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…SPECIAL COMMENTARY The Worm In The Apple mental apple orchards, where non-pol- n the Upper Galilee, high on the luting "biological warfare" techniques ridge above Kiryat Shemona, are used to combat pests. My kids and smack on the Lebanese border, I sat on bales of hay as we listened to a sits Kibbutz Menara, founded by young woman coyly describe the sex a group of hardy pioneers in 1943. life of the moths that attack Before 1948, Menara was ...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Making Jewish Renaissance Happen A Renaissance period, has two faces. The s the new millennium first looks back to the past with a new looms ever closer, the Amer- appreciation of, respect for, and desire ican Jewish community is to appropriate, the core values and approaching it with a cau- achievements of classical civilization tious optimism far different from the — in this case classical Jewish civiliza- somewhat pani...…
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