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September 4, 2009 / Columns

No One Has a Monopoly on Israel Advocacy

By Bob Seltzer Jewish Federation Executive Vice President

Federation recently sponsored two lectures from Professor Eyal Zisser, executive director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies of Tel Aviv University. More...

Celebrate Labor Day Op-Ed: by Supporting a New Law

Today, 44 percent of newly formed unions are unable to reach initial agreements, a serious problem the current law fails to address.

By Sybil Sanchez

NEW YORK (JTA) — This Labor Day, take a moment to remember people like Lupe Hernandez. When she toured a Jewish family's apartment in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, More...

Of Hamlet and Sticks and Stones

Mature was fine, even senior or advanced in age, but elderly was definitely a no-no.

PROF. LEO LIEBERMAN, Jewish Times Staff Writer

Recently I called to mind teaching the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet and I recalled how he once responded in a semi-satiric, semi-playful manner when someone asked him what he was reading, and he said, "Words, words, words." It was then that I remem More...

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'Robbed of Files, Young Chinese Lose Their Futures'

He was aiming at a job with an oil company that would pay $735 a month. Then his Manila file disappeared. . . . Now, he earns a base salary of $90 a month as a door-to-door real estate salesman.

JOYCE S. ANDERSON Special to the Jewish Times

This was the headline of a front page article in the New York Times in late July. More...

Swedish Freedom of Speech

. . . from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, when its military prowess had diminished, (Sweden) declared its neutrality in every European conflict.

STEPHEN KRAMER Jewish Times Israel Correspondent

For some reason, Sweden has always evoked positive images: tall, blue-eyed, blondhaired, good-looking, fit inhabitants of Scandinavia; modern day Vikings; Nordic. More...

Common Questions and Concerns Regarding Divorce

By Lisa Rosenberg Moore, Esquire CooperLevenson, Attorneys at Law

Some of the most common questions clients ask when considering divorce include: 1.) What are my rights regarding my children? 2.) How will our property be divided? 3.) How expensive is a divorce? More...