Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion The Registry of What?
After a week of disappointing speeches at the United Nations, each – Obama, Abbas, Netanyahu – distinctly graceless, plus a debate of nine would-be Republican presidential nominees, including Doc Gingrich, Grumpy Ron Paul, Dopey Michelle Bachmann, Sneezy Santorum and Happy Herman Cain and five more dwarfs (but no Bashful), to say nothing of the slide…
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Opinion More Than Ever, Time To Remember Rabin
This year, for the first time since the first anniversary of that terrible night, there will be no rally in Tel Aviv to commemorate the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Dalia Rabin, the slain prime minister’s daughter and chair of the Rabin Center, announced the decision. Her explanation? Public interest is waning, and the costs of…
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Opinion When Tragedy Strikes, Nation Becomes Neighborhood
Prompted by the 9/11 commemoration, I turned to what I wrote several days after that terrible time. I don’t make a habit of reprinting myself, but these words seem to me particularly apposite. At 8 o’clock on the morning of this last June 3, less than two days after the suicide bombing of the Dolphinairum…
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Opinion The Israeli People, With a Capital ‘P,’ Demand Social Justice
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I was able to watch, in the comfort of my air-conditioned living room in Boston, the entire September 3 protest rally in Tel Aviv via a live stream provided by the Israeli news website, YNet. (By way of contrast, my Israeli friends, who were there in the flesh,…
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Opinion Hardliner and Tent City Leader Tell Tale of Two Israels
There is a man in Israel of whom you most likely have never heard, though he is among the noisiest people in the country. His name is Danny Danon. He’s 40 years old, has been in the Knesset for all of two years, yet serves as deputy speaker and chair of its Committee for Immigration,…
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Opinion Hard To Shut Out World’s Woes, Even for a Week
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to write an amusing column, one offering us all a much-needed diversion from the insistent grim news — violence, famine, unemployment, nastiness and all that — with which we are daily inundated. The trouble is, even the light-hearted stuff seems to be rooted in the downside. So, for…
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Opinion When Israel Takes a Good, Hard Look at Itself
Two new and quite spectacular websites have become available in the last several weeks. Both offer a mine of information on Israel’s social and economic condition, and anyone who wants to be an informed lover of Zion (rather than merely a starry-eyed cheerleader) would do well to spend some time with both. The first, and…
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Opinion Protest Movement Offers Hope for Israel’s Future
“The People demand social justice.” That’s the slogan, the chant of more than 300,000 people in dozens of sites across Israel. And just maybe, the State of Israel is now entering the third chapter of its history as independent. During the first chapter, which extends from Israel’s founding in 1948, to 1977, 29 years of…
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