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Citing Stolen Antiquities Scandal, Michael Steinhardt Resigns From
NYU Board of Trustees
After 27 years in leadership roles at New York University, Michael Steinhardt,
the Wall Street businessman and megadonor to Jewish causes accused of traf-
ficking in stolen antiquities and sexual harassment, has stepped down from the
university’s board of trustees, JTA reported.

“I regret that my antiquities collecting has impacted the university and
distracted from the important work of the faculty and global community,”
Steinhardt wrote in a letter to the board. “As a result, I have decided to step down
as a Life Trustee.”
His wife, Judy Steinhardt, remains listed as a life trustee, which is a non-voting
member of the board governing the university, and NYU’s Steinhardt School of
Culture, Education, and Human Development continues to carry the family name.

In a deal to avoid prosecution, Steinhardt agreed to surrender $70 million
worth of ancient artifacts that were looted from 11 countries, including Israel.

Steinhardt has not admitted to any wrongdoing and his lawyers have suggested
he was fooled into buying the stolen relics.

Spanish Town Previously Named Fort Kill the Jews Vandalized
Again With Antisemitic Graffiti
A tiny village in northern Spain that from 1627 until 2015 was named Fort
Kill the Jews was hit with antisemitic graffiti on Aug. 3, and its mayor said he
believes neo-Nazi groups carried out the vandalism because they had heard a
Jewish family was moving back into the town, JTA reported.

As reported by the El País daily, the family will soon join another Jewish one
that moved to the town earlier this year — the first to do so since medieval times.

Originally named Castrillo Motajudíos, or Jew’s Hill Fort, in 1035 when Jews
fleeing from a neighboring pogrom settled there, the town was renamed Castrillo
Matajudíos — Fort Kill The Jews — in 1627, during a period of extreme religious
persecution carried out by the Inquisition.

Vandals spray painted the word Auschwitz, the name of the infamous former
Nazi camp, onto one of the village’s signs with its restored current name. They
also wrote the Fort Kill the Jews name onto a signpost that leads into the town.

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Canada Says Jews Were Most-Targeted Religious Minority for Hate
Crimes Last Year
Canada’s 380,000 Jews were the most targeted religious minority for hate crimes
reported to police in 2021, the country’s official numbers keeper reported,
according to JTA.

Statistics Canada said that the Jewish community, comprising about 1% of the
population, were victims of 14% of reported hate crimes. Jews saw a 47% rise in
reported hate crimes compared to 2020, according to the bureau.

Only Black Canadians, who make up about 3.5% of the country’s population,
reported more hate crimes. Overall, 1.3 Canadian Jews in every 1,000 reported
being victims of hate crime in 2021.

“Statistically, Canadian Jews were more than 10 times more likely than any
other Canadian religious minority to report being the target of hate crime,” said
Shimon Koffler Fogel, head of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. “This is
alarming.” World-Class Tennis Returns to Israel After 26 Years
The Association of Tennis Professionals announced its new tournament in the
ATP 250 category: the Tel Aviv Watergen Open 2022, featuring some of the
world’s top-20 ranked male pro players, jns.org reported.

More than 26 years after Israel last hosted a major tennis competition, the
tourney will begin at Expo Tel Aviv on Sept. 25. Singles and doubles finals
are scheduled for Oct. 2, with players vying for nearly $1.2 million in prize
money. The top-tier ATP 250 tournament is coming to Israel because of a joint effort by
the Israel Tennis Association and water-from-air technology company Watergen,
the competition’s sponsor. JE
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