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Regarding last week’s article, “NAACP Suit Says Rigged Voting System Favors Orthodox Jews in East Ramapo”: The article says, “Majority members of the board, voted in by families whose children attend yeshivas, have voted to cut taxes and budgets, citing fiscal responsibility.” This is completely unfounded. Taxes in East Ramapo have never gone down, i.e., […]

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It was unconscionable, in this age of rising racial tensions, to publish Jonathan Mark’s nostalgic paean to Meir Kahane (“New Crime Wave has Some Uneasy Jews Longing for the Jewish Defense League,”). Mark reduces the problematics of Kahane’s legacy to “personal and political instability,” an extraordinary euphemism for a history of racism, violence, thuggery and […]

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OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — As the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches, survivors are preparing to gather and commemorate the event, testifying to their faith in life over death. Political and religious leaders from around the world will be there, too, declaring that what happened in that dark abyss will never happen again. Brooding over all […]

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