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progressive
Reut Report: How Intersectionality Poses A Threat to the Organized American Jewish Community
Ryan Torok
July 8, 2019
Erin Schrode Q-and-A: Progressive, pro-Israel and possibly youngest member of Congress
Jewish Journal
June 1, 2016
Yesterday, we interviewed Schrode, a 25-year-old candidate for California’s Second Congressional District from Marin County.
Fifteen answers for Dennis Prager
Jewish Journal
May 18, 2015
All right, I’ll admit it. I believe I’m a progressive, and I’m proud of it.
Everything is easier than doing good
Dennis Prager
September 5, 2012
Some thoughts for Rosh Hashanah: If we took a vote on what trait we human beings most value, goodness would undoubtedly win. Certainly goodness is the trait that we most want everyone else to possess. But if we say we value goodness above everything else — and surely Judaism does — why aren\’t there more good people? A big reason is that it is easier to value other things — including, and especially, positive things — more than goodness. So it\’s much easier to be just about anything rather than good. It’s easier to be religious than to be good.
Progressives should join Jews on Iran strategy
Andrew Lachman
November 9, 2007
Progressives need to reach out to their natural allies in the Jewish community by acknowledging that the threats of nuclear proliferation and international terrorism exist and support the same reasoned, international approach of sanctions and international pressure that has helped bring the North Korean nuclear program under control.
Time to crapple with ‘real’ Israel
Naomi Chazan
October 19, 2007
The quest for a fair and sustainable settlement to conflict in the Mideast is indeed central, but the peace process is not the only challenge of Israel\’s continuing struggle for survival as the state its founders intended it to be. Important, too, are issues that define Israel as a society, as a homeland for Jews, as a democracy. In the long run these and related topics will contribute as much as military and diplomatic matters to answering the question of whether Israel will survive another 60 years.
Maher Hathout — partner for peace or anti-Semite in centrist clothing?
Marc Ballon
September 14, 2006
Dr. Maher Hathout, like no other local Muslim leader in recent memory, has divided the Jewish community, exposing fissures between Jews who fervently believe in reviving the frayed Jewish-Muslim dialogue and those who have lost faith.
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