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  June 10, 2005

  Paper’s Refusal of Ad Upholds Torah Values One wonders if a Jewish newspaper that decided not to accept ads for non-kosher restaurants or for Sabbath bingos would ever find itself the target of outraged criticism (“Buffalo Synagogue Boycotts a Paper for Nixing Gay Ad,” May 27). Yet the owners of the Buffalo Jewish Review, Rita…

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• Opinion

  The Nature of Being Ashkenazic

  We Jews call ourselves a family, and in many ways — for better and for worse — we act as if we were. We continue to preserve common laws, habits, language, texts and historical memories, as well as the belief that all of these are the gifts of an unknowable Deity who began our place…

  By Robert Pollack Jun 10, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Are We Being Fair to Messianic Jews?

  When you write a book called “Why the Jews Rejected Jesus” and make your e-mail address available on a Web site bearing your name, as I’ve done, you are going to get a lot of e-mail from strangers. Some of it will be friendly, some hostile and some just heartbreaking. In the last category, I…

  By David Klinghoffer Jun 10, 2005 | 4 min read

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• Dan Perry Trump’s new Gaza plan marks a radical break from Israeli policy — can it succeed?

  

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  Protecting the Wall

  On the face of it, the United States Supreme Court’s ruling this week on the religious rights of prisoners covers a fairly narrow field: It merely upholds one recent federal law that limits the ability of certain local authorities — mainly prisons and zoning commissions — to curtail religious practices. But while the direct impact…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Israel Journeys

  The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel took an important step forward this week with the launch of Masa, or Israel Journey, the new, multimillion-dollar effort to promote long-term study and volunteering in Israel by young adults. Experience shows there’s nothing better than a semester or two in Israel to strengthen human and…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Matters of Distinction

  One of the signal contributions of the American Jewish Committee, over many years now, has been its stream of publications reporting on and analyzing our community. Its annual “American Jewish Yearbook” has long been a staple in Jewish libraries; as David Harris wrote in his foreword to Volume 100, which appeared in the year 2000,…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 3, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Price of Multi-payer Health Care

  A memorable moment in the 1997 movie “As Good As It Gets” comes when the protagonist played by Helen Hunt, a hard-working waitress and mother of an asthmatic little boy, loses it when she learns that her health insurer will not pay for a doctor-advised diagnostic test. She explodes: “Those f—king HMO bastard pieces of…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Work To Create Communal Careers

  Across America, graduates are once again marching across university lawns and out into the work world. As the class of 2005 enters the labor market, Jewish organizations are hoping that more than a few will choose to work for them. From local synagogues to national agencies, Jewish communal work is a multi-billion dollar sector of…

  By Leonard Saxe and Shaul Kelner Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  June 3, 2005

  Airing Bias on NPR The attack by Samuel Freedman in a May 27 opinion article against the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, as well as his defense of National Public Radio’s Middle East coverage and his claims about initiatives by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are alarming considering that he is…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Democracy Gets a Reprieve

  Democracy got a reprieve in Washington this week, and America got some new heroes, when 14 United States senators — seven Democrats and seven Republicans — broke with their parties to forge a compromise that forestalled a Capitol Hill meltdown over judicial nominations. The heroism of the 14 is not of the sort we’re most…

  May 27, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Torturous Silence

  There are times he speaks with genuine passion, this president of ours. That’s what he did on the video he sent to the meeting of anti-Castro protesters in Cuba the other day, as also when he pledged to veto any bill that Congress might send to him calling for fetal stem-cell research. But there was…

  By Leonard Fein May 27, 2005 | 4 min read