Why Does Everyone Want My Money?
Jane Ulman
October 24, 2002
Check out my checkbook register. Every time I turn around, I\’m giving money to one school or the other. On top of three hefty tuitions.
Category
Commentary
When I’m 44
Rabbi David Wolpe
October 24, 2002
Each stage of life has its characteristic depressions and delights.
Making Show Business Our Business
Rob Eshman
October 17, 2002
It has almost risen to the level of obsession, this concern about Hollywood Jews and Israel. Why aren\’t they speaking out on Israel\’s behalf? Why aren\’t they flying to Israel to show their support? Why aren\’t they sending gobs of money to help out?
Professional-Lay Relations Need Examining
Gary Wexler
October 17, 2002
When people query me as to who our clients are, if the person is Jewish, I often answer, \”Half our clients are Jewish organizations. And the other half are people who treat us really nicely.\”
Learning to Live on the Knife-Edge
David Silverberg
October 17, 2002
What\’s it like to be a citizen of a country that preempts its enemies — now that this is the official national security doctrine of the United States? Americans might look to the Israeli experience.
Watch Necessary on Campus
Jonathan S. Tobin
October 17, 2002
American Jews have spent a lot of time worrying about the difficulties facing college students in recent years. As a result, American Jews have put their money and ingenuity to work on behalf of programs that would combat assimilation on campus.
The Return of Big Brother?
David N. Myers
October 17, 2002
Like America at large, the American university is a teeming marketplace of ideas. Its greatness lies in its unrestrained commitment to open debate. Conversely, its darkest moments have come when the gateways of debate were closed.
Safety in Numbers
Rob Eshman
October 10, 2002
The immediate effect of a new, painstaking, multiyear, $6 million population survey of American Jewry has been to convince Jewish professionals that whatever they\’ve been doing is the best thing for American Jewry.
Hollywood’s Silence on Israel
Dennis Prager
October 10, 2002
Is there an issues that some Hollywood star — director, producer, actor actress — has not publicly commented on? It\’s hard to name one. Producer-director Rob Reiner has devoted years to imposing onerous taxes on poor people who smoke and to putting perhaps half of California\’s cigar and pipe stores out of business. Barbra Streisand has devoted yeoman efforts to promoting leftist causes (sometimes with malice, as in her recent letter to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt in which she writes that \”industries, run by big Republican donors and insiders, clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq\”). Ed Asner has devoted much of his life to defending leftist tyrannies.
Prager’s Tactics Are Lacking
Michael Tolkin
October 10, 2002
Dennis Prager uses half of what I said to the L.A. Times and gives the impression that I am one of those awful leftists who are \”either morally confused, immoral or lack courage.\”
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