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In his column last week, “An Editor’s Farewell And A Call To ‘Return’” Gary Rosenblatt wonders “whether there is enough of a sense of shared history and belief in a common fate that will hold (American and Israeli Jews) together as a people.” That it no longer a question. Because there is virtually none. The […]

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Regarding Fredricka Maister’s Back Of The Book essay, “To Have And Have Not” (Aug. 30), while I am sympathetic to her childhood problems, she says, “When my sister would spot me across the cafeteria and excitedly wave, ‘Hey, Ricki,’ I’d cringe in shame and pretend I didn’t see her. It was too mortifying to acknowledge […]

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The weekday shofar blowing during the month of Elul arouses Jews to teshuvah (repentance) and, of course, tzedakah (charity), two of the three pillars of avoiding a bad judgment on Yom Kippur, the third being tefillah (prayer). “We Have Experienced Only Kindness” (Sept. 13) is a heartwarming headline and should stand alone without the negative […]

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