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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

It's Really Not About Palestinian Statehood

By:

Harris Devor and Asaf Romirowsky

As almost everyone knows by now, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to march into the United Nations this month and demand statehood for the Palestinians by way of a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Such a state would be in lands east of the 1949 armistice lines, established after Israel's War of Independence, as well as in the Gaza...

Columns

Striving to Create a Different Kind of Post-9/11 Building Project

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Abby Stamelman Hocky

When extremists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, it was, at the heart of it, an attack on our ideals and on our founding principles as a nation -- on democracy, freedom, pluralism. It was an attack on our core belief that all perspectives have a place and a voice -- and we can talk to one another...

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Readers Remember 9/11

EDITOR'S NOTE: We asked our readers to tell us where they were when they learned about the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Editorials

A Delicate Balance

We Jews are good at remembering. We are commanded to remember, lizkor , in myriad ways throughout the year: We say Yizkor for a deceased relative; we mark the horrors of the Holocaust with Yom Hashoah and pay tribute to Israel's fallen soldiers with Yom Hazikaron. But how do we best remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11...

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