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Op-Ed: Concerted effort needed to meet demand for educators
Smart marketing and more money is needed to meet the urgent demand for top-quality Jewish educators, writes the president of Brandeis University. Read more »
Op-Ed: A personal perspective on a flawed health care system
After surviving a life-threatening malady physically and financially, the CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council writes with even greater urgency about the need for comprehensive reform in the U.S. health insurance system. Read more »
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: 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: 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: What Israelis need to know about intermarriage in North America
The CEO of InterfaithFamily.com writes that helping Israelis to learn not to think and talk about intermarriage as the equivalent of assimilation will contribute to increased Jewish identity and connection among intermarried families -- something that is of vital interest to the Jewish communities of both North America and Israel. 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: 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: 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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