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A year later, Jewish charities still hurting from Madoff blow

Nancy Falchuk will never forget the phone call. She was in Boston, it was raining and the news…

Nancy Falchuk will never forget the phone call. She was in Boston, it was raining and the news was bad. Hadassah, the century-old Jewish charity she had been elected to lead a year earlier, had just lost a big chunk of its endowment in a Ponzi scheme — maybe as much as $90 million.

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