Is the Electoral College Good for Jews?
November 23, 2000
The current system may be cumbersome and hard to explain, but it has magnified the power of the tiny Jewish minority in this country.
James D
Jewish Surprises on Election Day
November 16, 2000
Last week just didn\’t go at all like the pundits and prognosticators predicted.
Low Expectations
November 2, 2000
The broad range of Jewish public policy concerns are distilled to a few litmus-test questions, almost all on the Middle East; candidates are encouraged to spit back slogans, not detailed explanations of what they really think or what they would really do once in office.
The Hope Deficit
October 26, 2000
Since the latest spasm of Mideast violence began almost a month ago, American Jewish leaders have been getting together for almost daily conference calls.
Media Sex and Violence Hits Political Big Time
September 14, 2000
Across the spectrum, Jewish groups expressed concern about the report\’s conclusions but differed over exactly how the government should respond.
St. Joe Faces the Image Crunch
August 31, 2000
For Joseph Lieberman, elevated to a kind of sainthood by a press corps enraptured by his Orthodox Judaism and his image of rectitude, the next few weeks could offer some harsh splashes of reality.
Endpaper
April 6, 2000
Long before last August, when he had his bar mitzvah at Santa Monica\’s Beth Shir Shalom, 13-year-old Alex Miller has practiced what he has been preached: charity and tikkun olam.
For him, it all began in 1996, when Miller\’s third grade class participated in Super Sunday.
\”I really enjoyed it,\” he recalls. \”Whenever a phone opened up, me and my friend would run for it.\”
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