Past Commentaries

Past Columns

Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk
 

Seattle - posted 5/8/08

Black-Jewish Relations & Jewish Success Anxiety - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 5/1/08

Apostates:  Falk, Finkelstein, Chomsky and Judd.  An Age Old Jewish Problem. - posted 4/24/08

The Strictures of Yesterday, the Freedoms of Today - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 4/17/08

Kol Yisroel Chaverim - posted 4/10/08

“Es Donnert und Blitzelt in der Chechoslovakai” - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 4/3/08

Jewish Astronauts - posted 3/27/08

The Code of Morality - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 3/20/08

Jewish Brethren Awake! - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 3/13/08

Our Jewish Strivings, Hopes, Beliefs, and Realities, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/28/09

Obama - posted 2/21/08

Jewish Grandparents - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/14/08

Our Pyrrhic Victories - posted 2/7/08

The Rabbi as Symbol, Scholar, Therapist, Healer of the Soul, Gateway to G’d and More - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/31/08

The Fate of Children Who Fled from the Nazis - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/24/08

Politicians - posted 1/17/08

Raoul Wallenberg - A True Zadik - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/10/08

Saving the Children - posted 1/3/08

Kindertransport & Its Ramifications - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 12/27/07

Judaism as a Civilization - posted 12/20/07

Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 12/13/07

The Violin and the Little Black Bag - posted 12/6/07

A Glance at the Rabbi / Religious "Leader" of Today - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 11/29/07

British Hate - posted 11/22/07

"Ein Warmes Stuebchen, Ein Warmes Sueppchen": A Warm Soup, A Warm Room - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 11/15/07

Jewish Alcoholics & Drug Abusers - posted 11/8/07

Kristallnacht – The Night of the Crystal Glass, November 9-10, 1938 - by Dr. Gerhard Falk & Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 11/1/07

Faith - A Tale of Two Lives - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 10/25/07

Carter, Walt, Mearsheimer, Gőbbels and a Dictionary of Hate - posted 10/18/07

The Kabbalah - posted 10/11/07

The Jews in Arab Lands - posted 10/3/07

Bereitschaft / Preparedness - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 9/26/07

Innocence Lost - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 9/20/07

The Reaction of the Orthodox Jewish Community to the Ordination of Female Rabbis - posted 9/16/07

The Rabbi Has No Beard - posted 9/6/07

Some of Life's Lessons Learned from the Holocaust - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 8/30/07

“Entartete Kunst” or Degenerate Art - posted 8/23/07

Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland; Central Council of Jews in Germany - posted 8/16/07

The Organization of American Synagogues - posted 8/9/07

Birobidzhan - posted 8/2/07

A Jewish Woman Today and Yesterday - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 7/26/07

The Jewish Woman in America, Part 2 - posted 7/19/07

The Jewish Woman in America, Part 1 - posted 7/12/07

Sandy Koufax - posted 7/5/07

Derach Eretz & Cookie Cutter Bar Mitzvahs - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 6/28/07

Norman Finkelstein - posted 6/21/07

The Jews of Europe - posted 6/14/07

Forty Years - posted 6/7/07

Jewish Wisdom Plus - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 5/31/07

Abba Hillel Silver (1893 - 1963) - posted 5/24/07

Cohen & Rosenzweig - posted 5/17/07

It's Too Jewish - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 5/10/07

“He who saves one life saves the entire world” (The Talmud-Sanhedrin 4:1 22a) - posted 5/3/07

A Tale of Two Centers - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 4/26/07

Stephen S. Wise - posted 4/19/07

Sharpton - posted 4/12/07

Isaac Meyer Wise (1819 - 1900) - posted 4/5/07

The Feminization of the United States (Jewish Community) - posted 3/29/07

Ghetto - posted 3/23/07

The New York Times & Other Anti-Jewish Jews - posted 3/15/07

Synagogues in Decline & the Iron Law of Oligarchy - posted 3/8/07

How Judaism Differs - posted 3/1/07

Court Jews & Prosecutors - posted 2/22/07

Black Jews - posted 2/15/07

Members of the Western New York Peace Center Use Guise of Peace to Enable Hatred and Misunderstanding in the Middle East - by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Buffalo Chapter - Posted 2/7/07.

