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In re-reading Stewart Ain’s article on the Jewish Voice for Peace activists who were banned from boarding a Lufthansa flight for Israel, I could not help but notice that there was no mention of a request for comment from either Lufthansa, to verify Rabbi Wise’s claim that Israel had indeed given the airline a list […]

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Oy, gevalt! Once again, in Letters (July 28), several of our religiously observant brethren demonstrated their narrow-minded impracticality vis a vis American and world Jewry. Avrum Hyman asserts that publication of news and opinions of Jewish nonbelievers has “no place in a newspaper intended to advance Jewish causes, Jewish progress and Jewish values.” Mr. Hyman […]

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Your Editorial, “Temple Mount Violence” (July 28) raises several serious historical questions regarding dates. The Editorial notes that the date of the destruction of the First Temple is 586 B.C.E. We know from Jeremiah and other historical sources that there were 70 years between 586 B.C.E. and the construction of the Second Temple in 516 […]

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