Noam Neusner
By Noam Neusner
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Opinion The Dirty Truth About Being a Tourist in Israel
They tell you that you have to come to Israel. They tell you it will change your life. They tell you that with every other country, you can come and go as you please, but Israel, you can never really leave, because Israel will never leave you. That’s true, because Israel has really bad lice….
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Opinion How Much Immigration Is Too Much?
Arizona’s law requiring police officers to check the residency status of those they suspect of being illegal immigrants has drawn swift condemnation from a motley group, ranging from The Wall Street Journal to unions. National Jewish groups have also weighed in with statements blasting the law. But critics of the state’s law should think twice…
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Opinion The Grand Old Party’s Nor’easter
Last spring, when Arlen Specter defected to the Democratic Party, the Republicans didn’t only lose their party’s sole Jewish senator. They also lost one of only four remaining Northeastern Republicans in the Senate. The conventional wisdom at the time was that the GOP was quickly becoming the party of the South and “flyover country.” Democrats…
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Opinion Why Palin and Huckabee Dig Settlements
The Republican field for 2012 is beginning to stretch its legs. Not surprisingly, presidential hopefuls have started to define themselves by what they are not: Barack Obama. There are predictable swipes at Obama’s health care reform plan, his deficit spending, his climate-related regulations and his obsequious displays before foreign potentates. If you are looking to…
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Opinion The Wages of Liberal Guilt
‘Should” may be the most dangerous word in modern politics, because on its wings do some bad ideas fly. Take the case of the minimum wage. Slightly more than two years ago, the Democratic-led Congress voted for an increase in the minimum wage, from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour over three stages. This…
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Opinion The Conscience of a (Jewish) Conservative
Throughout my life, I’ve found that my co-religionists are astounded when they find out I’m a conservative. “What’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing as a Republican?” they ask, as if everything from Genesis through Kings II were somehow merely early drafts of the Democratic Party platform. Recently, the neoconservative eminence Norman Podhoretz turned…
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Opinion What if Rabbis Heed Obama’s High Holy Day Appeal?
In the hands of Obama the potter, American Jews are but clay. In his recent telephonic pep talk to a reported 1,000 American rabbis, the president invoked some of the most memorable (and theologically challenging) passages from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy to support his health policy agenda. He spoke about the new month of Elul,…
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Opinion Dear Bibi: How To Raise Israel’s Approval Ratings
**MEMO TO: **Prime Minister Bibi **FROM: **Wordsmith Noam RE: Crummy Numbers Mr. Prime Minister, You’ve seen the lousy numbers that came out recently on American attitudes toward Israel. According to surveys from the Israel Project, only 49% of Americans call themselves pro-Israel, down from 69% last September. It’s true that you’re not the prime minister…
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