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Opinion Why Stop at the Big Gulp?
When it comes to traditional food, Jews know only one portion size: large. Have you ever seen a small bowl of chicken soup? A mini-matzo ball? A seder table that wasn’t groaning with extra dishes? Like the cultures of others who have known periods of deprivation, Jews tend to associate good with plenty. The proverbial…
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Opinion The Brothers’ Crusade
June 21, 1964, Father’s Day. Stephen Schwerner was in Provincetown, Mass., on vacation with his wife. Ben Chaney was at a meeting at his church in Meridian, Miss. David Goodman was a teenager with a summer job, living in his family’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Their lives were about to change forever because…
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Opinion Bloody Syria
What is to be done about Syria? The Houla Massacre, as it has become known, has pushed the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime into new territory. On May 25, 108 civilians were killed in a village on the outskirts of Homs. Nearly 50 of them were children. And according to the United Nations Human Rights…
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Opinion Crowd Sourcing Charity
Mazel tov to Congregation Beth Elohim, the hip Brooklyn synagogue that likes to call itself “the little congregation that could.” After the ceiling in its century-old building collapsed in 2009, CBE has been scrambling for funds to make repairs, especially to its 400-square-feet of stained-glass windows. Now, salvation is around the corner, thanks to a…
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Opinion The Victim’s Voice
Last year, the Berkeley Media Studies Group analyzed news coverage of child sexual abuse and concluded that one reason such abuse is underreported and misunderstood is that the media employs vague and inconsistent language in its stories. “Such imprecise language limits the public’s understanding of the issue and disguises its severity,” said the authors, who…
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Opinion The Marriage Plot
When President Obama declared his personal support for same-sex marriage — an announcement whose timing was politically motivated but was historically dramatic nonetheless — he galvanized somewhat more than half the American public, and displeased the rest. Those against allowing two men or two women to legally wed say they are concerned that broadening the…
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Opinion The Communal Cost of ‘Free’
The first ever New York ELI talks, the Jewish version of the now famous TED talks, debuted on May 14 with a provocative and inspired monologue by David Bryfman. Australian born, casually dressed, he took to the stage before a hundred or so invited guests to challenge the conventional wisdom that the best things in…
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Opinion If It’s Okay for Mofaz…
The dramatic announcement that Israel was going to have a new unity government instead of national elections scrambled the political calculus in the Knesset, left a shrunken opposition rudderless, and proved once again that Benjamin Netanyahu is one heck of a politician. It has also opened up opportunities for American Jewish dialogue on Israel. How…
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