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Seeing the Importance of Israel Through College-Bound Eyes

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We are known as the People of the Book, but really, we are the people of our stories. It's our stories that have sustained us throughout the millennia, our stories that tie us from one generation to the next, our stories that have enabled us to flourish as a people, long after other ancient civilizations vanished. By passing on our...

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Letters Week of April 27, 2011

'Liberty' Plaque Actually Contains Modern Hebrew Kudos to Joel Wolowelsky, Ph.D., my fellow Yeshivah of Flatbush High School classmate, for his role in securing the Liberty Bell Hebrew-language plaque (Cover story: "Liberty Bell Rings Out With a Whole New Timbre," April 21). When I read the famous quotation in Hebrew on the plaque pictured in the Exponent , I read...

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When It Comes to Bigotry, Being a Bystander's Not an Option

By:

Barry Morrison

A Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations report earlier this year documented frequent, widespread ethnic and racial violence in our schools. One of the incidents cited -- an attack on Asian and African-American students at South Philadelphia High School -- has attracted national headlines and underscores the vulnerability of newer immigrant populations in our schools and in our communities as a...

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We Watch and We Wonder: Who Was Eichmann, Really?

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Katie Beers

He doesn't look like much, perched between two guards, hands folded in his lap, posture tilted slightly to the right. He looks almost unsuspecting beneath his horn-rimmed glasses, face wearied perhaps only by the passage of time. You would never be able to guess from looking at him that locked deep in the inscrutable recesses of his mind are the...

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The Sense and Nonsense of How the Media Tackles Israel

By:

Aryeh Green

Reporting on the Middle East affects the attitudes of academics, policy-makers, students, even our children. It's perhaps no surprise that so many academics and politicians around the globe are profoundly anti-Israel, and that so many Jewish students and children (and some adults) are increasingly uncomfortable identifying with Israel or even as Jews, when they hear how Israelis kill Palestinian bulldozer...