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You Can't Put a Price Tag on Family Memories

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Lori Samlin Miller, JE Feature

Driving out of Wynnefield to escape the summer heat, we found ourselves cruising down the Black Horse Pike, heading toward Atlantic City. In the 1960s of my youth, both of these towns were enclaves for Jewish immigrants of Eastern European descent. Back then, Atlantic City -- with its beach and boardwalk -- teemed with year-round and vacationing Jews, but only...

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It's Time to Address the Problem of Undue Religious Control

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Eric Yoffie

Who won the latest round of the conversion wars? No one. In these wars, everybody loses. To be sure, a broad-based coalition of American Jews -- anchored by the federation system, and the Reform and Conservative movements -- succeeded in convincing Israel's leaders to delay a vote on a controversial new conversion bill in the Knesset. This was a monumental...

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What Do We Want for Israel, Now and in the Future?

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Robert S. Wistrich

This year, Tisha B'Av once again reminded us of the dangers of "gratuitous hatred" without rhyme or reason for one's fellow Jews; the kind of hatred for its own sake, which seems more recently to have become part of our everyday Israeli reality. While divisions between Orthodox and secular Jews, or the bitter antagonism toward settlers in the West Bank,...

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Letters Week of July 29, 2010

Despite Budget Woes, Group Has Lots to Give I would like to react to the July 15 cover story, "Finding the Feasible Path to Inclusion." As board chair of InterFaithways, I believe that we should not be discouraged regarding recent allocations developments -- our cause is right, at the right time! I plan to fight to continue and grow InterFaithways...

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Feeling All Walled In

When a member of the Israeli Knesset tried to ram through legislation on conversion that would delegitimize non-Orthodox Jews, American Jewry rightly responded with a chorus of protest. Now that a woman has been arrested for carrying a Torah at the Western Wall, U.S. Jewry should respond with similar outrage. Both issues -- dubbed "Who is a Jew" and "Women...