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Rabbi Jonah Pesner has decided not to run for United States Senate in June’s Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry, foreclosing on the possibility – for now – of the first senator who is also a rabbi. A senior vice president at the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Pesner said in a statement released […]

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Listening to the NRA’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, advocate arming civilians and placing them in every school in the country as a means of reducing violence, I was reminded of one of the more surreal scenes I’ve ever experienced, during which I was sure I would not survive. It was in the spring of 1985, […]

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“Well,” I imagine Bibi Netanyahu telling his worried supporters this week, “we’ll always have Palau.” It may well be true, but I’d rather have Paris. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that in the UN vote that gave the Palestinian Authority (now “Palestine”) observer status last Thursday, the government of Palau cast one of nine […]

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