Times – is also bad for my health.

The gift of life insurance

Todd Gindy, a certified financial planner, likes to tell a story about Johnny Carson to illustrate how nonprofits miss a big opportunity when they don’t suggest donors use life insurance policies as a vehicle for charitable giving. For years, the longtime host of “The Tonight Show” gave $1 million every year to Children of the Night, an organization founded by Dr. Lois Lee to rescue child victims of sex trafficking.

Jewish organizations, others must stop interfering with Holocaust survivors’ rights

The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an “alternative” to the legislation that Holocaust survivors and children and grandchildren of survivors are seeking in Congress. The bills Rosensaft patronizingly calls “well-intentioned” are necessary to restore our rights to go to U.S. courts to recover insurance policies sold by Allianz, Generali, AXA, and other global insurers to our parents and grandparents which the companies dishonored after the Holocaust.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Obama healthcare law centerpiece

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the centerpiece of President Barack Obama\’s signature healthcare overhaul law that requires that most Americans get insurance by 2014 or pay a financial penalty.

Opinion: Crafting a Holocaust insurance solution that works

There is a solution to get us beyond the seemingly endless stalemates and complications that continue to characterize the ongoing debate over Holocaust-era insurance claims. And I do not believe it can be found in the well-intentioned bill before the U.S. Congress.

Holocaust insurance claims divide the Jewish community

Hardly a day goes by where Renee Firestone isn\’t asked by some school, museum, reporter or filmmaker to talk about the Holocaust. \”Somebody has to tell the story,\” she said. \”I am fortunate enough, at my age, to still be able to walk and talk. So I have to do it.\” Firestone is 88, with pale blue eyes and a warm, Cheshire cat smile. She manages a 24-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills, where she lives with her daughter, Klaire.

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