Embezzlement charges were dismissed against a former bookkeeper at the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. A judge dropped the charges against Jean Thorbourn because a grand jury that indicted her did not know that HUC administrators knew about the embezzlement. Thorbourn, 63, was accused last year of forging checks to embezzle more than $1 million from the HUC between 1989 and 1997.
Reporting the stories that define our era. When history unfolds in real-time, the Jewish world turns to JTA. Your support ensures we can document the complexities of war and the resilience of Jewish communities with integrity.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
