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Monday, May 20, 2013 Sivan 11, 5773

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Bring Shalit Home

It's been three years now since Hamas captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid. It is long past time for him to return home. Presumably being held in Gaza, the young man's condition remains unknown as his family campaigns relentlessly for his release. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged this week to take personal responsibility for his release,...
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Letters Week of June 25, 2009

JCCs Get a Bum Rap in Recent Cover Story I was dismayed by Bryan Schwartzman's front-page article in the June 18 issue of the Jewish Exponent concerning the demise of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia ("JCC Branches Go Separate Ways"). For 17 years, I served as the public-relations director there, and during my tenure, it was the largest...
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Jews Have Significant Stake in Getting Health Care Right

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James Rosenstein
There is now a deep and wide consensus -- both within the government and in the general populace -- that the American system of health care is severely dysfunctional and must be fixed. We must do this properly -- and soon -- to avoid the perfect storm of escalating anguish for the roughly 47 million Americans who cannot afford decent...
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An Important First Step

Benjamin Netanyahu took an important and courageous first step in declaring before the world his support for a Palestinian state. Anyone who seeks peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors knows that such a state must be at the center of any final peace deal. Although articulating the position long held by most Israelis may seem like an obvious and...
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Letters Week of June 18, 2009

Day Schools Achieve More Than Just Scholastics I agree with David Magerman's piece ("An Investment for the Future -- Specifically, the Jewish Future," June 11) in which he endorses a communal plan by which the Philadelphia Jewish community will collectively support Jewish education, primarily day schools. As a rising sophomore at a Modern Orthodox day school, I have come to...
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