Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion A Field That No Longer Fits in One Room
Seriously, how much do you know about sea narratives by Hasidim and their opponents? Were you not listening that day? Surreptitiously texting? Did you perhaps grow up in Syracuse, which is not near the sea and which has had more than 70 inches of snow already this season? That, dear friend, is no excuse: Just…
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Opinion Roger Cohen’s Recklessness
Roger Cohen, a New York Times Op-Ed columnist, is not obsessed with Israel; it only seems that way. During the last 10 weeks, only(!) five of his Times columns have dealt directly with Israel. I admit that I share the obsession, but not the places it takes him. In his column on December 10, for…
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Opinion Who by Fire?
Who before their time, indeed. Nothing is more painful, more devastating, than the absurdly untimely death of the young, here compounded by the realization that they died knowingly, terror their companion, as the incineration engulfed them. May their memory be for a blessing. And what can we learn from this disaster? The uplifting part, of…
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Opinion Parsing a Palestinian Poll on Peace, With Prejudice
What’s in a name — or, in the case at hand, in a headline? Well, if you’re the Zionist Organization of America, what’s in your headline is whatever distortion of the data you’re discussing that you think you can get away with. Case in point: On November 11, the ZOA released a statement intended to…
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Opinion Thankful That the Pilgrims Didn’t Shoot a Wild Boar
Erev Thanksgiving, and I am as every year dazzled by how very Jewish this holiday is — in its way, every bit as Jewish as Hanukkah, now just days away. Think on it: Suppose the Pilgrims had bumped into a wild boar instead of encountering a turkey. Thanksgiving’s centerpiece would be on oinker rather than…
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Opinion Occupation Is the Issue; BDS Is a Distraction
In case you haven’t noticed, the sky is falling. Yes, again. This time it’s the imminent danger of the Global BDS movement. BDS: Boycott, divestment, sanctions. Soon, we’re told, very soon, Israel will be crippled, its economy in ruins, its legitimacy destroyed. Accordingly, a mobilization to oppose the Global BDS movement is now the highest…
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Opinion Critical Thinking Isn’t ‘Delegitimizing’
One may be forgiven for supposing — or, at least, hoping — that the tradition of infantilizing the American Jewish community would by now be the exception rather than the rule. If nothing else, at least the explosive rise of J Street might have tilted the balance of communal conversation in the direction of sober…
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Opinion Yes, The World Can Be With Us
On the same day the press first reported on the failed attempt to dispatch explosives to two Chicago synagogues, The New York Times carried a brief and disturbing [report][1] on an altercation between the popular Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany and the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). Al Aswany, a voluble man in…
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