Hillel Official Julian Sandler Dies
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2009
Julian Sandler, chairman of the Hillel: Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Board of Directors, has died.
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March 23, 2009
Report: Communities Must Do More to Attract Birthright Alums
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2009
Nearly 160,000 young Jews from North America have taken part in Taglit-Birthright Israel, a 10-day free Israel trip aimed at revving up their Jewish identities.
Foundations Form New Nonprofit to Build Jewish Social Service Movement
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2009
Several of the country¹s largest Jewish foundations and organizations have banded together to form a new nonprofit aimed at creating a Jewish social service movement.
Groups Back Obama Budget, Concerned About Tax Proposal
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2009
More than 100 Jewish community organizations are backing President Obama\’s 2010 budget while expressing \”significant concerns,\” but not opposing, a proposed decrease in the tax deduction for charitable contributions.
The Upside of Outrage
Marty Kaplan
March 23, 2009
A big reason that the Iraq war never ignited nationwide outrage on the scale of Vietnam protests was the absence of conscription. As long as the volunteer army confined the consequences of George W. Bush’s Oedipal acting-out to one slice of America, taking it to the streets was just not how the country channeled its anger; telling it to the pollster was more like it.
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