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May 13, 2009
Abyss Separates Israel, U.S. as Talks Near
Welcoming the 2002 Arab League peace initiative, all but endorsing a two-state solution, insisting that the new Israeli government was determined to make peace, President Shimon Peres turned in a vintage performance at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference.
The Torah of Potholes
Scott Krieger wasn’t always an Orthodox Jew. Before getting “turned on” to Torah observance in the early 1980s — after attending a summer program run by Dennis Prager at Brandeis-Bardin Institute — he was your basic casual Jew who would attend synagogue two or three times a year.
Jews in Office, Brains Over Beauty
Rob Eshman is exactly right when he writes, “If we want more Jews in office — and it is in our interest — we have to help make it happen,”\n
The Runaway
All great literature, and most good Disney movies, begin with a missing parent. And so “The Happy Life of Martin Manrique” begins with these words:
Why are evangelicals more supportive of Israel than so many American Jews?
Israel and Los Angeles: A Shared Destiny
The City of Los Angeles and the State of Israel have long been bound together by so much — by ties of blood and family; by connections of culture and commerce; by relationships founded on religious conviction, on the pillars of faith, on shared values and on the belief that diversity is not a reason for division, but a source of our greatest strength.
Denounce Muslim group, UC Irvine chancellor urged
Nearly 2,700 people have signed an online petition encouraging a California university chancellor to publicly condemn an annual Muslim student event.
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