American Jewish Music:  Distinguishing Myth from Reality - posted 2/1/07

The After Effects of Hitler's Terrorism - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/25/07

Politicians - posted 1/18/07

Lessons Not Learned - posted 1/11/07

The Academic Profession - A Jewish Topic - posted 1/4/07

The Restoration of Israel - posted 12/28/06

Jimmy Carter and Joseph Göbbels ; James “F*** the Jews” Baker and Adolf Eichmann; Adolf Hitler and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - posted 12/21/06

The New and Improved Jewish Community Center of Buffalo and Erie County - posted 12/14/06

Cantor - posted 12/7/06

On the Horns of a Dilemma - posted 11/30/06

Religion - posted 11/23/06

France - posted 11/16/06

Synagogue and Church Fighters: The Righteous Ones - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 11/9/06

Kurt Eisner (1867 - 1919) - posted 11/2/06

The Invisible Wall - posted 10/26/06

Jew Against Jew - posted 10/19/06

Turkey - posted 10/12/06

The Fast of Gedaliah - posted 10/5/06

The Weizmann - Faisal Agreement - posted 9/28/06

The Potsdam Miracle - posted 9/21/06

Ageism is Alive & Sick - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 9/14/06

The Pittsburgh Platform - posted 9/7/06

The Guardian - posted 8/31/06

A Society of Myths - posted 8/24/06

The Iron Law of Oligarchy - posted 8/17/06

Jews for Jesus - posted 8/10/06

Anti-Semitism in the USA vs. the Holocaust - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 8/3/06

The Arab Contribution to Human Civilization - posted 7/27/06

It is All the Fault of the Jews - posted 7/20/06

Invisible Jews - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 7/13/06

Emil Fackenheim (1916 - 2003) - posted 7/6/06

Benjamin Cardozo (1870 - 1938) - posted 6/29/06

Our Jewish Identity - "From the Womb to the Tomb" - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 6/22/06

Ehud Olmert - 12th Prime Minister of Israel - posted 6/15/06

Hitler Lives - In Poland & England & Toronto - posted 6/8/06

Some Jewish Traditions, Superstitions & Folk Tales - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 6/1/06

An American Woman - Henrietta Szold (1860 - 1945) - posted 5/25/06

A Dream Fulfilled - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 5/18/06

The Jewish Community & Our Presidents - posted 5/11/06

Darfur - posted 5/4/06

Lillian D. Wald (1867 - 1940) - posted 4/27/06

Blind Hatred in Today's America Against Our Jewish People - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 4/21/06

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Walt-Mearsheimer Hate Machine - posted 4/12/06

Jacob Schiff (1847 - 1920) - posted 4/6/06

The Encyclopedia Judaica - posted 3/30/06

Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) & the Double Helix - posted 3/23/06

Karl Marx (1818 - 1863) - posted 3/16/06

A Man Who Changed the World - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 3/9/06

Al Gore, the Anglican Church and the Jews - posted 3/2/06

Anti-Jewish Behavior:  "Brothers Who Don't Hold Hands" - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/23/06

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers - posted 2/16/06

Paul Erdos - posted 2/9/06

HAte, Murder, And Suicide - posted 2/2/06

Louis Brandeis - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/26/06

Lest We Forget - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/19/06

Three and One Half Jews - posted 1/12/06

Anti-Semites, Misfits & the Urge for Power - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 12/29/05

A Chanukah Tale - posted 12/22/05

Two German Patriots - posted 12/15/05

Zedakah Yesterday and Today - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 12/1/05

The Most Jewish Industry in America - posted 11/24/05

Karaites - posted 11/17/05

Eduard Schnitzer (1840 - 1892) - posted 11/10/05

Distinguishing Myth from Reality - posted 10/27/05

Taberna - posted 10/20/05

Yom Kippur - posted 10/12/05

No Comment - posted 10/6/05

Benny Friedman (1905 - 1982) - posted 9/22/05

Lessons Learned from Katrina & the Holocaust - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 9/15/05

Michael Chertoff - posted 9/8/05

Hope - posted 9/1/05

Eireann - posted 8/25/05

Ethnic Cleansing - posted 8/18/05

The Teachings / Learnings & Practice of Orthodoxy to Jewish Children in the Early Twentieth Century - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 8/11/05

Gaza - posted 8/4/05

The Jewish Bomb - posted 7/28/05

Bagels & a Cup of Coffee - posted 7/21/05

A Comparative Study of Orthodox Hebrew Day Schools and a Trans-denominational Hebrew Day School - by Dr. Stanley Dickson - posted 7/14/05

Benedict - posted 7/7/05

We Will Die For You - posted 6/16/05

Mark Spitz - posted 6/2/05

The Betrayal of the Fifth Commandment - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 5/26/05

