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  Our Kids and the Workplace

  Thousands of children will go to work with their mothers or fathers on Ms. Magazine’s “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” in April. Most of the kids will spend the day in a white-collar enclave, the sort of place they may hope or expect to inhabit in four or eight or 10 years….

  By Kathleen Peratis

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  A Yellow Cab Ride to Minsk

  I got into the cab and sat back after telling the driver where I was going. Then I looked to see what country he came from, but the taxi driver’s face didn’t match what I thought was the Russian Jewish name on the license barely visible behind the clouded-glass partition. He was dark and unshaven….

  By Roseline Glazer Dec 31, 2004 | 3 min read
• Letters

  December 31, 2004

  The Nucleus of Faith Cannot Be Science In his December 24 opinion column, David Klinghoffer cites the work of physicist Gerald Schroeder as a primary influence behind Antony Flew’s famous turn toward theism (“A Former Atheist Gives Us a Reason To Believe”). Klinghoffer begins with a wonderful statement about Jews being divinely ordained teachers, and…

  Dec 31, 2004 | 6 min read

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  Searching for the Next Herzl

  The funeral took place in Vienna on July 7, 1904. The stunning announcement had come three days earlier: Theodor Herzl, dead at age 44. Here is Stefan Zweig’s description of the day, as quoted by Ernst Pawel in “The Labyrinth of Exile, A Life of Theodor Herzl”: “A strange day it was, a day in…

  By Leonard Fein Dec 24, 2004 | 4 min read
• Letters

  December 24, 2004

  ‘You Gotta Go to Iran’ David Twersky’s selective quote in his December 17 opinion article on the exchange between Bill O’Reilly and his radio caller is misleading (“A Lesson in American Civics”). According to Twersky’s rendering, O’Reilly said that the United States is “a predominantly Christian nation.” “If you are really offended,” O’Reilly added according…

  Dec 24, 2004 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Representative… of Big Industry

  After 24 years as a prominent member of the House of Representatives, Billy Tauzin left for what was another and much more lucrative job. However, the underlying truth is that he did not change his true job at all. While in Congress, he represented the pharmaceutical industry sub rosa, and now he will represent the…

  By Gus Tyler Dec 24, 2004 | 2 min read
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  Old Friends, Shattered Dreams

  One day back in the late 1980s, during another interminable cocktail party in another New York Jewish office suite, I had the good fortune to find myself in a quiet corner with Malcolm Hoenlein, then recently installed as executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. It turned into one of…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 24, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  A Former Atheist Gives Us a Reason To Believe

  Did you ever ask yourself why God bothered to make Jews? Why did He take the trouble to create us as a people apart, with all the special rules the Torah mandates — eating only kosher food, observing the Sabbath and so on — with their obvious intention of keeping the Jewish people distinct from…

  By David Klinghoffer Dec 24, 2004 | 3 min read
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  The Case of Jacob Goldberg v. Father Christmas

  Plaintiff’s Attorney: Sir, it says here that you deliver toys to ALL the good boys and girls. Is that correct? Claus: Yes, but it’s not like it’s a contract. It’s just… Plaintiff’s Attorney: It does use the word “ALL” doesn’t it? Claus: Yes, it does. Plaintiff’s Attorney: In fact, you don’t actually deliver toys to…

  By Adam Grace Dec 24, 2004 | 3 min read
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  A Tale Of Two Americas

  I recently went searching for my grandmother’s long-forgotten gravesite. I left my home in Los Angeles for the heartland of Ohio, where I had grown up and where she was buried. After bureaucratic runarounds, I was finally directed to an overgrown cemetery. I found my grandmother’s gravesite but, like all the surrounding sites, it had…

  By Cookie Lommel Dec 24, 2004 | 3 min read
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  Is Assimilation All That Bad?

  In 1928, Louis Wirth published “The Ghetto,” a book whose title pointed to the importance of tangible corporate boundaries in the lives of Jews in Chicago. By the century’s end, the markers of identity had shifted from the physical and geographic expressions of social distance between Jews and “America” to a more inward, individual calculus…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Dec 17, 2004 | 3 min read