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After School Tragedy, Honor Victims With Action

By:

Shira Goodman

If we are serious about preventing gun violence, saving lives and, according to the Talmud, saving the world, we need to collectively take a stand against gun violence. We must make clear to our elected officials that we will not tolerate another day of inaction.

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A Plea to Rabbis Amid Butcher Closing: Consider Consequences of Your Actions

By:

Ruth Bienstock Anolik

A group of rabbis made it impossible for Main Line Kosher Meats to continue. They also made it harder for progressive, well-intentioned Jews like me to keep kosher in a secular world.

Editorials

Loss of Innocence

As we continue to seek comfort from our faith, our families and our community in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, now is the time to turn our anguish into action, to take meaningful and concrete steps to get lethal weapons off the streets and out of our communities.

Columns

A Proposal for a Weekend of Social Media Silence

By:

Eric Berger

How do you broach something so tragic as the Newtown school shooting on Facebook and Twitter? Or do you at all?

Editorials

More of the Same From the Palestinians

The leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, made his first visit to Gaza last week and peppered his numerous pronouncements with incendiary words aimed directly at Israel.