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I think Gary Rosenblatt mischaracterizes the rightist view on the conflict in his column, “Hawk Or Dove On The Mideast, I Disagree With You” (Dec. 21). There will always be extremists who call for annexing the West Bank or for pounding the Palestinians into submission. But I believe that the problem from the hawks lies […]

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Personal and communal changes, with ‘The Park’ as backdrop.

A few millennia later, the Hashmonaim (the family of Maccabees) are back to helping Jews in trouble. Or rather, six Israeli teens, from the modern towns of Hashmonaim and Beit Shemesh, have come to New York during their Chanukah vacations to assist in post-Sandy soup kitchens, cleaning shoreline wreckage, and showing solidarity, one Jew to […]

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