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Your Weekly Guide to the Best National Review Magazine Articles from the '50s, '60s, and '70s

This Week's Featured Issue: October 17, 1980

Oct. 17,1980

Please Enjoy the Following NR Articles . . .

How Should American Jews Vote?
By Jacob Neusner

The author, a religious studies professor at Brown, examines the political interests of Jews in America and concludes that they are no different from those of other Americans. That a conservative public policy best fits these interests is perhaps not surprising because "the Jews are ancient people, with long memories." Read the article here.

Fleet Street on Reagan
By Anthony Lejeune

This "Letter from London" reports on the British press's take on the 1980 American presidential elections. The papers all agreed that Carter was a disaster, but few had the foresight to predict a Reagan victory -- or that he would make a great president. Read the article here.

Prayer Education
By Michael Novak

From the "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" column, Michael Novak asks why sex education is considered laudable and necessary, but prayer, which "by its nature opens the human spirit and focuses it" is not to be taught. Read the column here.