{"id":20897,"date":"2010-07-23T17:39:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_citing_madoff_losses_american_jewish_congress_suspends_operations\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:39:03","slug":"rns_citing_madoff_losses_american_jewish_congress_suspends_operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20897","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Citing Madoff Losses, American Jewish Congress Suspends Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Jewish Congress, a national advocacy group that has argued for church-state separation on prayer in public schools, has laid off most employees and suspended operations.<\/p>\n<p>The 92-year-old organization lost $21 million of its $24 million endowment to Bernard Madoff\u2019s Ponzi scheme, which devastated a range of Jewish groups, including Yeshiva University. As with other nonprofits, the economic downturn has also hobbled fundraising efforts, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=16421\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Jewish Congress, a national advocacy group that has argued for church-state separation on prayer in public schools, has laid off most employees and suspended operations. The 92-year-old organization lost $21 million of its $24 million endowment to Bernard<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20897\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,660,149,168,429,155,108,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-bernard-madoff-scandal","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}