Actions that are seen as breaching the divide are loudly condemned and fought. It is believed that the success that the community has achieved is in some part due to the protection that the Establishment Clause provides. School vouchers are seen as a potential threat to that separation. Given the policy dilemmas presented by the potential costs and benefits of school vouchers, the CPO has sponsored these two opposing and thoughtful papers. Our mission at the CPO is to provide information, opinions and research that impact on the major policy debates and issues of importance to worldwide Jewry.
Jewish education is certainly such an issue.
We are grateful to Peter and Janine Lowy of Los Angeles for their generous support of the symposium on the topic of School Vouchers and Jewish Education at the University of Judaism of which these two papers were part. The problem of succession in the Arab world and its implications for the United States and Israel. In reading his piece, we believe readers will gain a fundamental introduction into the dynamics and dilemmas confronted in succession in each country and also into the common patterns that are shared. In the second paper in this monograph, Ehud Yaari, Arab affairs reporter for Israel Television Channel 1 and associate editor of the Jerusalem Report, deals at length with the changing nature of Arab society. This paper, entitled Implications of Succession for the Peace Process provides a valuable perspective on the changing role and power of various elites in Arab society and particularly into the emerging strength of business communities throughout the Arab world.