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Gary Rosenblatt’s column (“Hawk Or Dove On The Middle East,  I Disagree With You,” Dec. 21) correctly states that things are complicated for Israel. He makes an argument that I’ve made before: if the conflict were simple, it would already have been resolved. But a complicated situation is no reason to throw our hands up […]

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Estee Ackerman, a sixth-grader at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County and a rising star in competitive Ping-Pong, looked at the schedule of the recent U.S. National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas and figured she’d be done in plenty of time for Shabbat. More than 100 players her age were competing late last month; probably, […]

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The Jewish Week makes it a policy to glorify “cultural” Judaism frequently at the expense of “religious” (especially Orthodox) Judaism. Yet the paper also laments the lack of Jewish involvement of half the Jewish population of New York, as per the latest UJA-Federation of New York study. Many articles ponder how we can get more […]

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