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Columns November 6, 2009  RSS feed

Objects May Seem Closer Than They Appear
      You’ve seen this message on your rear view mirrors, but it applies to the Federation’s Annual Campaign as well! We operate on a calendar fiscal year, so our books close on December 31 of each year. This means that now that the High Holidays are behind us, Thanksgiving can’t be far away, and Hannukah is just around the bend.
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Reading My Mail
The October 16, 2009 column, “Climate of Anger and Hatred,” drew more negative and angry letters by far than any previous column.
      Over the years that “Dimensions” has been published in the Jewish Times, I have received e-mail letters in response to certain columns. I have learned that readers write more often when they disagree than when they agree with the content or point of view of a particular subject.
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Julie and Julia
     Meryl Streep’s new film reminded me to chew my food a little longer, and enjoy it a little more. “Bonjour! Bonjour!” shouts Meryl Streep, playing the role of Julia Child as she wends her way through an outdoor market in Paris. Loudly and ungainly – at 6'2" tall – Julia Child is the proverbial bull in the china shop.
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A Bad Idea
The problem is that Fayad’s plan and the Quartet’s acceptance of it, ignore U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967), which deals with establishing permanent borders for Israel.
     STEPHEN KRAMER Jewish Times Israel Correspondent
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The Mailbox: Special Larder for Letters
And so each day brings an influx of letters making all sorts of pleas (not quite demands) to help with some charity and to reach out through our checkbook to those in need.
      So do you remember the “good old days” when we had penny post cards and a first class stamp was three cents, and that meant that a letter with a three-cent stamp could go anywhere ... even to Connecticut! And Mama was quick to point out, “Why do you have to send a letter?
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