David Klinghoffer
By David Klinghoffer
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News Orthodox Warrior Keeps Kosher on the Front Lines
Mikhail Ekshtut is a warrior. His mom is a worrier. So when the Air Force Reserve called Ekshtut up to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he had a problem. One of the relatively few Orthodox Jews in the American military, Technical Sergeant Ekshtut hesitated to commit an untruth. But he also guessed…
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Opinion Modern-day Disputations
One of the most haunting images in the Torah, found in this week’s parsha, casts a startling light on a question that’s roiling the Jewish religious world at this moment. The issue is interfaith dialogue. I know, I know, it’s one of the more sleep-inducing items on the official communal agenda. Those two words conjure…
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Opinion Our Lives Of Sarah
A black-clad young man interrogated my wife and me in the foyer of Istanbul’s Neve Shalom synagogue, exactly three years ago. I thought about our visit to Turkey when Neve Shalom and another synagogue a few miles away, Beth Israel, were bombed this past Shabbat during the crowded morning services. At least 25 died. I…
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Opinion Hold the Hugs For Evangelicals
I’ve long argued that we Jews need to stop regarding conservative Christians, especially evangelicals, as the “enemy” and to start thinking of them as allies. So I should be — and am — delighted at some of the recent evolutions of Jewish thinking on this subject. Yet what I know about history urges me to…
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Opinion Convergence on Commandments
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s long fight appears to be ending. Moore’s eight colleagues on the state Supreme Court, facing a federal court order and the prospect of $5,000-a-day fines, last week ordered the removal from the Alabama Judicial Building of a certain notorious 5,300-pound block of granite he had previously planted there. And what…
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Opinion A Passion for Censorship
Mel Gibson’s forthcoming movie, “The Passion,” will dramatize the death of Jesus, portraying certain Jews of his day as morally culpable. It is already being denounced as antisemitic. From the anti-defamation groups, you expect this — scaring us is how they raise money. But when a painstakingly careful scholar such as Paula Fredriksen promises that…
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Opinion Keep Taboo on Conversion to Christianity
On contemplating a Jew who has become a Christian, such as indicted corporate lawyer Mark Belnick, the sensation you get may be like being on a roller coaster that has begun its swooping drop from a great height, as if the bottom of your stomach had slid away. Featured in a recent front-page Wall Street…
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Opinion Scripting the Scriptures
Jewish officialdom — that small, cozy world of community leaders and other machers — is already getting agitated by Mel Gibson’s still-in-production Jesus movie. “The Passion” depicts the last 12 hours in the life of Christianity’s founder, and press reports suggest that it places blame for the man’s death firmly on Jewish shoulders. By making…
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