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By now, those who care about such things know that, after a century, The Christian Science Monitor has decided to discontinue publishing a weekday newspaper. The announcement came during the same week that Time, Inc., which oversees all those famous magazines, said it would be cutting 600 jobs and reorganizing its staff. Gannett, the largest newspaper publishing company in the...

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One Philanthropist Gets It Right

Long-overdue program to lower day-school costs gives hope for the future

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Jonathan S. Tobin

David Magerman is a 40-year-old with a Ph.D. in computer science who recently left the technology industry to become an investor. His main investment vehicles these days are not financial instruments. Instead, he's investing in our future through Jewish education. He's formed his own philanthropy called the Kohelet Foundation, because he sees the wisdom of Kohelet -- the Hebrew name...

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13 Years After the Assassination, Wounds Still Fester

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Elliot Jager

Thirteen years after the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, both the left and the right have embraced a single corrosive motto: "Never forget, never forgive." If they persist, our Zionist enterprise is at risk. The left appropriated Rabin's memory, distanced it from the nation as a whole, and exploited it for partisan ends. Rabin's murder was held over the...

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Lies About Settlers Hurt Israel, Not Just the Right

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Caroline Glick

Last month, the Palestinians and their anti-Zionist Israeli and international partners finally produced a smoking gun. They had a videotape of evil settlers brutally attacking poor, defenseless Palestinians as they innocently picked olives with their enlightened supporters in a grove by the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron. The Israeli media went into a feeding frenzy. The footage led the television...

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What They Are Saying, Nov.13, 2008

Syrians Discover That Al Qaeda Does Bite the Hands That Feed Them Scholar David Schenker writes in The Weekly Standard ( www.weeklystandard.com ) on Oct. 31 about the complicated relationship between Syria and Al Qaeda: "When it comes to Al Qaeda, Syria gets it coming and going. On Sunday, Oct. 26, U.S. helicopters targeted an Al Qaeda operative on Syrian...