Remember - posted 5/12/05

The Jewish Press - posted 5/5/05

A Pesach Story - posted 4/28/05

The Murder of Theresa Schindler Schiavo - posted 4/7/05

Guardians of the City or Neturei Karta - posted 3/31/05

The Cibulski Family - posted 3/24/05

Harvard University - Hitler Lives Again - posted 3/20/05

Moschiach - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 3/13/05

Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) - posted 2/27/05

Theodor Herzl - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/10/05

Two Admirals - posted 2/3/05

Politicians - posted 1/27/05

Japs & Gaps - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/20/05

Moses Rabaynoo - posted 1/13/05

Tzedakah Now & Then - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/6/05

Christian Zionism - posted 12/30/04

Hillel - posted 12/23/04

Shimon Peres - posted 12/16/04

Stigma - posted 12/9/04

Hamburg - posted 12/2/04

Meyer R. Schkolnick (1910 - 1993) - posted 11/25/04

The 72 Names of God - posted 11/18/04

Replacement Theology - Two Covenant Theology - posted 11/11/04

Crystal Night - Night of the Broken Glass - posted 11/4/04

Endorse Kerry - posted 10/28/04

Smeared - posted 10/21/04

Morris Berg (1902 - 1972) - posted 10/14/04

Simchat Torah - posted 10/5/04

Sukkoth & the Functions of Judaism - posted 9/29/04

The Day of At-one-ment - posted 9/23/04

1654 - posted 9/15/04

Yeshiva University - posted 9/9/04

Yehudah Loew, the Maharal of Prague (1512-1609) - posted 9/2/04

The Last Jews of Berlin - posted 8/26/04

The Jews of Alaska - posted 8/12/04

The Teaching of Contempt - posted 8/5/04

Moises Ville - posted 7/29/04

The Separation of Myth from Reality - posted 7/22/04

The International Court of Justice - posted 7/15/04

Cesare - posted 7/8/04

The Great Sanhedrin - posted 7/1/04

Who is a Jew? - posted 6/24/04

Magen David - posted 6/17/04

Vanunu - posted 6/10/04

Shanghai - posted 6/3/04

Nick Berg (1978 - 2004) - posted 5/28/04

Ten Commandments - posted 5/20/04

Eurabia - posted 5/13/04

A Great Mitzvah - posted 5/6/04

Four Jewish Commonwealths - posted 4/29/04

Mordechai - posted 4/22/04

Jews for J - posted 4/15/04

Can Israel Survive? - posted 4/8/04

Sir Moses Montefiore (1784 - 1885) - posted 4/1/04

Kabbalah - posted 3/25/04

The Jewish Farmer in America - posted 3/18/04

Martin Buber (1878 - 1965) - posted 3/11/04

Mel Gibson - A Hater for Our Time - posted 3/4/04

Jew Against Himself - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/26/04

John Kerry - Enemy of the Jewish People - posted 2/19/04

David "Mickey" Marcus (1902-1948) - posted 2/12/04

The Crypto-Jews of the Southwest - posted 2/5/04

The "Death Penalty" - A Jewish View - posted 1/29/04

Liberals - posted 1/22/04

A Traitor Rears His Ugly Head - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/15/04

Jewish Dress - posted 1/8/04

The Jews of New York - posted 1/1/04

Lord Beaconsfield - posted 12/25/03

The Holocaust Industry - posted 12/18/03

Ambition - posted 12/11/03

The People of the Periodical - posted 12/4/03

November 29, 1947 - posted 11/27/03

The New Jewish Population Study - posted 11/20/03

Two German Jews - Two Kentucky Americans - posted 11/13/03

Kristallnacht - The Night of the Broken Glass - posted 11/06/03

The Fence II - posted 10/30/03

The Flag of Israel - posted 10/23/03

Rabbis Now & Then - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 10/16/03

Columbus Day - posted 10/9/03

Satmar - posted 10/2/03

3727 - posted 9/25/03

Isaac Klein (1905 - 1979) and Joseph Caro (1488 - 1575) - posted 9/18/03

Television Jews - posted 9/11/03

John von Neumann - posted 9/4/03

Resentment Against Achievement - posted 8/28/03

Football - The Jewish Experience - posted 8/21/03

Radical Islam Seeks World Domination - posted 8/14/03

Jewish Musicians - posted 8/7/03

The Fence - posted 7/31/03

Believe It or Not ... - posted 7/24/03

Collectors - posted 7/17/03

1967 - posted 7/10/03

American Jewish Writers - posted 7/3/03

The Jewish Chaplain - posted 6/26/03

Exclusion - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 6/19/03

Kosher - posted 6/12/03

Shavuoth:  The Feast of Weeks - posted 6/5/03

The Synagogue - posted 5/29/03

The Road Map to Destruction - posted 5/22/03

Belgium - posted 5/15/03

The Independence of Israel - posted 5/8/03

The Lesson of the Holocaust - posted 5/1/03

Exodus - posted 4/25/03

Chaldea - posted 4/16/03

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs - posted 4/10/03

Peace - posted 4/3/03

The Jews of Iraq - posted 3/27/03

Milchamah - The Jewish View of War - posted 3/20/03

Hannah Senesh (1921-1944) - posted 3/13/03

What Nobody Knew - posted 3/6/03

The End of Democracy - posted 2/27/03

A Modern Day Bilbel or J'Accuse Revisted - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/20/03

