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‘No Alternative to Day Schools’: An Exchange

In our December 11 issue, the Forward published an opinion article from Rabbi Irving Greenberg titled “There Is No Alternative to Day Schools.” Lamenting what he sees as an increasing tendency in the Jewish community to look beyond day schools in favor of less expensive educational alternatives, Greenberg wrote: “I, too, wish there were a cheap, effective alternative to day schools — but there is not.” The Forward invited a diverse group of scholars and Jewish education specialists to respond to Greenberg’s essay.Read More

On Health, Settling for Change We Can Agree On

By Rashi Fein

Harvard University medical economist Rashi Fein argues that moving forward on health care reform will require bipartisan compromise — and settling for something less than universal coverage.Read More

Build a Partnership for Peace, Right Here in America

By Ziad J. Asali

With the turbulence surrounding diplomacy and the Middle East peace process, it is more urgent than ever for civil society to unite around the obvious reality that a conflict-ending solution can only be attained through the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.Read More

The Brothers Fein: Big Dreams and Baby Steps

By Leonard Fein

In my family, we specialize. Ever since graduate school, the specialty of my older brother, Rashi, has been the economics of health care. He was an early and fervent advocate of single-payer national health insurance, and his expert knowledge and thoughtful approaches were widely sought and widely hailed. From time to rare time over the years, he could glimpse, in the far distance, success, sometimes whole, more often partial, almost always fleeting.Read More

Shaking the Pillars of Israeli Democracy

By J.J. Goldberg

There’s an old rule of thumb among journalists, safety engineers and other professional snoops: One is happenstance, two is a coincidence, three is a trend.Read More

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