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Making My Son’s Vision a Reality

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Seeing the Importance of Israel Through College-Bound Eyes

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It's easy to be skeptical about members of Congress being able to reach a quick consensus on a plan to overhaul our nation's health care system. But do it they must. The organized Jewish community is nearly unanimous about the need to change the system -- both for moral and parochial reasons. Morally, it is abhorrent that millions of Americans...

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Service Learning and Future Leaders: A Perfect Union

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Jeffrey A. Barrack

During the decade following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many educational proposals made their way through the new Union. These proposals sought the cultivation of active citizens through the "diffusion of knowledge and power." Thomas Jefferson's 1778 "Bill for the more General Diffusion of Knowledge" contemplated schools as uniquely qualified to delegate power and knowledge because of the...

Editorials

The Bounties of Camp

The start of the Jewish camping season may have been a bit shaky this year with the swine-flu epidemic forcing some camps across the country to cancel sessions or delay their openings. Camps in our area rightly leapt into prevention mode, taking extra precautions as the campers departed, determined not to let some virus detract from the blessings that a...

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Eyes Focused on Iran

The images emerging from post-election Iran are both terrifying and encouraging. Terrifying because of the brutality being inflicted upon citizens protesting what most likely was a fixed election. Encouraging because they demonstrate to the world the broad swath of people who are fed up with the repressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the hard-line clerics. Even with the press restrictions,...

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Bring Shalit Home

It's been three years now since Hamas captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid. It is long past time for him to return home. Presumably being held in Gaza, the young man's condition remains unknown as his family campaigns relentlessly for his release. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged this week to take personal responsibility for his release,...