Jewish Exponent Editorial & Opinion Feed http://www.jewishexponent.com Jehuda Reinharz Jehuda Reinharz The Talmud teaches that if a king of Israel dies, all Jews are eligible to succeed him. But if a scholar dies, he cannot be replaced. I hope this is not so. Like the Talmudic sages, today's Jewish edu... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20067/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20067/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts on Intermarried Were Distinctly 'Spot-On' The observations about the shifting nature of the intermarriage discourse expressed in the editorial, "A Welcoming Weekend" (Nov. 12), are, as the British would say, "spot on." Recent year... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20049/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20049/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT It is ironic that in the same week that Jehuda Reinharz, the esteemed outgoing president of Brandeis University, issued a clarion call for greater investment in developing highly qualified Jewish educators (see Editorial & Opinion), the... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20048/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20048/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Barry Rubin Barry Rubin The real reason why there isn't Israeli-Palestinian peace has little to do with Israeli or American policies but rather relates to that most neglected of all regional issues: Palestinian politics and ideology.... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20068/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20068/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Rabbi Mayer Selekman Rabbi Mayer Selekman Visit any Conservative, Reconstructionist or Reform congregation on a Shabbat morning where there's a Bat/Bar Mitzvah in an interfaith family, and observe who's participating, where and how.... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20019/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20019/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Intermarriage has long been an established fact in American Jewish life, but the debate over how best to address it goes on. On one side are those who would focus most communal resources on bolstering the education of the "in-married" and t... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20021/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20021/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Newspaper Gives J Street Conference Short Shrift It's unfortunate that, instead of sending its own reporter to the inaugural conference of J Street in Washington, D.C., the Jewish Exponent chose to print a Jewish Telegraph Agency news brie... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20022/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20022/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman Those of us in -- or approaching -- the second half of life, find ourselves in uncharted terrain. We can expect, with any luck, to live another two, three or even four decades. Our lives... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20020/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20020/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Because You Didn't See It Isn't Proof of Anything Harry Leibson's spectacularly self-righteous comments on a recent news report about sexual abuse by a rabbi are an example of what is dismally amiss in the contemporary Orthodox world (Let... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19983/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19983/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Douglas Bloomfield Douglas Bloomfield Hillary Rodham Clinton's rescue mission over the weekend to breathe life into the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process was either a failure or a success, depending on who's telling the story... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19984/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19984/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Robert S. Wistrich Robert S. Wistrich On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews wa... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19985/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19985/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Perelman's Participation: It's Missing From Story Several weeks ago, the Jewish Exponent ran an "in-depth" article about the i-Center experience (Nation & World: "To Teach Effectively About Israel, Talk About Everything but 'Israel,' "... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19903/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19903/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Howie Beigelman It's an "off year" in the political calendar, with just three races of any import in the entire country -- all in locales with sizable Jewish populations. Statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as New York's City H... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19904/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19904/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Let's hope that the U.S. Congress musters the votes for Iran sanctions legislation quicker than it was able to push through expanded hate-crimes legislation. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that passed the... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19902/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19902/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sammie Moshenberg You might say that we are "erev" health-care-reform consideration -- on the threshold of action by the House and Senate on much-anticipated, much-debated and much-misunderstood legislation that promises to tackle and fix... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19905/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19905/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT If you are 40 years old, female and have never gotten a mammogram, stop what you're doing right now. Pick up the phone, call your doctor and make an appointment. If you're the husband of a 40-year-old women and don't know whether your wife... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19853/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19853/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Agencies Should Have Received Proper Credit The Jewish Exponent's story about Dara Horn's book and "One Book, One Jewish Community" was very well-written (City & Suburb: " 'One Book' Program to Sound the 'Horn' Over Writer's Work," Oct... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19855/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19855/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Amos N. Guiora American decision-makers are on the eve of a decision of monumental importance. President Barack Obama is considering deploying tens of thousands of additional American soldiers to Afghanistan in a war he called "fundamenta... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19856/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19856/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Doing community service has become a rite of passage for Jews of all ages. The "do-good" trend starts with preschoolers toting gently used toys to distribute to disadvantaged children. It continues with Bar and Bat Mitzvah teenagers, whose... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19854/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19854/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Ruth Messinger We live in a world that has more than its share of inequity and injustice. Thus, we have to decide -- as citizens of this country and the world -- whether and how we can open our own eyes, challenge ourselves and, most impor... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19857/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19857/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT