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Being American is bad for your health

Marty Kaplan February 4, 2013

“Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy nations.”

Reform corrals broad array of groups into gun call-in

Jewish Journal February 1, 2013

The Reform movement corralled a broad array of religious denominations to call into Congress on Monday and demand action on gun violence.

USY rally against guns

Jonah Lowenfeld January 2, 2013

On Dec. 25, at its international convention in Boston, United Synagogue Youth (USY), the Conservative movement’s 20,000-member youth group, elected Michael Sacks, a senior at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, as its new international president. The next day, Sacks and 30 other USY members from the Far West region joined a crowd of more than 1,000 — most of them teenage members of the youth group — in Boston’s Copley Square for a rally to end gun violence.

Briefs

Jewish Journal January 13, 2005

The Orthodox Union\’s deaf outreach came to Long Beach for a Shabbaton gathering of the deaf and their families

Flip Side of Gun Debate

James D March 23, 2000

This week the debate over gun control — already not a model of civil democratic dialogue — reached new depths when the National Rifle Association (NRA) accused President Bill Clinton of tolerating gun violence to further his own narrow political ends.