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STAKES GAMBLE
By David Saperstein
The fence is a high-stakes gamble, offering both enormous promise
and risk. On the one hand, it offers the promise of both...
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BARRIERS:
The Lessons of History
By Dewey
Browder
Ever since the
beginning of civilization, men have built barriers to keep their
enemies out. The first towns relied on walls for protection, and
as...
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SAVING
LIVES
By Daniel Taub
The suicide bomber who blew up the number 14 bus in Jerusalem yesterday
[February 22, 2004], murdering 8 people, and wounding...
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BACK
IN
THE GHETTO
By Sarah Ozacky-Lazar
I'll spill it right away: I oppose the erection of a wall in
the heart of my country and so close to my home. I reject its high
cost, and I detest...
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DEPENDENT
NO MORE
By Dan Schueftan
Israel's fence is vital, and inevitable. It is vital because Israel
needs to cut itself off--not only from Palestinian terrorism, which
has devastated...
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ABSURDITY,
NOT SECURITY
By Meir Pa'il
The construction of an approximately 400-mile security barrier
between the "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria) and the State
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SIGN
By Yehoyada
Amir
Given our reality, building a security fence between Israel and the
Palestinians is tactically necessary. And we Israelis are not alone.
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EYES:
How Jews
Transformed Photography
By Rose
Eichenbaum
Among the visionary
pioneers of photography, many were Jewish. In striving for tikkun
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By Lynne Landsberg
In the aftermath
of a traumatic brain injury, a community of faith gave me the strength
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THE
PRESENT
PARENT
An
interview with clinical psychologist Dr. Wendy Mogel about what
children want most from parents today,
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 WHAT'S
COOKING?:
Benjamin D'Acosta & The Chocolate Factory
By Tina
Wasserman
How 17th and 18th-century
Sephardim changed the history of chocolate. Plus 3 recipes -- Budino
Cioccolato, Roulage Leontine, and Mustacchioni.
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JEWISH BOOKS
Text and Textures of Jewish Life
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the
Women of the Bible
The fact that biblical society was patriarchal--that women
were totally dependent on male heads of households--is old
news, argues Tikva Frymer-Kensky in her study of women in
the Bible. The Bible did not invent patriarchy, or slavery;
they were simply "givens" of the ancient world. Yet within
that context, stories about women serve a definite and deliberate
function. A society is judged--and, in this case, judges itself--by
its treatment of its most vulnerable members. Stories about
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the Peoples
"Normally,
I would not have attended morning synagogue services on Tisha
B'Av," writes Allan Levine, but when he finds himself close
to the site of the old ghetto in Venice, he cannot resist
attending services at one of Venice's oldest synagogues. As
he joins the men sitting on the floor (a traditional practice
on this fast day), he reflects on the resilience of Jewish
identity: "I may have spoken a different language and belonged
to a foreign culture, but as Jews the bond between us was
old and strong."
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