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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Jews and Christians Must Persevere in Lifting Their Voices in Dialogue

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Philip A. Cunningham

A few weeks ago, at its annual meeting in Berlin, the International Council of Christians and Jews issued a major assessment of the present state of Christian-Jewish relations. Titled "A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Jews and Christians," the statement reviews the long, ambivalent history between both faith communities, commends the positive developments of the last six...

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What High-Schoolers Should Know About 9/11 -- and Why

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Alan Luxenberg

On Sept. 11, 2001, today's high school students were ages 6 to 9 -- far too young to understand the momentous events that took place that day. In a few years, however, these youngsters will be able to vote or join the army. What do they really need to know now about 9/11 -- and why? The latter question --...

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A Threat to Us All

Most days, Iran is never far from the front pages, either in mainstream newspapers or Jewish ones. And now that September has rolled around -- marking the start of the High Holiday period and the deadline that President Obama set for himself to reassess his stance toward this fearsome Middle East nation -- the need to deal with the Iranian...

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Isn't It Rich?

It's been almost a year now since the crash, and people are still accounting for their losses. Be it a mortgage collapse, a lay-off or a fizzled 401(k), the collective sighs remain audible. Soon after came the Bernard Madoff scandal, which did what Jews fear so much: It tied our ethnicity to money -- bad money. Is there a positive...

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Letters Week of Sept. 10, 2009

Where Do We Find God? It's Not in Destruction! While it's true, as one of my colleagues has pointed out in the Jewish Exponent , that throughout the ages, prophets, philosophers and mystics have wondered where God might be found, the answer, I don't think, is in the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem, and certainly not in the...

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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

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