Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion Behind the Biden Flap
No, Virginia, they were not sitting around wondering how they could humiliate Vice President Joseph Biden or how they could wreck the U.S.-Israel relationship. If you think they were, you probably also believe that the Mossad assassination in Dubai was purposely planned to end as a fiasco. But the spark behind the Biden flap was…
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Opinion Pesach on My Mind
A friend, knowing how dense my Haggadah is — much of the traditional text, my own interpolations, sundry gems from here and there — asks whether by now I can’t just take for granted that the people at my Seder table know what needs to be known about slavery, about memory, about elements large and…
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Opinion The Jewish Mission: We Are Witnesses
With some hesitation, I confess: I am growing tired of tikkun olam. Oh no, I do not mean I am growing tired of efforts to mend the world’s many fractures. It is the words themselves, and not the associated actions, that have become altogether too common, too easy and, to be blunt about it, too…
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Opinion Our Jerusalem, Both Heavenly And Earthly
New Orleans was — is — the occasion. Suddenly, it becomes clear that a city can be not only a place but also an idea. The idea of post-Katrina New Orleans, in the aftermath of the Saints’ victory, in the aftermath of a remarkable mayoral election, is beguiling, even redemptive. Yet for the time being,…
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Opinion Im Tirtzu in Goldstone’s Footsteps
By and large, I resist conspiratorial explanation of events. Most often, coincidence governs; things that seem related have arrived together from different sources, and their togetherness is curious rather than significant. Now, however, I admit to alarm. We are witness to an escalating series of events that begin to feel cumulative, moving faster and faster…
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Opinion The Brothers Fein: Big Dreams and Baby Steps
In my family, we specialize. Ever since graduate school, the specialty of my older brother, Rashi, has been the economics of health care. He was an early and fervent advocate of single-payer national health insurance, and his expert knowledge and thoughtful approaches were widely sought and widely hailed. From time to rare time over the…
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Opinion What Haiti Requires of Us
And now Haiti. The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 — an earthquake under the ocean, generating a tidal wave that in some places was a hundred feet high — left 226,000 dead. In Haiti, it is too soon to know the final tally; too many bodies are still buried under the rubble. Current estimates are…
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Opinion A Specter Is Haunting Israel, Its Name Is Goldstone
Goldstone yes, Goldstone no, Goldstone yes and no, Goldstone here, Goldstone there, Goldstone everywhere. An exchange in Jerusalem the other week with a close observer of the Goldstone report: “I am so tired of talking about Goldstone.” “Me, too.” And then, for the better part of an hour, we talk about Goldstone. The day before,…
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