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The unlikely candidate

To me, mere satisfaction — in job or life — has always meant stagnancy. But, as we all know, the interview process is exhausting. Besides being on your best behavior, you\’re subject to constant judgment. Confidence is imperative, and things are often not as they seem.

Tribe

Cheating: The dreaded problem that faces every school across America — and not just the obvious sneak-a-peak-at-your-neighbor\’s-quiz cheating. With thousands of essays, articles and book summaries at their fingertips, American students have discovered the Internet, expanding the opportunities both to cheat and plagiarize.

Youth Groups Are Worth the Fight

Here is a dreaded conversation familiar to most parents of Jewish teens: Them: \”Hi, this is your synagogue youth adviser calling to make sure you received the flyer about our upcoming youth group event. Will your child be joining us?\”

Sharon Pushes for Labor, Likud Union

Convinced that 2005 will be a year of great peace opportunities, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is throwing his considerable political weight behind a coalition with the Labor Party.

Sharon sees a Likud-Labor partnership, bolstered by at least one ultra Orthodox party, as the ideal tool for carrying through his disengagement plan and beyond. To that end, Sharon is following a two-stage strategy: first, ensuring that the centrist, secular Shinui Party, which has refused to sit in the government with ultra Orthodox parties, leaves the coalition, and then breaking resistance in Sharon\’s own Likud Party to a partnership with Labor.

Hebrew, Anyone?

you thought Hebrew school was just for bar and bat mitzvah students, think again. This fall, tens of thousands of Jews around the United States and Canada are learning to read and write Hebrew through Read Hebrew America/Canada. The campaign, which is made possible by the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP), a New York-based organization that provides Jewish educational opportunities, is now offering its annual free Hebrew crash course in Los Angeles and other cities across the country during the month of November.

\”Hebrew is the language of the Jewish people, yet in America we don\’t know if more than 20 or 25 percent of Jews can read it,\” said Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenbaum, NJOP\’s program director.

Gold’s Hot Tip:Invest in Israel

For people who like to make money — and who take the long-range view — now is the time to invest in the Israeli economy, despite the current situtation, according to Stanley Gold, president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, the investment arm of the Roy Disney family.\n\nFor some time, Shamrock has been the largest private investor in Israel. With a new capital-growth fund of $170 million fully subscribed, of which $65 million is earmarked for Israel, Gold is looking for new opportunities.\n\n\”The combined effects of the intifada and the world recession have stopped the kind of Israeli economic growth we saw in the mid-1990s, and a lot of investors got scared and ran away,\” Gold says. \”We look on this as an opportunity to buy at bargain prices and reap the rewards later.\”\n\n

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