New York

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Israelis Rally For More Equitable Draft

Amid calls for ending haredi and other exemptions, concerns that new IDF enlistees could be more trouble than they’re worth.

Raoul Wallenberg’s American Connection

This summer’s international celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Holocaust rescuer Raoul Wallenberg (Aug. 4) began June 26 with a symposium at the Yad Vashem Holocaust center in Jerusalem. Although Wallenberg’s life-saving activities in German-occupied Budapest in 1944-1945 have been well documented and publicized, few people realize that American rescue advocates played […]

Ideas

Naïve About Barron

The Jewish Week’s editorial concerning Charles Barron left me scratching my head (“Representing Brooklyn On Capitol Hill,” June 22). Shortly after it appeared, Barron was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke as they share a similar hatred for Israel. And although Barron dismissed the endorsement as “foolishness,” he pointedly did not condemn […]

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Israelis Rally For More Equitable Draft

Raoul Wallenberg’s American Connection

Naïve About Barron

Israeli Nonprofit Gives Child Sex Offenders ‘Another Chance’

In Praise Of JCRC

Following The Scouts

In The Beginning

Don’t Trash Judah Maccabee

Be More Welcoming

Bayside Cemetery Spruced Up, But Many Questions Linger

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