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Much on the Line as Sides Feel Out Mideast Peace Process

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Douglas Bloomfield

Hillary Rodham Clinton's rescue mission over the weekend to breathe life into the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process was either a failure or a success, depending on who's telling the story. The secretary of state made a quick stop in Abu Dhabi on Saturday to press Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to drop his demand for a total settlement construction freeze and...

Editorials

Don't Let Bill Languish

Let's hope that the U.S. Congress musters the votes for Iran sanctions legislation quicker than it was able to push through expanded hate-crimes legislation. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that passed the U.S. Senate last week was 10 years in the making. Long a top priority of Jewish communal organizations and hailed by such...

Kvetch 'N Kvell

Letters Week of Oct. 29, 2009

Perelman's Participation: It's Missing From Story Several weeks ago, the Jewish Exponent ran an "in-depth" article about the i-Center experience (Nation & World: "To Teach Effectively About Israel, Talk About Everything but 'Israel,' " Oct. 1). The Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School sent five teachers and a rabbi to this amazing kallah. As a general-studies teacher, I was...

Columns

An Agenda That Will Suit All, This Election Year and Beyond

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Howie Beigelman

It's an "off year" in the political calendar, with just three races of any import in the entire country -- all in locales with sizable Jewish populations. Statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as New York's City Hall, are up for grabs. New York, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is fighting for a third term in office, not only...

Columns

What You Need to Know About the U.S. Health Reform-Debate

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Sammie Moshenberg

You might say that we are "erev" health-care-reform consideration -- on the threshold of action by the House and Senate on much-anticipated, much-debated and much-misunderstood legislation that promises to tackle and fix some of our most intransigent problems with health coverage. Still, even at this advanced stage in the legislative process, myths about the pending proposals persist. Let's take a...