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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Gift That Keeps Giving; Time to Free Pollard

Gift That Keeps Giving If you haven't yet signed your child up for Jewish overnight camp, now's the time to act. If all the hype about the importance of this Jewish experience hasn't convinced you, there's fresh evidence confirming what we've known anecdotally for decades: there's a clear link between Jewish camping and lifelong Jewish engagement. A new study sponsored...

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An App to Unwind

The convergence this weekend of "Shabbat Across America" and the "National Day of Unplugging" has got to be more than just a coincidence. Either way, the programs bring the promise of a sorely needed respite from our crazy busy lives, made all the crazier in recent weeks by the seismic rumblings of world events. It's hard not to be obsessed...

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Turn All Eyes on the Middle East -- the Entire Middle East

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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

The rapid changes in the Middle East are leading many in the American Jewish community to suffer from "analysis paralysis." We have become so mesmerized by events in Egypt and Libya that we have stopped doing vital work to advance U.S. interests and stability in the Middle East, as well as Israel's security. It is critical that we refocus our...

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Israel: Coming to Terms With the Broken and the Unbroken

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Harold Messinger

Two weeks ago in Parshah Ki Tisa, Moshe comes down the mountain after receiving the word of God, whereupon seeing the Israelites dancing around the golden calf, he smashes the Ten Commandments. Later, he will receive a new set, and place the broken shards of the first one with the unbroken and "perfect" set in the Kodseh HaKodashim ("the Holy...

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Letters the Week of March 3, 2011

What's the Message When You Use Such Language? Given that Jewish leaders as diverse as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Reform movement's Rabbi Eric Yoffie agree that Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem that lie across the Israel-Jordan 1949 cease-fire lines are not settlements, the Jewish Exponent should not have run a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article in the Feb. 24 issue,...

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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Gift That Keeps Giving; Time to Free Pollard

An App to Unwind

Turn All Eyes on the Middle East -- the Entire Middle East

Israel: Coming to Terms With the Broken and the Unbroken

Letters the Week of March 3, 2011

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