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Letters to the Editor

It is quite painful for a proud, practicing pro-Zionist Jew, who was bar mitzvahed, educated in Israel, lights candles on Shabbat, attends shul regularly, contributes to The Forward and educates his own child into the religious tradition, to be accused publicly of anti-Semitism (\”When Jews Wax Anti-Semitic,\” Feb. 18).

Criticism Remains

Shortly after the bomb went off at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, killing seven and wounding more than 80, David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, sent off a strongly worded statement of sympathy.

Terror on Campus

July 31 was the last day of Ulpan, the six-week Hebrew class at Jerusalem\’s Hebrew University\’s Rothberg School for Overseas Students.

Behind the Name

A number of years ago, a philanthropist who visited the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein\’s rabbinical seminary on the Lower East Side of New York prepared to give a large gift to the yeshiva.

Circuit

I spent the day after Super Bowl Sunday at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, which has wasted no time kicking off the new millennium with a helping hand.

Our Jamal

I stared with the rest of the horrified world at the photo of the anonymous Palestinian father holding his anonymous Palestinian son – father wounded, son dead.

Choosing to Live in Israel

Why is another group of Americans leaving the most powerful and prosperous nation on the planet to move to a small, distant state and become Israelis by choice?

Political Gamesmanship

As sure as death and taxes, Israelis can count on a coalition crisis every year in the last week of December. It happened three times to the Likud\’s Binyamin Netanyahu, and no one was surprised that this month it happened to his Labor successor, Ehud Barak.

Bagel Factory Wages

These days, the CEOs of Noah\’s New York Bagels andWestern Bagels may be getting less sleep at night, thanks to theBagel Factory.

Peace Talk

Beit Shalom is a newly minted coalition of 16American Jewish groups \”dedicated to the advancement of peace andreligious pluralism in Israel.\”

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