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  The Other Jewish Vote

  The results of the balloting for the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress, announced in New York this week, can easily be taken as evidence of the continuing decline of organized Zionism in this country. Voting in the quadrennial Zionist elections, which peaked in 1987 at close to a quarter-million voters, dropped this year…

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  Harold Ostroff

  Few of us are privileged to have a career that allows us to live our ideals while transforming the world we live in. Harold Ostroff had two. In his first career, as head of the United Housing Foundation, he was America’s most successful champion of affordable cooperative housing for working families. In his second, as…

  Mar 10, 2006 | < 1 min read
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  Confronting Discontinuity on Campus

  Last week Avraham Infeld, president of the Jewish campus organization Hillel, rightfully stated that tzedakah is easier than tzedek. The difference between charity and justice, he pointed out at the Spitzer Forum on Public Policy/JCPA Plenum, is the difference between providing essentials like food or clothing and dealing with the root causes of poverty and…

  By Benjamin Murane and Ilana Sichel Mar 10, 2006 | 4 min read

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• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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  Expand Access to Spiritual Tradition

  Birthright Israel is poised to take its 100,000th Jewish young adult to Israel for a 10-day educational experience. The program has reached massive numbers of college-age Jews, and already nearly 25,000 North American young adults have applied in recent weeks for the 10,000 or so slots available for this coming summer. What, though, about the…

  By Amy Sales and Leonard Saxe Mar 10, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Lessons From the Front

  Later this month, America and the world will mark the third anniversary of our nation’s invasion of Iraq. It is a sobering moment, and an appropriate time to take stock. If things had gone according to plan, Islamist terrorism would now be on the wane, the Middle East would be a more stable place, the…

  Mar 3, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Beware Victimhood Becoming French Jewry’s Identity

  It was inspiring to see nearly 200,000 people out on the streets of Paris and other French cities last weekend, protesting the grisly torture and murder of a young Jewish man at the hands of a gang of mostly Muslim immigrants. The massive public outcry against antisemitism, led by some of France’s leading politicians, echoed…

  By Eric Frey Mar 3, 2006 | 3 min read
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  ‘Lieberman Democrats’ Have No Place In an Opposition Party

  Politicians of all stripes were outraged when news first broke about the Dubai port deal, but not Senator Joseph Lieberman. Declaring that it was “not yet” time to block the deal, Lieberman distinguished himself as one of the few legislators — and the only prominent Democrat — to support the Bush administration in the firestorm…

  By Ari Melber Mar 3, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Celebrating Women’s History, One Month at a Time

  Each March, “Women’s History Month” is officially celebrated, offering a relatively random opportunity to focus for a short period of time on a historical experience that remains largely invisible in mainstream histories. Arbitrary as the celebration may be, those who take full advantage of a commemorative month like this often learn how central these supposedly…

  By Karla Goldman Mar 3, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Sanction Palestinian Moderation By Imposing Moderate Sanctions

  In 1994, I had the good fortune of being present when the former president of South Africa, F. W. DeKlerk, claimed with a laugh that his country had successfully avoided the sanctions imposed on it by the United Nations. Seen from where he sat in Pretoria, he may well have spoken the truth. Those hardest…

  By Martin van Creveld Feb 24, 2006 | 4 min read
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  When Good News Is Bad News

  Across the country, the value of homes has been on the rise. That’s the good news. As the worth of homes rises in value, so, too, do taxes. That’s the bad news. How does this all work out? Let’s consider today’s most dramatic case — namely California, the most populous state in the union. The…

  By Gus Tyler Feb 24, 2006 | 2 min read
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  Words Won’t Save Sudan

  Donald Rumsfeld, our misguided defense secretary, told the Council on Foreign Relations the other day that the United States is deficient in its public relations. He proposed a number of remedies, such as the rapid deployment of “the best military communications capabilities to new theaters of operation” and the development and execution of “multifaceted media…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 24, 2006 | 4 min read