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NEW YORK (JTA) -- The North American Jewish federation system, its educational arm and 13 national Jewish organizations are launching a comprehensive Web site listing Jewish communal jobs.

JewishJobFinder.com, which will debut next month, will offer information on Jewish communal careers and feature a database of job openings, as well as resumes posted to the site by job seekers.

Chopper crash kills 5 Orthodox travelers

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Five Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn were killed in a helicopter crash near the Grand Canyon.

The five tourists killed last Friday were part of a group of about 20 friends and family on a four-day vacation at the Bellagio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, according to Steven Golomb, a friend of the victims. "Two wives are left without husbands because they were on the other helicopter," Golomb told the Associated Press.

The sole survivor, Chana Daskai, suffered burns over 80 percent of her body.

Motion picture event: Mid-career rabbis

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary is making a documentary film on the growing number of people who decide to become rabbis and cantors for second careers.

"Faith: Second Career Clergy" is scheduled to air early next year on ABC stations in the United States.

Embezzling rabbis took from survivors

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Two New York City rabbis were sentenced to nearly three years in prison for embezzling $2.5 million meant for training counselors for elderly Holocaust survivors.

Efroim Stein and Jacob Bronner pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy charges.

Prosecutors said Stein slipped funds to his synagogue and to subcontractors in exchange for kickbacks and falsely put his relatives on the payroll as trainers.

Teachers may enlist in 'boot camp' soon

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Several North American Jewish organizations, including the federation system and Birthright Israel, hope to have a Jewish version of Teach for America in place by next summer, according to Ron Wolfson, vice president of the Los Angeles-based University of Judaism.

The project, which Wolfson describes in the latest issue of the Jewish Life Network's magazine and which the university is spearheading, would recruit hundreds of college students and alumni of Israel trips to teach in Jewish schools and would train them in a Jewish teachers' "boot camp."

Observant professor can make bias case

TRENTON (JTA) -- A U.S. appeals court ruled that a hostile work environment claim can be based on religious bias.

An Orthodox college professor in New Jersey alleged that her supervisors were discriminating against her because of her holiday and Sabbath observance. The court said the professor should be allowed to present the hostile work environment claim to a jury.