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The Goldstone Standard

By Leonard Fein

Litmus tests are dangerous conveniences. We all have them, we all use them, perhaps thinking of them as our own personal “red lines”: Cross them, and you’re in the enemy camp. Be cruel to a child, oppose progressive taxation, make excuses for torture or for terrorism, deny the Holocaust or view Israel with contempt and you have crossed mine, you are on the other side. These single factors are for me decisive, and that’s the standard definition of a litmus test.Read More

The World That Jewish Veterans Built

By Deborah Dash Moore

Each year, as Veterans’ Day comes around, there are fewer and fewer Jewish veterans to observe it. Unfortunately, this does not reflect a peaceful age without wars. Rather, it stems from a dramatic decline in Jewish military service in the United States in the past half-century.Read More

What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t

By Douglas M. Bloomfield

Jewish money. It’s the stuff of political myth, but it’s also the backbone of the pro-Israel lobby.Read More

Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?

By Paul Golin

Move over Jewish day schools. There’s a new intermarriage panacea in town, and its name is Birthright Israel.Read More

Calming the Temple Mount

By Daniel Seidemann

On June 7, 1967, Moshe Dayan, Israel’s legendary defense minister, arrived at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which had been captured hours earlier by Israeli paratroopers. There he saw an Israeli flag unfurled over the Dome of the Rock. Dayan ordered the flag removed, establishing one of the most important principles of Israeli control over Islamic and Arab holy sites: Israel would display self-restraint, respecting the autonomy of Muslim authorities in this realm.Read More

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