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Weathering the Storm
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For me, there are six components essential to the success we have had with the Whizin Institute for Jewish Family Education. First of all, it’s the faculty. These are…

Contributor:

Bruce Fabian Whizin

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Date:

1998

Subjects:

Education, Communal organizations, Jewish identity, Ethics

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
“Oriental,” Not Sephardi
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I believe “Oriental” is the appropriate term. I feel proud to be classed with Hindus and Chinese and Japanese and other Asiatics. Besides, the name reminds us of dear Turkey, to whom we owe so much…

Contributor:

Joseph Gedalecia

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Demographics, Ethics, Language and linguistics, Race

Categories:

Political Culture, Ethics, Religion & Theology
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist’s Polemic
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…

Contributor:

Hillel Halkin

Places:

Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel

Date:

1976

Subjects:

Zionism, Arab-Jewish relations, Israel/Israelis, Jewish identity, Ethics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
An Act of Affirmation
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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven. We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…

Contributor:

Elliot E. Cohen

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Date:

1945

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Holocaust, Writing, Ethics, Activism

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Journalism