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SD school district’s Jewish leader has big-picture vision for public education
September 2015
- University of Michigan shuts down voting on competing resolutions about Israel-Hamas warThe University of Michigan has shut down a student vote on competing ballot initiatives about the war between Israel and Hamas. An email sent to undergraduates urging adoption of one of the initiatives violated university policy and “irreparably tainted” the vote, Timothy G. Lynch, the university’s vice president and general counsel, said in a statement .... […]
- Every soldier has a mother. And each has her own story.JERUSALEM — When Orit Avnery, an Israeli rabbi and Bible professor, said she was unsure where to start telling her war story, I thought she meant before or after Oct. 7. Before or after the weeklong pause in Israel’s current war against Hamas that ended this morning. Before or after more than 100 hostages came... […]