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September 24, 2009
I Want to Know What Happens Next
Something’s going to happen next week, or next year, that will completely change the story.
Goldstone Report Flawed, But Israel Should Investigate Its Military
The Goldstone report is severely flawed, perhaps fatally. At the same time, some of the allegations it makes deserve serious consideration by Israel.
Returning to Public Schools is a Mitzvah
Recently, I talked to new Los Angeles school board member Steve Zimmer about convincing middle-class parents to send their children to public schools.
Reflections on Friends Who Lived to Tell
There would seem to be little more inappropriate than talking sex with your gal pals who are in their 70s and 80s — and who, by the way, also just happen to be survivors of the Holocaust.
Rabbis Teach How to Preach
Their faces are lined with exhaustion, these young men and women who seem suddenly so much older than their years. Nervous laughter reverberates off the walls of the classroom as their professor outlines the changes they must make for their efforts to have merit and direction.
What’s Next For the Goldstone Report?
So far, the United Nations fact-finding mission into last January’s war in Gaza has spawned a 574-page report faulting Israel for war crimes, op-eds calling on foreign governments to hold Israel accountable — including one by the report’s author — and strident denunciations of the findings by Israeli officials.
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