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Regarding Fredricka Maister’s Back Of The Book essay, “To Have And Have Not” (Aug. 30), while I am sympathetic to her childhood problems, she says that, “When my sister would spot me across the cafeteria and excitedly wave, ‘Hey, Ricki,’ I’d cringe in shame and pretend I didn’t see her. It was too mortifying to […]

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Kudos to Jonathan Mark for his “The Edge of Town” column (Sept. 13) highlighting “Brooklyn’s Year of Living Dangerously,” in which he questions how lightly anti-Orthodox crime is covered and how lukewarmly it is fought. The Jewish Week, once concerned about anti-Orthodox Jewish crime, has steadily drifted leftward both politically and with regard to Israel. […]

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Which is it? Does “Our Boys,” the HBO series, “showcase Israeli society on the international stage,” according to The Jewish Week, or does it seriously distort history, including its refusal to make clear that the incident of Jewish extremism that is the focus of the series is the rare exception in the real world of […]

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