Vayehee Erev, Vayehee Vowker, Yom Echod - posted 2/13/03

Peace With Honour; Peace In Our Time - posted 2/6/03

Samaritans - posted 1/30/03

Germans - posted 1/23/03

Religious Ambivalence Through the Eyes of a Teenager:  "Yetzer Hore and Yetzer Tov" - Which Will Win?  - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 1/16/03

Zeev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky - posted 1/9/03

Sabbatai Zvi - posted 1/2/03

Self Hatred - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 12/26/02

Joseph Trumpeldor - posted 12/19/02

Tel Aviv - Jaffa - posted 12/12/02

Jewish Names - posted 12/5/02

The Banality of Evil - posted 11/28/02

Brazil - posted 11/21/02

Benjamin Netanyahu - posted 11/14/02

Nobel - posted 11/7/02

The Vanishing American Jew - posted 10/31/02

4.5% - posted 10/24/02

That Which People Believe is Real, is Real in its Consequences - posted 10/17/02

Liberals - posted 10/10/02

Denying the Holocaust - posted 10/4/02

The Most Successful Social Movement in History - posted 9/26/02

The Survival of Israel - posted 9/19/02

"This is the Day the Lord has Made; Let Us Be Glad and Rejoice In It" - posted 9/12/02

Loshon Hara, the Evil Tongue or Ugly Gossip - posted 9/5/02

Our Great Rabbis and Their Books - posted 8/29/02

Christians - posted 8/22/02

The Chosen People - posted 8/15/02

Generation Exodus - posted 8/8/02

Antisemitism is Alive and Thriving, Especially in Europe - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 8/1/02

The Muslim Assault on Western Civilization - posted 7/25/02

The Pledge of Allegiance Decision - posted 7/18/02

Refugee Children and Their Offspring - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 7/11/02

The Middle East Studies Association - posted 7/4/02

Money - the Two-Edged Sword - posted 6/27/02

1929 - posted 6/20/02

Life is With People - posted 6/13/02

Syria - posted 6/6/02

Jewish College Students - posted 5/30/02

American Jews - posted 5/23/02 

Some Facts to Ponder - posted 5/15/02

Ariel Sharon - A Jewish Hero - posted 5/9/02

The United Nations - United for What? - posted 5/2/02

The Jews of Europe - posted 4/25/02

Poland - posted 4/18/02

The Lessons of Jewish History - posted 4/11/02

Jewish Poverty - posted 4/5/02

The Rise and Fall of the Haters - posted 3/27/02

Swine - posted 3/21/02

Argentina - posted 3/14/02

From Child to Parent to Grandparent (In America We Have It Good) - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 3/7/02

The Murder of Daniel Pearl - posted 2/28/02

Gerontophobia - The Fear and Hatred of the Old - posted 2/21/02

We Jews Are Next:  The So-Called International War Crimes Tribunal & Israel - posted 2/14/02

The Closing of the Moslem Mind - posted 2/7/02

The Expulsion of the Professors from the Universities in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 - posted 1/31/02

Civil Rights for Everyone Else - But Not for Rosenbaum - posted 1/24/02

Defaming Jews - posted 1/18/02

Judah or Israel:  Two Choices, One People - posted 1/10/02

Tallit - posted 1/3/02

The Bible - posted 12/27/01

Red Cross - Double Cross - posted 12/20/01

The Scientific Study of Judaism - posted 12/13/01

Lies and Murder, Murder and Lies - the Arab Attack on Western Civilization - posted 12/6/01

Jewish Academics - With Such Friends We Need No Enemies - posted 11/29/01

Modern Jewish Orthodoxy - posted 11/22/01

Kaddish - posted 11/15/01

Jewish Jokes - posted 11/1/01

God's Gift - posted 10/25/01

The Greatest Terror of Them All - posted 10/18/01

Shalom, Peace, Frieden, "Pacem in Terris, et ad hominem, bonis volens." - posted 10/11/01

