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As the grandchild of German survivors, Rabbi Dovid Asher’s intense interest in the case is very personal
A few weeks back, I wrote about Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and her widely covered analysis of the 2020 election. Now, thanks to constituent Rabbi Dovid Asher, a rav in Richmond, Virginia, she’s in the news again, going to bat for the families of survivors who are the plaintiffs in two Holocaust restitution cases that are now before the US Supreme Court.
In one case, Republic of Hungary v. Simon, the plaintiffs are 14 Hungarian Jewish survivors whose property was confiscated by the Hungarian government in a “wholesale plunder” prior to their deportation to death camps as part of the Nazi annihilation of more than two-thirds of Hungary’s Jews. In the other litigation, Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, the plaintiffs are heirs of German Jewish art dealers who were forced to sell a very valuable collection of artworks at a fraction of