Word: diasporas
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...authors criticize one opinion piece's interpretation of the tragic events that occurred in Jerusalem's Old City. This is certainly as welcome as the piece itself. However, the focus of the letter, a condemnation of the Israeli occupation's deleterious effect on the moral state of Israeli and Diaspora Jewry, is presented in a fashion that is judgmental, dangerously generalizing, and devoid of any factual support or argumentation...
...does not take much to remain in a safe moral highground, write an occasional letter to the editor lamenting the "loss of beautiful Jewish minds and souls," and offer prayers for the moral state of the Israeli, Diaspora and Harvard Jewish communities...
...pray that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora will put pressure on the Israeli government to end the occupation and stop the violence now--if not out of compassion for the Palestinian people, then to free the Jews. Seth Daniel Tapper '91 Michael Cooper...
...course, denying the council funding only hurts organizations students support--from campus publications such as Diaspora to service groups such as CityStep. And that means that those 1000 students actively chose to undermine valued, legitimate organizations rather than tacitly consent to the council's behavior...
American Jewish leaders have been secretly carrying messages to Jerusalem warning of the restiveness in the U.S. Diaspora and among key policymakers in Washington. "The kind of automatic support of Israel that existed for years on Capitol Hill is simply not here anymore," says the administrative assistant to a Jewish member of Congress. A case in point: the reaction to a proposal by Senate Republican leader Robert Dole to free up foreign-aid dollars for the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe and Latin America by cutting 5% from the $6.9 billion earmarked for five key allies, Israel included. Says...