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  Getting to Egalitarian

  A cantor at a Conservative synagogue, Congregation Beth El in Vorhees, N.J., is featured in this video, put up by the professional organization Cantors Assembly. It’s a lovely portrayal of female cantor Alisa Pomerantz-Boro, who works at at what had been a non-egalitarian shul. The video shows how she has changed the hearts and minds…

  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

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• Letters

  Halachists Need To Catch Up With Science

  Organ donation for the saving of a life or for the restoration of some major biological function seems to me to be quite a humanitarian and moral gesture (“Case for Organ Donation Remains Solid,” February 11). Halachists continue to consult learned scholars of ancient texts for answers. In keeping with the medical realities of 21st-century…

  Mar 3, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Portrayal of Scholars’ Group Is Misleading

  Your February 25 article, “Top Genocide Scholars Battle Over How To Characterize Israel’s Actions,” refers to the establishment of the International Network of Genocide Scholars as a “rival” organization to International Association of Genocide Scholars that in 2005 “broke away” from the latter. This is misleading. There was never a “split” from IAGS, as INoGS…

  Mar 2, 2011 | 3 min read

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  Dear Congresswoman

  This is addressed to the Republican members of the House of Representatives who are women. It’s not a large group — 24 to be exact — representing less than a third of all women in the House, and just shy of 10% of the GOP caucus. But they could potentially provide the decisive votes to…

  Mar 2, 2011 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Talking Trash

  There they go again. John Galliano. Charlie Sheen. And now maybe Julian Assange. The list is so obvious it needs no explanation, thanks to the saturated media coverage awarded these foul-mouthed celebrities. If there’s anything salutory about this parade of stories, it’s the rapid, direct way bad behavior is confronted. Sheen lost his lucrative television…

  Mar 2, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Hey J Street, Is There a Realist in the House?

  Wandering the halls of J Street’s second national conference, you couldn’t fail to be impressed at the strides the dovish Jewish lobbying organization has made in its first three years of existence. It’s grown from a germ of an idea into a national organization with chapters in nearly every city with a significant Jewish community….

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 2, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Why Labor Issues Are Jewish Issues

  There are moments when I envy America’s Roman Catholic Church. I felt that way back in 1983 when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a remarkable pastoral letter on war and peace, and again in 1986 with the USCCB’s “Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy.” These are authoritative documents, bold…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 2, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  Reimagining the Museum at Auschwitz

  The number of visitors to Auschwitz is growing by the year, even as the memory of the events that transpired there grows increasingly distant. These are among the reasons that the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has decided to revamp its exhibitions for the 21st century. The museum’s decision is a wise one. The tools available to…

  By Michael Berenbaum Mar 2, 2011 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  A Military That Is Ours, but Not of Us

  For Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe in the years before World War I, one of the many motivations to leave was the prospect of service in the Czar’s army, which often amounted to a death sentence. Only a generation later, people in uniform exterminated most of the Jews who had remained behind. It should…

  By Jack H. Jacobs Mar 2, 2011 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Watch Jon Stewart, See the Jordanian Ambassador Make Seriously Funny

  If you missed the Jordanian ambassador to the United States on Jon Stewart tonight (Tuesday) be sure to catch it tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2 or 7 p.m. on Comedy Central or on the Web. Simply speaking, the ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra’ad, is a hoot. For a prince and ambassador, at least. Here’s how they started:…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 2, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Opinion

  What the Civil War Meant for American Jews

  The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is upon us. April 12 is the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, the war’s opening shot. From then, through the sesquicentennial anniversary on April 9, 2015 of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House and five days later of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, every major event…

  By Jonathan D. Sarna Mar 1, 2011 | 3 min read