Jerry Weintraub, who produced such hits as The Karate Kid and the Ocean' series, died at his Palm Springs home on Monday, according to TMZ. He was 77.
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Jerry Weintraub, who produced such hits as The Karate Kid and the Ocean' series, died at his Palm Springs home on Monday, according to TMZ. He was 77.
No further details of the passing were immediately available.
Read more at Billboard.














How Israeli Academics Are Being Shut Out of the International Academic World

The pause isn’t the absence of action; it’s a sanctuary in time.

It is a challenge for which various solutions have already been tried and failed. Most of all, it is a challenge that doesn’t seem to have any prospect of being addressed anytime soon in a way that leads to a final resolution.

Presidential security machinations, like presidential vacation time and decorating budgets, often serve as partisan Rorschach tests: rivals mock, while supporters defend.

It is about refusing to allow partisan loyalty to make us silent when our own community is threatened.

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America needs the Jews as much as the Jews need America.

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Maximizing Jewish life, learning, practice and belonging remains nonnegotiable. However, when a halakhic ruling fails to achieve its purpose, we must reexamine the ruling.


Every morning I convince myself that if I could just find the right system, the right schedule, everything would finally balance.

The minyan included mechanics, replete with the mandatory oil-stained hands and grime beneath their fingernails.

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MSF’s governing structure has been manipulated by individuals who refashioned MSF into a vehicle for anti-Israel, anti-Western, and often antisemitic propaganda.

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This is not a call for endless war. It is a call for realism.
