German judge evades punishment for helping survivors apply for ghetto pensions Jewish and other leaders had pressed the case for the judge, who had gone to Israel to interview more than 120 Holocaust survivors.
Alexis Arquette, Jewish transgender actress and advocate, dies at 47 Arquette, a sibling of four actors, chronicled her gender transition and sex reassignment surgery in a 2007 documentary.
Barbra Streisand to chair arts center at 9/11 site The long-delayed project was included in the master plan of architect Daniel Libeskind.