Come Fill Fatima’s Cup With Hope
Rabbi Lee Bycel
April 21, 2005
Ten days ago, I was in the Al Serif Camp in Darfur, Sudan, with Fatima, the girl you see in the photograph. She lives there with 15,000 other refugees.
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Commentary
Advice From a Jew to Pope Benedict XVI
Rabbi John L. Rosove
April 21, 2005
Despite the church\’s healing legacy to the Jewish people, and the strong moral progressive stands of John Paul II in recent years, the church\’s record is mixed and troubling in other ways.
The Interpreter
Rob Eshman
April 14, 2005
The first thing I noticed when entering Noam Neusner\’s office in Washington, D.C. was the president\’s dog.
Failed Joshua Venture’s Serious Failings
Gary Wexler
April 14, 2005
Now that it has been \”formally put to death and buried,\” as one of its grantees told me, I feel free to speak out about the Joshua Venture, a supposed breakthrough organization, subsidizing the ideas of nonprofit professionals who will be leading the next generation of Jewish life.
The Social Security Fix: Pay Back Funds
Rep. Henry Waxman
April 14, 2005
President Bush has proposed the biggest transfer of wealth in history. He plans to use trillions of dollars in contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and other administration spending priorities.
Judaism as Rational, Judaism as Truth
David Klinghoffer
April 14, 2005
Passover, now upon us, apart from being an occasion for family reunions and indigestion is the right time for a more serious activity:
I mean, reflecting on the claim that our religion is highly rational and even the claim that Judaism is \”true.\”
Far from being ethnic chest thumping, this assertion of truth can be defended with a straight face.
Iran to L.A. — Hope, Hardship Mark Path
Karmel Melamed
April 14, 2005
Jahangir Javaheri lived a full life in Iran as a pharmaceutical retailer, complete with a nice car, large house and the esteem and satisfaction that came with being a leader within the nation\’s small but cohesive Jewish community.
One of Us
Rob Eshman
April 7, 2005
At a time when faith is a substitute for knowledge, when the faithful assert their ignorance with pride and even try to foist it on the public schools, the pope was a model of spirituality melded to a fierce, probing intellect. He spoke several languages, read deeply in philosophy and religion, and understood that secular knowledge informs, rather than undermines, belief.
Slicing and Dicing L.A.’s Electorate
Jill Stewart
April 7, 2005
The race for Los Angeles mayor features two consummate insiders who are close to one another ideologically and disagree on few issues, posing a question: With Sacramento politics offering a clash of political tectonic plates and big, competing reforms, why is the mayor\’s race lacking in big ideas?
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