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QUALITY TEXTURES FURNITURE FINISHING / PAINTING [5E16) 772-1776 • Fax (5136) 772-1816 16478 Common Road • Roseville, MI 48066 Email: qualitytextures@hotmail.com 8 April 14 • 2011 • >> roundup British Haredi Children Are Living In Poverty Euroleague Basketball To Accommodate Israel LONDON (JTA) — A new report warns of a sharp rise in child poverty in Britain's haredi Orthodox Jewish community. The report says the rise in child pover- ty is due to the haredi community's large families, lack of secular education and work skills, and cuts in both charitable giving and state social benefits. The issue is "most acute" among the haredi community, where "the alarm bells should be ringing loudly" according to the report, which was issued by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London. "Whilst the haredi community has a remarkable infrastructure of voluntary and professional social care, it remains highly questionable whether it will be able to provide sufficient support to meet a growing demand given the wider contemporary economic and political context;' the report said. The report noted that the 2001United Kingdom census showed that in London's Hackney borough, home to the largest haredi community, more than a quarter of Jews were living in overcrowded condi- tions. The census indicated more than 52,000 Jewish children live in Britain. Overall, it showed that nearly 8 percent lived in overcrowded conditions and 8.5 percent lived in households where no adult was employed; more than one-fifth of these children lived in Hackney. Outside the haredi community, instances of childhood poverty were very low': according to the report. To combat the threat, according to the report, haredi men should be encouraged to "develop the skills they require to go out and find work." LONDON (JTA) — The start time of the Euroleague championship basketball game has been moved up by several hours to accommo- date an Israeli team that does not want to play on its Memorial Day. The Euroleague said the May 8 final of its Final Four tournament in Barcelona, Spain, would be played at 5:30 p.m. Israel time, so as not to interfere with Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Maccabi Tel Aviv, the most awarded sports team in Israeli his- tory, qualified for the Final Four after beating the Spanish team Caja Laboral Vitoria in four games last week to capture their best-of- 5-series. Maccabi's general manager, Shimon Mizrachi, the winner of this year's prestigious Israel Prize, negotiated with the CEO of the Euroleague about changing the tipoff to an earlier hour. Maccabi, which has won the Euroleague title four times since 1977, must win its semifinal game on May 6 to qualify for the finals. The idea of an Israeli team playing on one of the most som- ber days on the Israeli calendar sparked controversy on the Israeli street. In Maccabi's case, it wasn't the first time. Twenty years ago, the club was heavily criticized for playing in the semifinals of the European Final Four in a game that ended after the start of Memorial Day in Israel. (( Nazi-Looted Painting Restored To Viennese BERLIN (JTA) — The second of two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from a Jewish family in Vienna has been returned to its heirs following two years of negotiations. The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe announced that a work by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868) was delivered by the Dresden Gemaldegalerie muse- um to London to be given to the heirs of the Rosauer family in Vienna. Another work, by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (1751-1830), was returned to the family late last year. It had been in the custody of the German government. The works were among 160 that belonged to three sisters, Malvine, Eugenie and Bertha Rosauer. Forced by their brother to remain unmarried, the sisters lived together in an apart- ment in Vienna. Malvine died there in 1940 and the two younger sisters were murdered in Treblinka in 1942. Of the entire family left in Vienna, only one great-nephew, the late Rudolf Epstein, survived. He had managed to save a watercolor painting of the family's home, in which many of the artworks were por- trayed. The only other evidence is a list of property that the sisters had to provide to the Nazis. Painstaking detective work revealed that the two now-restituted paint- ings were among the works that ended up in the hands of Hitler's art dealer, Julius Bohler of Munich. They changed hands several times before settling in the Dresden museum. Negotiations for their return began in 2009. Webber told JTA that clues have been found and now other works are being traced as well.