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I applaud Glenn Drew for calling attention to “The Delusion of Day School Affordability” (Opinion, Oct. 20). We have to disabuse those outside the orbit of the day school world of the notion that parents alone can sustain our schools. They cannot. Our educational institutions constitute a public good that requires support from all precincts. […]

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Your excellent editorial, “Target: Gun Control” (Oct. 6), ends on a sad note, observing that no real action to curb weaponry will occur unless the next massacre takes the lives of some gun advocates. We do not wish this fate upon them. But it may be the unvarnished truth. America’s impossible gun situation is due […]

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In her essay, “The Lasting Lessons Of A Shuttered Temple” (Back Of The Book, Oct. 13), Lori Silberman Brauner displayed a disturbing bias toward the way in which Eastern European Jews have traditionally pronounced Hebrew, noting that she “winces when listening to the pronunciation of prayers in Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues.” I am sorry she feels […]

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