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  Endowing Day Schools

  In his op-ed, Rabbi Ari Segal portrays the quandary that most Jewish day schools, and especially Jewish high schools, find themselves in today in regard to their middle-income families (“The 1% Solution,” January 2). Tuition increases have well exceeded rises in wages, cost of living has increased greatly and middle-income families with multiple children in…

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  Men Pushing Baby Strollers? Only Goys Do That!

  Now that Hasidic men are barred from pushing strollers, will they turn to other modes of baby transportation? / Illustration by Anya Ulinich Baseball. Men’s briefs. Dogs. Hipster eyeglasses. Motorcycles. Neckties. English. Math. Men’s shoes any color besides black. Button-down shirts that flap left-over-right. Fixing your own car. Modern Hebrew. That’s a partial list of…

  By Shulem Deen Jan 20, 2015 | 3 min read
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  What’s Behind Mystery ‘Suicide’ of Argentina Prosecutor in Terror Probe?

  It’s undoubtedly just coincidence. Then again, once you enter the shadowy world of international skullduggery, few things are coincidence and nothing is what it seems. So let’s just look at the known facts in these two simultaneously unfolding stories and see if we can’t spot any points of intersection. It’s probably all just coincidence. Consider…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 20, 2015 | 5 min read

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  The Southern Jews Who Helped King

  The national release of the film “Selma” during the week leading up to Martin Luther King Day, has led to a national moment of heshbon hanefesh (soul searching) over the dramatic series of events during the first three months of 1965 in which indelible images of brutal police violence against peaceful marchers convened by Dr….

  By Marc Schneier Jan 19, 2015 | 4 min read
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  Don’t Compare Ferguson and ‘Palestine’

  (JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a long history of using legitimate American social justice issues…

  By Ken Jacobson Jan 19, 2015 | 3 min read
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  On MLK Day, Recalling My Brush With KKK

  David Sookne, front left, and Bruce Hartford, third from right, register voters in 1965 / Courtesy (JTA) — Since the nationwide release of “Selma” a week before the national holiday commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., I have wondered about the extent of Jewish participation in the civil rights movement. Was it just the Selma…

  By Edmon J. Rodman Jan 19, 2015 | 4 min read
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  Europe’s Jews and Muslims Need a Strong Left — Now More Than Ever

  It’s not easy to be a Jew or Muslim in Europe these days. French Jews are still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo and kosher grocery store attack, with their Muslim counterparts facing a spate of hate crimes aimed at them and an expected surge of support for the anti-Islamic (and historically anti-Jewish) National Front, now…

  By Ari Paul and Michael Brooks Jan 19, 2015 | 3 min read
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  Labor Tops Likud in Polls, But Coalition Still Elusive

  With two months to go before Israelis go to the polls, the Labor Party opened a statistically significant lead over Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud for the first time since its mid-December alliance with Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah. Of six polls released last Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16, one — also the largest poll, with 830…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 19, 2015 | 6 min read
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  What Selma Meant to Jews Like My Father

  Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, right, marches with Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders / Getty Images (JTA) — The 50th anniversary of the 1965 march at Selma is being commemorated this year with the release of the film “Selma.” Regrettably, the film represents the march as many see it today, only as an…

  By Susannah Heschel Jan 18, 2015 | 4 min read
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  The Real Problem With Miss Israel’s Lebanese Selfie

  Life sure is hard when you’re a contestant at the Miss Universe pageant. In addition to wowing the judges with your swimsuit, your evening gown and your talent, you also have to be constantly on the lookout for quick-footed, iPhone-toting Israeli beauty queens who are dead-set on squeezing themselves into a selfie with you. Or…

  By Sigal Samuel Jan 18, 2015 | 3 min read
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  Where’s the Moral Clarity of #JeSuisCharlie When Free Speech Isn’t Safe?

  After any great tragedy, especially if it involves a sensational crime, people invariably set to work. Societies erect symbolic monuments of affinity and empathy. Narratives are constructed to make sense of the cataclysm. A sense of order is restored through theatrical displays of civic unity and common purpose. And the collective hunt is on for…

  By Hussein Ibish Jan 16, 2015 | 4 min read