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assimilation
Maccabean dream or Hasmonean nightmare? (Chanukah 5776)
In 1972, during Richard Nixon’s visit to China, Premier Zhou Enlai was asked what he thought about the French Revolution.
The dark side of Chanukah
It is important to remember that men can never predict how their descendants will act or how their legacy of achievement will be treated
Joon
Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always use invigorating.
‘War on terror’ needs Muslims to be part of solution
How do you prevent that young Muslim from being lured by radical ideas? That was the question at the heart of a conference organized at The Hague recently by the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism. As Tariq Ramadan reminded the conference, preventative methods are bound to fail unless they include Muslims as part of the solution. To only view Muslims as potential radicals is the quickest way to alienate the very people needed to solve the problems.
Assimilating Roth’s PC Parable
When veteran producer Tom Rosenberg read Philip Roth\’s 2000 novel, \”The Human Stain,\” he immediately vowed to turn it into a movie. Roth, considered one of America\’s greatest living writers, was his literary hero; the novelist \”not only chronicles what it is to be Jewish in America, he chronicles America,\” Rosenberg, 56, said.
Faith in Travel
Vail, Colo., might seem like Siberia compared to the more established Jewish community of Los Angeles, yet here in Lionshead (elevation: 10,350 feet) there\’s some 75 Jews gathered for Shabbat morning services.
The Ethnic Revolution
Contrary to the ever-hopeful predictions of the Republicans, Jewish voters proved remarkably resistant to change in this month\’s congressional voting.