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Angelina and Me — and Maybe You: Choose Life!

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Day Schools Should Foster Collaboration With Israel

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There's good reason why Passover is the most widely celebrated holiday among Jews. Once we get beyond the obsessive cleaning, cooking and prepping, it's a joyous time for families and friends to come together to mark a momentous chapter in Jewish history. What's not to love? The seder is rich with symbolism, full of drama and inevitably involves a great...

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Healing the Rifts

It's time to end the very public spat that is tearing at Israeli-U.S. relations. It serves neither country and threatens to derail long-term mutual interests in the Middle East. The alarm bells are ringing in nearly every corner of the American Jewish community as the situation has escalated to crisis mode. The Obama administration was justifiably enraged by the ill-timed...

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Letters week of March 18, 2010

Illustration's Misleading, Maybe Even Anti-Semitic You published an anti- Semitic graphic on the front page of the March 11 issue (Cover story: "Pinpointing Israel on Campus"). It resembles cartoons printed in the Lustige Blätter, a weekly German humor magazine published during the Nazi era. This depiction of the Magen David as Israeli fighter jets encompassing a blue-and-white globe recalls the...

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Don't Bet on the Fact That Jews Support Casinos in Town

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Carole Le Faivre-Rochester

Mention the word "casino" in my neighborhood -- Society Hill -- and you'll get strong opinions on many sides of the gambling issue. Many people living in the waterfront neighborhoods of Pennsport, Queen Village and Society Hill do not want their quality of life to deteriorate with the influx of the gambling population, nor do they want our already overcrowded...

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Stepping Back From the Brink After Biden's Israel Contretemps

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Abraham H. Foxman

On some level, it couldn't have been worse. We have a situation where the most trusted member of the U.S. administration -- Vice President Joe Biden -- is in Israel, seeking to win over the hearts and minds of the Israeli public, which, according to the polls, is highly suspicious of the Barack Obama government. In his opening public remarks,...