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Opinion What We Learn From the Salary Survey
So why do we do this, anyhow? Why, for six years in a row now, does the Forward go through the immense trouble of sifting through reams of public documents and then making hundreds of calls to verify basic public information about Jewish charities? And what have we learned? When we started the salary survey…
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Opinion Be Fruitful and Multiply — Please?
Thanksgiving was lovely this year, a happy gathering of four generations of family. We are a warm and compatible group who genuinely enjoy each other’s company and — not to sound too corny here — acknowledge the blessing of just being together. There is a sturdiness to this side of my family that I treasure….
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Opinion A Jewish State for Whom?
Of course, Israel is a Jewish state, as in a state with a Jewish majority, a Jewish flag, a Jewish official calendar, a Jewish military, a Jewish national airline, a Jewish sensibility, etc., etc. It is the only country on the planet that can make those claims. That is the whole point of its existence:…
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Opinion Lesson from Ferguson
Since last summer, there has been so much written about the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri and the inability of our legal system to bring this case to justice that it’s almost foolhardy to think we can add substantially to the conversation. So we will contribute just a small thought. Our…
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Opinion Why Terror Is Different This Time
Somehow a line has been crossed. The November 18 attack inside a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem feels different, cuts deeper, frightens me more and even angers me more. It is because it was an attack on Jews. In prayer. Please don’t misunderstand. I’m not diminishing the pain and injustice caused by…
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Opinion An Inexcusable Act of Terror in Jerusalem
There can be no equivocation in condemning today’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem and expressing pure sympathy for the victims, their families and their community. There can be no caveats, no excuses. This brazen slaughter of men at prayer serves no legitimate political purpose other than to dangerously escalate tensions between two people who clearly have…
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Books Is Exile Good for the Jews?
The political scientist Alan Wolfe published his latest book about the Jewish diaspora, “At Home in Exile,” in late October, just weeks before Sheldon Adelson uttered his most recent outrageous remarks. Too bad. Adelson’s unfortunate rant would have provided another example to prove Wolfe’s point. Adelson, the zillionaire philanthropist and businessman, is not known for…
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Opinion Divesting From Immorality
Could it get any more catastrophic? The latest report on global warming from the United Nations, released on November 3, describes a vision of the future that should make us snap to attention: massive food shortages leading to widespread hunger, refugee crises, the flooding of major cities and entire island nations, mass extinction of plants…
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