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Be More Welcoming

There has been lots of attention paid to the recent census numbers of New York’s Jewish population regarding the shrinking middle, i.e., Jews that are identified as belonging to the Conservative and Reform movements (“Sweeping Changes To Jewry Seen In N.Y. Population Survey,” June 15). Let us not just bemoan the situation. Let us take […]

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Yitzchak Shamir, 1915-2012

Yitzchak Shamir was a 1930s refugee, a 1940s revolutionary, a 1950s spy, and later a politician — and prime minister — who made no effort to be loved or to craft an image. Diminutive, barrel-chested, with a face like a clenched fist, he showed just how tough a shtetl Jew could be. Never as eloquent, […]

Jewish Week Receives Casey Medal Honor

Paper’s investigative series on child abuse in Orthodox community cited in national contest.

Can We Talk?

Demographics Put Pressure On Communal Groups

From Superman To The Everyman

The New Jewish Heritage Push

When A Donkey Sees What A Prophet Won’t

Raoul Wallenberg’s American Connection

Chinese-Jewish Relations: The Mitzvah of Saving Face

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