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Study Urges Investment in Arab Schools
WASHINGTON — Education is the key to liberalizing and stabilizing Arab countries, according to a new study that recommends that the United States invest money to help develop high-quality, secular schools in the Middle East. The study, “The Youth Factor,” was published by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Washington’s Brookings Institution, and…
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On the Blower: A Blast From the Past
When it comes to living the American dream, American Jews take the cake. As early as 1927, a market survey commissioned by the Jewish Daily Forward found them to be the most avid of consumers. “It is not only in food that the Jews surpass [others] as spenders,” reported the survey. They also spend a…
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Overseas Travel Rebounding for Israelis
JERUSALEM — Propelled by the optimism of the Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire and a modest economic upturn, Israelis are traveling abroad this summer in numbers not seen since before the intifada, government and industry spokesmen say. The number of Israelis who left Israel during the first seven months of this year was up 8.5% over the same…
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Ignorance Is Far From Bliss for Israeli Education
“We have the most profoundly ignorant Jewish population since Sinai,” said Richard Joel, Yeshiva University’s incoming president and the keynote speaker at the July 28 AMIT installation dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel. Lamenting “Jewish illiteracy,” Joel recalled asking a Jewish audience in the South if they could identify the names of Jesus’ mother and Moses’…
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Jobs Wash Away in Trade War
The common expression “He’s his own worst enemy” is usually applied to individuals. But it can also be applied to nations that pursue self-destructive policies. The current circumstance that serves as a perfect case is a “war” between the United States and China over their respective share of the American market. It is a war…
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Erasing the Shadow of Fear
My honored senior colleague, Rabbi Myer Kripke of Omaha, Neb., writes to me regarding Numbers 27:1, where the daughters of Tzelophechad (Zelophehad) are mentioned. He wonders whether there is any midrash on the name Tzelophechad, which he divides into two parts, as though it were shorthand combining two words into one. This is an old…
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Faith-Based Prison Program’s Success Questioned
WASHINGTON — A recent study that was widely presented as documenting the success of an all-Christian rehabilitation program in a Texas state prison — and serving as proof that the Bush administration-backed programs should be expanded — actually shows that the program is a failure. The two-year study (2000-2002), published jointly by the University of…
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SUMMERTIME IN THE CITY
Seeds of Sun, a New York-based jazz quintet comprising five Israeli musicians, performs four sets of jazzed up Israeli and Jewish songs. Their performance is part of the Jewish Museum’s “SummerNights” programming, which pairs musical performances and TV classics on Thursday evenings. The band features vocalist Sagit Sherman, a former Israeli air force soloist; flutist…
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Dems Blast Bush Over Threats to Israel
In what some observers are describing as a campaign to shore up Jewish electoral support, congressional Democrats are blasting the White House for allegedly pressuring Israel to cease construction of its West Bank security fence. Thirty-one congressmen, all but two of them Democrats, signed on to a recent letter blasting administration officials for suggesting, in…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Heritage Night: Beta Israel of North America presents Ethiopian-Judaic Heritage Night. Ephraim Isaac, president of the Yemenite Jewish Federation of America, speaks on “Two Pictures of Ethiopia,” and a U.N. representative discusses Ethiopia’s drought. Ethiopian arts and crafts are displayed, as well as photographs of Ethiopian Jews by Joan Roth and Win…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Agnostic About Arnold: California’s top Republican brass is decidedly agnostic about the gubernatorial bid of moderate Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite the media frenzy it touched off and polls showing the actor to be the leading candidate. Basically, they’re waiting to see whether he will survive whatever dirt comes out in the press — such as…
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