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  • The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope

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    Too many Black Americans live in neighborhoods that are filled with gun violence, dysfunctional and abusive families, and children with deficient academic and behavioral skills. Instead of engaging in an open-minded search for solutions, too many pundits and politicians are content to point their fingers at systemic racism, while dismissing individual effort and traditional measures of merit as ... Leer más

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  • Wilt

    Larger Than Life

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    The author, a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus—as was Wilt Chamberlain—of Overbrook High School, spent four years researching and interviewing the most important people in Wilt's life. The result is a capturing of Wilt's personality and thoughts that relatively few people other than family and close friends ever knew. ... Leer más

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  • Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure

    Their Origins and Relevance in the Twentieth-Century

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    At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong virginity while the Babylonian Talmud strongly embraced positive views on bodily pleasures and female ... Leer más

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  • Arab Citizens of Israel: How Far Have They Come?

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    Arab Citizens of Israel challenges narratives that portray Israel as a settler-colonial apartheid state defined by entrenched discrimination against its Arab minority. To correct this distorted image, Professor Robert Cherry traces Jewish–Arab relations from the pre-Mandate period through Israel's early years, when Arab citizens lived under military rule and faced discrimination and land ... Leer más

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    How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture

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    In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "end welfare as we know it" by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million. This hotly contested legislation has fueled countless hyperbolic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum rather than a clearheaded examination of the actual results of the reform. Robert ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Poles and Jews

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    Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry. Through the presentation of these negative images in ... Leer más

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  • Moving Working Families Forward

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