Word: reform
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...recent weeks another threat to the idealistic vision of Israel has reemerged--the movement to redefine who is a Jew for the purposes of Israeli citizenship. In seeking to disqualify converts to Reform and Conservative Judaism, far right religious groups are asserting the superiority of Orthodox Judaism and the unworthiness of non-Orthodox beliefs...
...issue of "who is a Jew," organizations representing more than 90 percent of American Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have publicly condemned the attempt to redefine criteria for Israeli citizenship...
...must face the harsh reality that if the region's current economic conditions prevail, the outlook ahead is for more poverty, more instability, more violence. The U.S. might spearhead an international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth. The key here is to address the debilitating poverty that is endemic to the region. Only then is there hope of starving popular support for Central America's Communist insurgencies...
Kerrey, 45, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor and lost part of a leg in Viet Nam, earned celebrity status by leaving his profitable restaurant and sport-center business in 1982 to knock Republican Governor Charles Thone out of the statehouse. While leading a reform-minded administration, he also dated movie star Debra Winger, then declared before his term ended two years ago that the "feeling is just not there" to seek re-election. Self-effacing and willing to admit mistakes, Kerrey has the kind of appeal that has led women to ask him to autograph their T shirts...
Dukakis' convention speech gave Ailes just the opportunity he was hoping for. Dukakis, moderate in the context of Massachusetts (where reform rather than substantial justice was always his theme), is a liberal by national standards. He is undemonstrative by temperament, in any case; but for him to forswear at least part of his own heritage made him look positively furtive. He seemed to be hiding secrets as well as his smile. That would help Ailes in the crucial assignment he had given himself -- turning the unrelentingly nice George Bush into a vicious campaigner...