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Even upon landing in Paris, en route to Toulouse, it was clear that a grave thing has happened. I could see an armed soldier every few meters. When I got off the El Al plane from Israel a heavy feeling connected me immediately to the reality not only of what happened — the murder of […]

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Jon Goldman, one of the founding members of the progressive Beacon School on the Upper West Side, who guided two generations of students there through the complexities of American and British literature, died March 28. He was 50. Mr. Goldman, who grew up in Huntington, L.I., and spent three years in Israel in the early […]

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During Bill Clinton’s successful campaign for the presidency, he famously donned a black kipa during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem and shed a tear in a prayerful (and highly photogenic) moment. And in that moment, the organized Jewish community — then awkwardly watching the tensions between Prime Minister Shamir and President Bush […]

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