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  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

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• 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

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman Liberal Zionists are under attack. A new book proves their work has never been more important

  

• Dan Perry How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood

  

• 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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  Make-believe Ethics

  Here’s an ethical puzzle: Suppose you are the head of a major American institution that wields influence around the world. You come across what seems to be solid evidence of mischief-making in America’s relations with the Islamic world. The evidence isn’t airtight, but you go with it. The result, unanticipated, is mayhem: bloodshed beyond your…

  May 27, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Stem-cell Funds Key to Health of Scientific Progress

  On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the most critical legislation to impact medical research in the 21st century. With more than 200 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle, the landmark Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act not only advances science but ushers in a new era of bipartisan collaboration in the…

  By June Walker May 27, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Israeli Foreign Disservice

  Before the current row between Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Daniel Ayalon, is dismissed as just another political sideshow, Jerusalem should understand that with the job of a successful ambassador in question, the continuity of Israeli-American relations is at stake. Having worked with Ayalon as his former speechwriter…

  By Jordan Nodel May 27, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  A Tradition of Questioning Tradition

  Despite the classic worries that American Jews are evaporating into America at a rapid pace, a study recently issued by the American Jewish Committee gives an indication of just how distinctive Jews have remained here in the great melting pot. The report, by Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center, reveals that Jews are…

  By Bethamie Horowitz May 27, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  May 27, 2005

  Virtual Shoah Survivors I want to congratulate opinion columnist Leonard Fein for his courage in tackling the issue of the March of the Living program (“Too Young To March?” May 13). I am not a stranger to marches. I was 12 when the Germans made us march from our homes through the length of our…

  May 27, 2005 | 6 min read
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  A Smoking Gun

  Among the embarrassing documents that surfaced during the mud-bath that was Great Britain’s parliamentary election this month, one of the most disturbing was a memo indicating that President Bush had his mind firmly set on war with Iraq as early as July 2002, nearly a year before the shooting began, and that America’s “intelligence and…

  May 20, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Welcome, Sharon

  When Israel’s prime minister appears before Jewish audiences in New York and Washington next week, he may seem to be facing a Jewish community that’s deeply divided on his policies. That’s not the case. There undoubtedly will be noisy demonstrators in both cities attacking him and his policies. Some will claim he is betraying Jewish…

  May 20, 2005 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Teach Children Nonprofit Literacy

  As a community and as parents, we’re passionate about teaching our children such values as charity and loving kindness. Today it’s practically de rigueur for Jewish 13-year-olds to take on a charity project as part of becoming a bar or bat mitzvah — and among American teenagers as a whole, volunteerism has gone way up….

  By Susan Grinel May 20, 2005 | 3 min read