Publications
July-August 1997
POST PERES LABOR
Susan Hattis RolefLabor's leadership primaries, held on June 3rd,were lacking in tension or excitement.
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ZIONISM AND THE JEWISH STATE
Mark A.RaiderIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Jewish communities of Europe were traditional in character.
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IS RENEWAL UNDERWAY?
Jerry GoodmanIn recent months, Israel's General Federation of Labor, the Histadrut, has shown signs of a renewed sense of purpose . This follows on
the heels of radical organizational and ideological changes which have been taking place within the venerable federation .
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IN THE SPIRIT OF HARAV KOOK
Gustave PearlmanThere was a time, before and during the
British Mandate that the present conflict between the religious and secular in Israel was almost non-existant. Much of this was due to
the teachings of HaRav Avraham Kook.
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THE LYNCHING OF LEO FRANK; A FRIDAY NIGHT
JEWISH POWER by J.J .GOLDBERG
Daniel MannThe time was August 1975, when Washing-
ton tends to be hot and humid and news from the capital is relatively subdued .
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AND THE MAGIC CIRCLE
Harold TicktinCommenting on Madeleine Albright's dis-
covery of her Jewish antecedents, Zbigniew Brezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser and Ms.Albright's thesis adviser at Columbia University said :"Americans have a very naive view of the symbiosis and interpenetration between Jewish and non-Jewish..."
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MEXICAN JEWRY
Edward B.GlickMexico was not the original New-World
destination for most Mexican Jews, especially the sixty percent of them who are Ashkenazim.
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RAANANAH AT 60
Once upon a time, in the Jewish immigrant experience in America, there was strong drive to assimilate and quickly become
part of the dominant culture .
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THE TRIANGLE FIRE RECALLED
On March 25, 1911, the infamous Triangle
Fire in New York took the lives of 146 young women trapped in an inferno or who leaped to their deaths through the windows of the plant where they worked...
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ORIGIN OF AMERICAN HABONIM
Yehuda RiemerHow did it come about? And who was
responsible? In the eyes of its founders and early active members Habonim was almost exclusively their own creation .
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JACOB LESTCHINSKY
David RosenthalA general picture of the origin and aims
of the science of statistics will enable us to view more fundamentally the pioneering nature and significance of Jacob Lestchinsky (1876-1966),one of the earliest practitioners of Jewish statistics .
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