Tag: Michael Steinhardt
NYC Returns $19 Million Worth of Antiquities Seized from Michael Steinhardt
"For decades, Michael Steinhardt displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts without concern for the legality of his actions."
Taglit-Birthright Founder Michael Steinhardt Banned for Life from Antiquities Trade, Must Return $70 Million...
According to DA Vance, the seized pieces were looted and illegally smuggled out of 11 countries, and trafficked by 12 criminal smuggling networks.
NC Pluralistic Jewish Academy Shuts Down Abruptly, But Wait, There’s More
Now here's the kind of coincidence that should be filed under disastrous divine interventions.
Kagame, Weisel, Adelson, Steinhardt and Boteach in Panel on Genocide
In the wake of the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, the fear of genocide has once again been cast on a world stage....
2 Museums Buy Steinhardts’ Rambam Manuscript for Record Price
The sale price exceeded $2.9 million.
Birthright Celebrates Bar Mitzvah Year With Jerusalem Party
Some 3,000 young Jews from around the world celebrated Birthright Israel's bar mitzvah year with a party in Jerusalem.
Secrets of Israeli Success Revealed in New Documentary
A new feature-length documentary starring one of Harvard University’s all-time most popular professors reveals the secret components of Israel’s success as an international leader in innovation and humanitarianism.
The Values That Make Judaism Unique
Two weeks ago I debated Michael Steinhardt, the renowned philanthropist and self-declared atheist, and Prof. Noah Feldman, arguably America's foremost thirty-something legal mind, on the subject of whether or not Jews are different based on their values.