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Op-Ed: Growing Birthright Israel should be a no-brainer

With a recently released study showing that Birthright Israel trips represent a truly effective way to change the course of Jewish history, increasing the number of participants should become a top priority of Jewish philanthropy, write Miriam and Sheldon Adelson. Read more »

Op-Ed: Israel must break growing stranglehold of religion

The increased stranglehold of religion on Israel has a dire impact on the nation, write the leaders of Hiddush, a new advocacy organization that aims to ensure equal civil and political rights for all regardless of religion. Read more »

Op-Ed: Government must help save domestic violence programs

Efforts to end domestic violence and aid its victims have more hard times ahead, but Congress and state governments can help by prioritizing the life-saving emergency services for the most vulnerable, writes the president of the National Council of Jewish Women. Read more »

Op-Ed: Support for Israel comes in a multitude of voices

The pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy camp can serve as a bridge between the American Jewish and Israeli communities at a time when such a bridge is sorely needed, says the incoming CEO of the New Israel Fund. Read more »

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Miriam, left, and Sheldon Adelson (Birthright Israel Foundation) Stanley Gold, left, and Uri Regev Clockwise: Jeremy Moskowitz, Joelle Berman, Joanna Kabat, and Jordan Namerow Shai Franklin, left, and Micah Halpern. Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman Larry Zicklin, left, and Peter Joseph. William Daroff, left, and Hadar Susskind Daniel S. Mariaschin, left, and Richard D. Heideman William Daroff, left, and Hadar Susskind Noam Neusner

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  • Miriam, left, and Sheldon Adelson
  • Stanley Gold, left, and Uri Regev
  • Clockwise: Jeremy Moskowitz, Joelle Berman, Joanna Kabat, and Jordan Namerow
  • Shai Franklin, left, and Micah Halpern.
  • Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman
  • Larry Zicklin, left, and Peter Joseph.
  • William Daroff, left, and Hadar Susskind
  • Daniel S. Mariaschin, left, and Richard D. Heideman
  • William Daroff, left, and Hadar Susskind
  • Noam Neusner
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Op-Ed: President Obama needs to revisit Israel

President Obama must go back to Israel to see just how much has changed -- since he was there 12 months ago as Candidate Obama -- to better formulate America's vital positions concerning Israel and its neighbors, writes the head of World Likud, Knesset lawmaker Danny Danon. Read more »

Op-Ed: Kristallnacht in Munich, then and now

Kristallnacht came early to Munich in 1938, but seven decades later a Jewish community has reinvented itself, with allegiance to the past and promise for the future, an American Jewish Committee official writes. Read more »

Op-Ed: What’s really on trial in the Goldstone Report?

Reports like the Goldstone report not only harm nation states in the war against terror, but harm the prospects for peace in the Middle East, writes the spokesman for the Consulate General of Israel in New York. Read more »

Op-Ed: AIPAC, J Street or JDate?

A former deputy national security adviser in Israel says the U.S.-Israel relationship has largely had one voice in Washington: AIPAC. And it doesn't get any better. Read more »

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