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Where Do Palestinians Stand?
In J. J. Goldberg’s September 23 article, “A Palestinian State Even the Securocrats Accept,” we are told that almost all of Israel’s high ranking and knowledgeable military and security people suggest that Israel should enter direct negotiations accepting final borders based on the 1967 line along with other issues in dispute: water rights, demilitarization, refugees…
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Madoff Campaign Leaves Victims Cold
After three years of silence, the wife and son of Bernard Madoff have gone public in a series of interviews intended to clear their names before a skeptical national audience. But the victims of Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme — many now embroiled in lawsuits of their own — would rather the former financier’s family have…
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Remembering Marla Gilson
In Washington, the value of people is all too often measured by how close they are to this senator or that one, or what office they hold in whichever administration is in power at the moment. Yet Marla Gilson wasn’t a senator, Cabinet secretary or billionaire. Completely down to earth, she was never wearing the…
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Exploring Ties Between Halacha and Shariah
Abraham and Isaac — or, as some would have it, Ibrahim and Ishmael — took center stage when a panel including Muslim imams and some of America’s most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis discussed their respective legal systems and foundational texts, and their implications for Jewish-Muslim relations today. The October 30 seminar “Ancient Texting” brought together…
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Scared and Hopeful Over Second Child
I am terrified of having a second child. There, I said it. Terrified. I’m totally breathless. I’m in a tailspin, a panic, a freak-out. Let me contextualize: I woke in the night, several times in recent weeks, panicking that I might be pregnant. My thoughts racing, I found myself staring at the ceiling — 2,…
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Top Cardinal Claims Jews Want Sainthood for Nazi-Era Pope
The Vatican’s new chief liaison to world Jewry met mixed reviews during his debut visit to the United States, thanks in part to statements on the pending canonization of Catholicism’s World War II-era pope. In what turned out to be a bumpy start, Cardinal Kurt Koch angered some Jewish and Christian leaders when he told…
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Marla Gilson, Longtime Force in D.C., Dies
Marla Gilson, a Capitol Hill presence for decades with stints working for Hadassah, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and several Democratic Party campaigns, has died. Gilson, who had acute leukemia, died Saturday after entering hospice. Last winter, hundreds of Gilson’s friends, colleagues and Jews who had heard about her illness registered as bone marrow…
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Crackdown on Child Sex Abuse Unravels
One of the most high-profile convictions of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi for sexual abuse in recent times may be in danger of reversal, according to new disclosures in court records obtained by the Forward. When Baruch Lebovits was sentenced last year to up to 32 years in jail, victims’ rights advocates hailed it as a turning…
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Late to Shul, On Time for Kiddush
My friend and I go to the same synagogue but almost never run into each other. “How come?” I was musing the other day. “Well,” she said. “I only go there to pray.” Aha! That explains it! When she’s walking out, I’m walking in. Yes, I’m one of those synagogue goers who arrive pretty much…
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Online Petition For Rubashkin Gains Steam
An all-out publicity effort has catapulted an online petition in support of jailed kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin to the top of a new White House-sponsored website that promises petitioners direct responses from the administration. Following a massive campaign that included robocalls, a video by Hasidic pop star Lipa Schmeltzer and public petition-signing stations for…
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British Scandal Linked to Pro-Israel Groups
The scandal that led to the recent resignation of Britain’s high-powered defense minister has laid bare a seamy underside to the funding and influencing of politicians in the United Kingdom, and the donors of some of the country’s key pro-Israel groups appear to be near the center of the affair. Liam Fox, who resigned his…
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