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  1,000 Days

  It was 1,000 days ago this week, on September 28, 2000, that Palestinian rioting first broke out in Jerusalem, setting off a cycle of murderous violence that hasn’t stopped yet. While the rioting was at first a momentary event — described by Palestinians as a reaction to Ariel Sharon’s Temple Mount visit that day, though…

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  Higher Education’s ‘Iron Law of Admissions’

  All the talk surrounding this week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan’s law school has ignored one fact of higher education: White students with low grades also get in. The focus on racial preferences usually obscures the many elite preferences for upper class supporters of higher education. Obeying the “Iron…

  By Ari Melber Jun 27, 2003 | 4 min read
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  An International Union Against Antisemitism in Europe

  I was born in 1949 in the war-ravaged eastern German city of Dresden. My hometown, like relations among Europeans, had been reduced to rubble by the horror of World War II. Two generations later, the European Union is building on its past to develop an effective model of integration. The seeds of European partnership, planted…

  By Beate Winkler Jun 27, 2003 | 4 min read

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• Dan Perry Netanyahu’s new Gaza plan is a disaster. But it contains a tiny kernel of wisdom

  

• Emily Tamkin Entering motherhood — and an obsession with the works of an Italian Jewish literary hero

  

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  Bush’s Tax-Cut Policy Is a Bad Investment

  What exactly is the Bush administration trying to accomplish with its economic policy? The answer least likely to be correct is the one implied by the name of the recently passed tax-cutting bill, “Jobs and Growth Act.” The phrase suggests that the bill aims to stimulate economic demand, thereby boosting growth and, especially, employment from…

  By Jeffrey Frankel Jun 27, 2003 | 5 min read
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  Mideast Q&(No)A

  To what question is “helicopter gunships” the answer? It is virtually impossible to disengage the emotions while the carnage continues. One need not join or even sympathize with last week’s Jerusalem crowd shouting “Death to the Arabs!” as they viewed the bombed-out bus to feel disgust toward the Palestinians and utter cynicism toward the peace…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 20, 2003 | 4 min read
• Letters

  June 20, 2003

  Judge Chabad Outreach Efforts by their Results In his June 6 review of Sue Fishkoff’s book “The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch,” Joseph Berger writes that, “Fishkoff is too uncritical and at times a bit too differential, and I would have preferred more of an ironic appreciation of the distance between Lubavitch statements…

  Jun 20, 2003 | 5 min read
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  Tides Along the Hudson

  That new Jewish demographic study released in New York this week examined only the Jews of metropolitan New York. Folks in other communities might be tempted, therefore, to think that the survey’s astonishing findings — including skyrocketing poverty and a surging Orthodox population — are none of their business. But that would be a big…

  Jun 20, 2003 | 4 min read
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  The Stuff Stump Speeches Are Made Of

  I’m standing with my son Sam outside of Bookends, our local bookstore, on Main St. in Warner, N.H. A man on a mission, my book “Tax Pollution, Not Income” under my arm. We’re waiting for former Vermont governor Howard Dean. The candidate is late. The rain’s just stopped, and it’s almost sunny. The place is…

  By Roy Morrison Jun 20, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Britain’s Institutional Judeophobia

  For Britons who have been following the controversy surrounding the recent publication of a particularly nasty political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune, there has been a distinct sense of déjà vu. As press reports have it, the paper became — unwittingly, it claims — the vehicle for an antisemitic canard. That, at least, is how…

  By Barry Kosmin and Paul Iganski Jun 20, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Letter to a Young Venture Philanthropist

  Judging from the explosion in popularity of “venture philanthropy” initiatives in local communities, one would be excused for thinking we are in the midst of a renaissance of sorts. In federation after federation, these new groups are beginning with great fanfare and proceeding, or ending, with decidedly mixed results. One thing is certain, though: They…

  By Mark Charendoff Jun 20, 2003 | 3 min read
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  (Orthodo)X-Men, On Screen and Off

  In our May 23 issue, Ami Eden argued that the opposing forces in the blockbuster film, “X2: X-Men United,” could be interpreted as metaphor for two radical theological responses to the Holocaust — one belonging to Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, the other to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. The good-guy mutants, Eden noted, are led…

  By Irving Greenberg Jun 13, 2003 | 6 min read