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Father’s Day — It’s A Mitzvah

Children sometimes ask, as mine did when they were younger, why, if there is a Father’s Day and a Mother’s Day, is there no Children’s Day. Although it’s not the response that I used, the classic one is that every day is Children’s Day. That’s not exactly true, but according to the Hebrew Bible and […]

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Yale’s ‘Unfortunate’ Decision

Started amid great hope five years ago, Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) closes its doors this month surrounded by disappointment and suspicion. The academic study center, only one of two based at American universities that focus on millennia-old hatred of Jews, was created at a time when, by all accounts, […]

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The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory

Eliza McGraw’s story on a Jewish connection to the Belmont Stakes (‘Matchless Jews’: The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory,” June 10) misses a much bigger connection. August Belmont Sr., for whom the Belmont Stakes were named, was born Jewish in Germany. The family name was Schonberg (German for beautiful mountain), which he later changed to Belmont (French […]

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OpEd

Father’s Day — It’s A Mitzvah

Yale’s ‘Unfortunate’ Decision

The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory

Remembering Henry Street z

A First-Grade Teacher’s Warmth

Secularism Enhances Judaism

The ’67 Border Problem

Flawed Values

In Praise Of Women Rabbis

Yeridat haDorot, The Descent of Man: Is Progress Possible in our Time?

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