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Kosher Certification Agency Sues JetBlue, Says it Lied About a
Kosher Snack
One of the United States’ largest kosher certifying agencies alleges that JetBlue
airlines sold a snack it falsely claimed was certified as kosher, JTA reported.

In a lawsuit filed on June 23, Kof-K said JetBlue put the agency’s hechsher, or
rabbinical approval symbol, on an artichoke snack that the agency never certified.

The company that makes the artichoke snack, Elma Farms, wasn’t named in
the suit. A JetBlue spokesperson told Reuters that the airline is investigating the
claims. An attorney for Kof-K declined to comment to Reuters.

JetBlue’s $9 snack box also included products certified kosher by the Orthodox
Union, the Kashruth Council of Canada and EarthKosher.

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AI Facial Recognition IDs Rocker Geddy Lee’s Mother in Anonymous
Holocaust Photos
Rock star Geddy Lee found never-before-seen photos of his mother’s family
thanks to a new effort to apply artificial intelligence facial recognition technol-
ogy to photographs from the Holocaust, JTA reported.

Lee’s mother, Holocaust survivor Mary Weinrib, died last summer at 95. But
the researchers of the AI technology, From Numbers to Names, managed to find
a photo of Weinrib from her time at the displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen
— a photo that then led Lee to find other photos of his mother’s extended family
from the Yad Vashem photo collection.

Created by Daniel Patt, a Google engineer and the descendant of four Holocaust
survivors, From Numbers to Names allows users to upload a photo and then sug-
gests 10 other photos with faces that could be a match. The technology is now being
used by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s photograph collection.

Israeli Emergency Services Group Founder Accused of Sexual
Abuse Dies a Year After Suicide Attempt
A disgraced rabbi who had been awarded Israel’s highest national honor shortly
before being accused of sexual abuse and rape, including of children, has died,
JTA reported.

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav died at 62 on June 29 in Jerusalem, where he had been
hospitalized for more than a year since attempting suicide amid mounting alle-
gations against him.

Meshi-Zahav was the founder of Zaka, an emergency medical services organi-
zation that provides search-and-rescue aid after disasters around the world as well
as in Israel, where the group ensured that Jewish victims would be handled per
Jewish law. Zaka’s work made Meshi-Zahav a hero in Israel, which enlisted him to
recruit more haredi Orthodox Jews into national service and last year announced
that he would receive the Israel Prize, the country’s highest honor.

But shortly after the announcement, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported
multiple allegations against Meshi-Zahav from men and women who said they
had been raped, molested and threatened by him, some while they were teenagers.

101-year-old Former Nazi Death Camp Guard Receives Five Years in
Prison The oldest former Nazi camp guard ever put on trial in Germany was sentenced
to five years in prison, JTA reported.

Josef Schütz, 101, was found guilty of complicity in the mass murder of 3,518 prison-
ers at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.

The presiding judge at the court in Brandenburg-Havel concluded that Schütz
was “aware that prisoners were killed there. “By your presence, you supported”
these acts, he told the accused, according to a report by Euronews and AFP.

“Anyone who wanted to flee the camp was shot. Thus, every camp guard actively
participated in the killings.”
Whether Schütz will spend any time in prison remains to be seen. The mini-
mum sentence for complicity in murder would have been three years, the reports
said. Schütz’s lawyer, Stefan Waterkamp, had said in advance that he would likely
appeal, putting off the start of a prison term to early 2023. JE
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