Gary Rosenblatt
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A sobering statistic: Israel has averaged a war every eight years since statehood. With that in mind, and with the memory of frightened civilians in the north left on their own while under rocket ...
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(Editor’s note: This column first appeared April 28, 2000.) Did you hear the one about the fellow on his first UJA mission to Israel who asked his guide, “How do you say tikkun olam in Hebrew?” T...
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The only thing surprising about the decision last week of a distinguished Ivy League university press to, in effect, censor a key element of a book about censorship is how predictable the result wa...
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It didn’t take long for the jokes to start making the rounds in response to the latest rabbis-as-(alleged)-crooks scandal. There was the one about the latest Friday-night practical halacha shiur, o...
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The contrast between the American spectacle of celebrity death worship and the Jewish tradition of mourning has rarely been as sharply defined as recently. I write these words shortly after Michae...
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Accustomed as he is to public speaking here and around the country, David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, can read an audience as well as anyone. Lately, he says, h...
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NEW YORK — Think of the American Jewish community as a business — a more than $10 billion annual business. If our organizations and leaders made programming decisions based on that notion, perhaps ...
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Have we reached the point where we not only take anti-Semitism for granted but don’t even question the illogical attitudes of those who hate us? I learned with shock, as we all did, of the attempt...
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Prague — On a recent visit here, my wife and I toured several famous synagogues, remarkable for their long history, beautiful architecture and vast size, part of the reason why for tourists, the Je...
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It’s time to recognize that, with the collapse of the economy, the American Jewish day school model is breaking, if not already broken. We have to deal with a new reality, and that calls for revis...
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NEW YORK — I’ve had a growing sense of foreboding in recent days about the very real dangers to the State of Israel, internally and externally, and what I perceive to be an increasing emotional dis...
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NEW YORK — More than 50 of us recently gathered for a full day to talk about whatever we wanted. But there was really only one issue on our minds. Over the past three years, when alumni of The Con...
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NEW YORK — I’ve just finished reading a book called “New York Jews and the Great Depression.” Sounds all too current, I know, but it’s a study of the Jewish community here in the 1930s — how it suf...
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JERUSALEM — The potential silver lining from the national elections — resulting in a frustrated electorate without a clear-cut leader or stable government — is that the country’s voting system, fin...
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As I read the Torah portion Shemot, I couldn’t help but smile at the contrast in style between Moses, in his first appearance as the future (and greatest) leader of the Jewish people, and Barack Ob...
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As Israel makes the case for its military actions in Gaza, international attention is focused on the United Nations, where a newcomer to the world of diplomacy has been thrusted front and center. ...
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NEW YORK — “Leadership” is the mantra of our times. Countless books, articles and lectures have been devoted to the theme of developing leaders in the world of business, politics, communal life an...
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NEW YORK — Normally about now we would be hearing of preparations for the next National Jewish Population Study (NJPS), undertaken since 1970, at the beginning of each decade, by the Jewish federat...