Work - the Purpose of Life - posted 10/4/01

The Chosen People - posted 9/27/01

Yom Kippur - posted 9/20/01

Serial Killers - DeSalvo, Gacy, Kearney, Essex, Bundy, Bin Laden & Arafat - posted 9/13/01

The Stutterer & the Radio Station - posted 9/6/01

Shabbat Shalom! - posted 8/30/01

Whose Side Are We On?  - posted 8/23/01

Brith Abraham - posted 8/16/01

Jonathan Pollard - the American Dreyfus - posted 8/9/01

Rambam:  The First Reform Jew - posted 8/2/01

Kill the Jews! - posted 7/26/01

A Walk Through the Torah - posted 7/19/01

We Need More Agnostics in the Beth Haknesset - posted 7/12/01

Excommunication and the Death Penalty - posted 7/5/01

Secularization - posted 6/28/01

Words Make a Difference - posted 6/21/01

Jewish Scholarship - posted 6/14/01

Religious Hate, the Media & Israel - posted 6/7/01

Kosher Sex - posted 5/31/01

McVeigh, Eichmann & Arafat:  Three Mass Murderers, One Motive - posted 5/24/01

The Pope, the Jews & History - posted 5/17/01

France - posted 5/10/01

The So-Called War Crimes Tribunal of the United Nations - posted 5/3/01

Israel's Independence Day - Yom Ha'Atzmaut - posted 4/26/01

Yom Hashoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day - posted 4/19/01

On Whose Side Are We? - posted 4/12/01

The Feminist Seder & Other Innovations - posted 4/5/01

Bar Mitzvah - Bat Mitzvah - posted 3/29/01

It is Jewish to Fight - posted 3/22/01

Moshe Rabenoo - Moses, Our Teacher - posted 3/15/01

Der Jude Einstein - posted 3/8/01

How to Write a Jewish Book - or Any Book - posted 3/1/01

Believe It or Not - There was a Jewish Kingdom in Russia - posted 2/22/01

Jewish-American Literature - posted 2/15/01

The Wunder Rebbis Wunder or the Wonder Rabbi's Powers - by Dr. Ursula A. Falk - posted 2/12/01

Moses, the Son of Mendel - posted 2/8/01

The Blessed Spinoza and Other Heretics - posted 2/1/01

The Master of the Good Name - A Master for All Times and All Jews - posted 1/25/01

Enjoy Yourself and Meet Your Jewish Brethren - Every Morning - posted 1/18/01

Apostates - A Never Ending Plague - posted 1/11/01

Justice and Judaism - An American View - posted 1/4/01

Chanukah Means Dedication - posted 12/28/00

The Achievements of the American Jewish Community:  Four Fruits of Freedom - posted 12/21/00

Jewish Immigration - posted 12/14/00

Believe It or Not - the "Liberal" Jews Really Did This - posted 12/7/00

The Achievements of the German Jews - posted 11/30/00

The Electoral College and the Jews:  The Founding Fathers Must Have Meant Us - posted 11/23/00

Punishment Without Crime:  The Stigma of Being Old - posted 11/16/00

Two Crystal Nights - posted 11/9/00

"Land for Peace":  A "Liberal" Illusion - posted 11/2/00

What We Jews Owe One Another - posted 10/26/00

Succoth, Shemini Azereth and Simchat Torah:  Three Festivals, One Meaning - posted 10/19/00

Violence:  The Last Resort of Every Dictator - posted 10/13/00

The Muslim Riots Against the Jewish Presence on the Temple Mount - posted 10/12/00

The Last Yom Kippur - posted 10/5/00

What Rosh Hashanah Really Means - posted 9/28/00

She Loves Us ... She Loves Us Not ...  - posted 9/21/00

If You Can't Sing in Shul, Where Can You Sing? - posted 9/14/00

It is Good to Be a Rabbi - But Not Among the Jews - posted 9/7/00

The Talmud - The Jewish Home in Exile - posted 8/31/00

Explaining the Holocaust - posted 8/24/00

The Lieberman Nomination - posted 8/17/00

Is That a Jewish Expression? - posted 8/10/00

The Borders and the People of Israel - posted 8/3/00

Yerusholayim - The Holy City - posted 7/27/00

One People - Three Languages:  Yiddish - The Essence of Jewishness - posted 7/20/00

Three Languages - One People:  Ladino - posted 7/13/00

Three Languages - One People:  Hebrew - posted 7/9/00

Jewish Leadership = Jewish Education - posted 7/2/00

Jewish Women – Our Best Hope - posted 6/25/00

Judaism – The Thing that Binds Us Together - posted 6/11/00

Jews by Choice - posted 6/4/00

 

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