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  How To Make Yeshiva Day School Tuition Affordable

  The American Orthodox Jewish community has enjoyed decades of freedom, strength, growth and self-confidence unprecedented in the history of the Diaspora. We are the freest Jews in virtually every respect in at least the last 2,500 years. There is a lot to celebrate, starting with the quality and availability of Jewish education. The number of…

  By Shalom Lamm

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  ‘Road Map’ to Peace …

  In recent days, groups of pro-Israel activists have begun voicing alarm, mostly in private, over the prospect that the “road map,” the plan backed by the Bush administration for addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is nearing implementation. This alarm, if translated into active efforts to delay or derail the road map, would be misguided and ultimately…

  By Marvin Lender Apr 4, 2003 | 4 min read
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  ‘Road Map’ to Peace …

  I am a confirmed Israeli liberal. I believe there should be a Palestinian state on virtually all the land occupied by Israel since 1967. I feel strongly that the vast majority of the settlements should be dismantled. Doubtful that the Palestinians and us are capable, on our own accord, of reaching a peace agreement, I…

  By David Forman Apr 4, 2003 | 4 min read

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  Shame on Envious Anti-Americanism

  ‘Aman,” the Talmud teaches us, “envies everyone but his son and his student.” In all the talk surrounding the war in Iraq, the pervasiveness of envy and a related emotion, shame, has gotten far less attention than it deserves. We may wish to think that leaders and nations are driven by visions of the future,…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 4, 2003 | 3 min read
• Letters

  April 4, 2003

  Technion Taps Women’s Leadership Potential There are at least six and very likely several more than the five organizations with women at the helm mentioned by opinion writer Shifra Bronznick in her analysis of women’s advancement in American Jewish organizations (“Unleashing Women’s Leadership Potential,” March 21). The American Technion Society, the leading American organization raising…

  Apr 4, 2003 | 5 min read
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  How To Rule But Not Lead

  As nearly as I can recall, the last war-related protest in which I participated — in fact, helped organize — was a protest in favor of American intervention in Bosnia. The year was 1993, just a decade ago. Europe then as now was passive, unwilling to put an end to the carnage. And so were…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 28, 2003 | 4 min read
• Letters

  March 28, 2003

  Bush, Not Doves, Has Betrayed ‘Our Side’ I disagree with the notion that there are, when push comes to shove, only two sides to the current conflict between the United States and Iraq, and that “George Bush is leading our side” (“Our Side,” March 21). I deplore the policies of Saddam Hussein. However, I do…

  Mar 28, 2003 | 5 min read
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  The New Powell Doctrine

  Regardless of how the war with Iraq unfolds, the six-month American dalliance with the United Nations over the future of Saddam Hussein represents one of this country’s main post-Cold War diplomatic defeats. What makes this disaster even more aggravating is that the wounds were self-inflicted and avoidable. Future historians will blame this fumbling exercise in…

  By Ron Rubin Mar 28, 2003 | 4 min read
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  The Bush Administration’s Suffocating Secrecy

  Even as the war in Iraq unfolded, President Bush signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a new policy on national security secrecy. The new secrecy policy had been awaited with anticipation, or dread, because it redefines what government information will be made available to the public and what will be withheld. The new Bush policy…

  By Steven Aftergood Mar 28, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Europe’s Blind Antisemitism…

  In the Belgian capital of Brussels, as in most other parts of Western Europe, very few people carry guns. But everyone has a finger to point. The power of this observation was made especially clear to me one Saturday morning last fall as I walked several of my host family’s children to synagogue. It was…

  By Lauren Gottlieb Mar 28, 2003 | 3 min read
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  … Perceives All Jews as Representatives of Israel

  In the minds of many here in Greece and across Europe, the State of Israel was and is considered the state of the Jews. The Greek public does not clearly distinguish between Israelis and Jews, and even government officials often refer to all Israelis as Jews in their speeches, although not maliciously. There are Greeks…

  By Moses Constantinis Mar 28, 2003 | 3 min read