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What Do Doctors Really Think About 30 Hour Shifts?
After 30 years of progressively tighter restrictions on work hours for medical interns, the first-year trainees who do much of the hands-on work with patients, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), has announced a policy change. As of July, it will permit 28-hour shifts: 24 hours of patient care and four hours for…
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Opinion Letter To The Editor: Why JVP Invited Rasmea Odeh To Speak
Next week, Jewish Voice for Peace will host our bi-annual national membership meeting in Chicago, bringing together nearly 1000 of our leaders and partners for critical conversations about resisting the harmful policies of the Trump administration and the Israeli government. Coverage in The Forward and other Jewish press has focused on the invitation to Rasmea…
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Opinion Following The JCC Arrest, Can We Be Smarter About Anti-Semitism?
There’s not much we know about the 19-year-old Jewish Israeli-American who is allegedly responsible for the bomb threats phoned into more than 100 JCCs in the last month. But that hasn’t stopped opportunists from rushing in with simplistic opinions. For example, hard-rightist Mort Klein, who leads a small organization heavily funded by a few Jewish…
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Opinion A Jew Made The JCC Bomb Threats? This Is What Heartbreak Feels Like
When the child care center at our JCC in Rochester, New York, received a bomb threat on March 7, I wrote a piece for USA Today chronicling my fear, helplessness and anger that someone would target children. But now I also feel sick upon learning that the suspect arrested for allegedly making these threats is…
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Opinion Who You Callin’ Anti-Semite? Reserve The Term For The Worst Offenders
We’ve been playing this game for months now. First with Michael Flynn. Then with Stephen Bannon. Now with Sebastian Gorka. Liberals accuse a Donald Trump adviser of having ties to right-wing anti-Semites. Trump’s Jewish supporters defend him. And, not content to stop there, they throw the charge back in the accusers’ faces — claiming that…
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Opinion State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing?
Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has often been characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the past two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: The former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…
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Opinion State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing
Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has been often characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the last two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: the former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…
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Opinion Sebastian Gorka, Uphold Your Oath To The American People
For several weeks, the Forward has published a series of articles about Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, chief adviser on counter-terrorism, and member of the administration’s newly formed Strategic Initiatives Group. The articles reported that Gorka had close ties to far-right politicians in Hungary and that the leaders of a group on the…
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Opinion Fighting Animal Cruelty Now May Be Like Battling Segregation Yesterday
“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves,” writes Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in his book “Practical Ethics.” “It is more difficult,” he continues, “to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.” Indeed, when it comes…
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Opinion New Posters From The Ministry Of Alternative Facts
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Opinion After Comey’s Bombshell, Will Republicans Finally Act Like Americans?
There was a certain ironic justice in FBI Director James Comey’s sensational testimony March 20 before the House Intelligence Committee. Comey testified that the bureau is investigating “whether there was any coordination” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in last year’s election.” In other words, the FBI believes it…
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