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  What is the Jewish State to the Children of Israel?

  Recently I was asked to give a talk to my Reform synagogue’s bar and bat Mitzvah class. My Brooklyn neighborhood of brownstones and apartment buildings, nestled on the edge of Prospect Park, is a liberal, gentrified enclave, with a handful of Conservative and Reform synagogues within a several block radius. My synagogue has more than…

  By Jo-Ann Mort

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  Hunger for Healing on a Visit to Haiti

  It starts with a song. Soft at first, then louder, like slow-rolling thunder, gentle harmonies that keep time with the clapping of hands. Soon there will be time for serious talk — of politics, hard labor and the struggle to find food — but for now there is only the music. Every Haitian man, woman…

  By H. Eric Schockman Apr 25, 2003 | 3 min read
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  The Cost of Winning Peace in Iraq

  For all the talk about whether the United States should cede some control of rebuilding Iraq to the United Nations — which, out of self-interest, it probably should — peace will be extremely difficult to win without a serious economic commitment by the Bush administration. The recent experience in Afghanistan is a good reference point…

  By Lee Feinstein Apr 25, 2003 | 3 min read

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  How Soloveitchik Saw Interreligious Dialogue

  In September 2000, a Baltimore-based institute for interfaith dialogue issued a statement titled “Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity.” The statement enumerated a series of theological beliefs shared by Jews and Christians, and insisted that such a statement was essential given the dramatic change during the last four decades in Christian attitudes…

  By Meir Soloveichik Apr 25, 2003 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 18, 2003

  Mideast Assyrians Are Aramaic’s Only Hope Your article about the pro-American troop rally in Chicago (“Iraq War Pushes Little-Known Assyrians to Fore,” April 4) showed once again that as the Jewish community becomes more educated to the situation of medieval and contemporary Assyrians, it will be less subject to the biases and myths that many…

  Apr 18, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Wrapping Justice in the American Flag

  Every modern war has its defining picture — the iconic image that stands for future generations as the summation of what the war was about. For World War II, it was the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima; for Vietnam, the naked girl fleeing a napalm attack; for the Six-Day War, the tousle-haired soldier…

  By Kathleen Peratis Apr 18, 2003 | 5 min read
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  Damascus and World War

  The sudden war of words that has erupted between Washington and Damascus in recent days is a sobering reminder of how perilously unpredictable this new world is that we’re living in, and how vast a task our government has taken on as it seeks to confront the perils head-on. The president and his aides have…

  Apr 18, 2003 | 3 min read
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  Mapping the Genes

  This past Monday, April 14, a group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health in Washington announced the completion of one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken, the mapping of the human genetic code. The announcement came 50 years almost to the day after the structure of DNA was first described in…

  Apr 18, 2003 | 2 min read
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  Polish Chief Is Iraq War’s Surprise Winner

  The second Gulf war is not yet finished, but the Polish president, Alexander Kwasniewski, is already one of its winners. He has emerged alongside British Prime Minister Tony Blair as the European leader most visible in the military campaign. Poland’s place on the battlefield gave it new stature as a staunch ally of the United…

  By Maurizio Molinari Apr 18, 2003 | 3 min read
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  No, War’s Opponents Need Not Apologize

  What shall those of us who opposed the war now say and do, save mumble that it’s not yet quite over and that real peace and democracy are still iffy propositions? For the most part, the victory has been swift, comprehensive and without the tens of thousands of civilian Iraqi casualties that some of us…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 18, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Britain’s Disingenuous Iraq-Israel Linkage

  In announcing his resignation from the post of British foreign secretary out of opposition to the war with Iraq, Robin Cook said: “I have heard it said Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to complete disarmament, and that our patience is exhausted. Yet, it is more than 30 years since Resolution…

  By Abraham Foxman Apr 11, 2003 | 3 min read