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WHERE IS SACHA?: Our columnist Yossi Alpher fields some odd questions from a strange character in Jerusalem. Read More

The Forward's 2008 Rabinics section
Prisoner Deal Scrambles Jewish State’s Politics
Voices From Right, Left, Security Establishment Pan Hezbollah Swap
As Israel awaited final word on its prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, the country was torn by an unusual debate reflecting the painful dilemma facing the government. Read more

A Severe Verdict That Didn’t Go Far Enough
Opinion
The conflict now known as the Second Lebanon War began two years ago, on July 12, 2006, and ended 34 days later, on August 14. On September 17, following weeks of intense public anger over the war’s inconclusive ending, the Israeli Cabinet appointed a five-member government commission of inquiry into the war’s conduct, known, after the name of its chairman, as the Winograd Commission. Read more
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A Vacation That Made History
artspicIn 1877 New York banker Joseph Seligman was refused admission to a Saratoga Springs hotel owned by Henry Hilton on the grounds that he was Jewish. A media firestorm ensued. Our Jenna Weissman Joselit looks back. Read more

Editorial
The Afghan Unraveling
July 2, 2008
Of all the strategically critical battle zones dotting our chaotic world, none presents a more depressing picture right now than Afghanistan. Depressing, that is, not because of what is happening there, but because of what is not happening. Afghanistan is not getting better. On the contrary. After more than six-and-a-half years of combat against primitively armed bands of Islamist militants, America and its allies are farther from victory than ever. In the place where America began its war on terror, terror is winning.

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