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Jewish Journal
October 3, 2002
You have posed a question, \”So do you think America should go to war with Iraq?\” (\”Nobody Likes Saddam,\” Sept. 27). My answer is yes.
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Berlin’s Open Wounds
Rachel Brand
September 19, 2002
A bombed-out building transformed into a discothèque; the central section of an apartment building that is bizarrely absent — these are just some of the visual images that preserve the memory of Berlin\’s complex and turbulent past.
Is France Anti-Semitic?
Joel Kotkin
August 8, 2002
It has become something of a cliché among Jews here in America, and in Israel as well, that Europe is now experiencing a virulent new wave of anti-Semitism.
The Curse of Certainty
Alexander Maksik
May 24, 2002
On Sept. 12, I walked into my eighth-grade English class determined to talk about what had happened the day before. I asked if anyone had anything to say.
It Takes a (Democratic) Village
Barak Lurie
May 9, 2002
So what will it take to end the decades of conflict between the Israelis and its Arab neighbors?
Let\’s first recognize the problem: For decades, we\’ve assumed it\’s an issue of land. But is that really so?
Warnings
Rob Eshman
May 9, 2002
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, prophesied that the effect of a Jewish ingathering would be immediate. \”Its very inception,\” he wrote in \”Der Judenstaat\” in 1896, \”means the end of anti-Semitism.\”\n\nWell, not quite.\n\nHere we are, 54 years after Herzl\’s dream came true, and no one is feeling very secure these days.
Options
Rob Eshman
April 4, 2002
One of the abiding lessons of the Nazi genocide is that before it happened, few people ever imagined such things were possible.
A Principal’s Principles
Andrea Adelson
December 13, 2001
Even before Columbine High School would become a national synonym for school violence in April 1999, an Orange County school administrator was troubled by finger-pointing that inevitably surfaced during that awful season of school shootings.
Peace Depends on Education
Avi Davis
December 13, 2001
In the Arabic world, education systems are riven with notions antithetical to the values of tolerance and understanding that are so intently promoted in the West. In recent years, the signal failures of those systems to reverse years of misguided teachings appear to be dooming the region to years of further conflict.
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