Social Research Needs Strong Central Bodies I am not as convinced as opinion columnist Bethamie Horowitz that the outsourcing of research about critical areas of Jewish life to universities will prove to be a more effective way of gathering and organizing information necessary for the “ assessing the condition of America’s Jews” (“Social Research: Out…
The Case for Bolton The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has earned a reputation for being tough on nominees for the post of America’s representative to the United Nations (“Senate Probes Bolton’s Pro-Israel Efforts,” May 6). Richard Holbrooke’s nomination was held up because Holbrooke was said to be too “arrogant” and “nasty” for the U.N. post….
On Armenian Genocide Opinion writers Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold take Israel to task for not taking a stand on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 by Turkey (“Who Remembers the Armenians?” April 29). Why pick on Israel? How many nations have officially condemned Turkey for that massacre? Isn’t it being a trifle…
Review Lacks Context Of Ethiopians’ Rescue Arts & Culture writer Amir Shaviv ends his April 1 review of Steve Spector’s meticulously researched book on Operation Solomon by attacking the activists who put the issue of rescuing Ethiopian Jews on the agenda of world Jewry, and who put their own lives at risk to get the…
A Tale of Two GOPs Opinion writer Jeff Ballabon and I are both Jews, so how is it that we can both read the same news and come to diametrically opposed conclusions (“In the Name of Values, Not Politics,” April 8)? He writes that “The Republican Party is defending our Constitution and the rights of…
An Extraordinary Man, As Priest and as Pope Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel, once told me about a conversation he had with Pope John Paul II (“Pope Oversaw Big Changes in Catholic-Jewish Relation,” April 8). Lau told the pope of a story he had heard about a Polish woman bringing a…
Ugandan Government Is Failing Its People As a native of Acholiland, I highly commend the Forward for exposing the slow-motion genocide perpetuated in northern Uganda during the past 18 years by the Lord’s Resistance Army and the equally ruthless Ugandan national army (“Children Forced To Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War,” April 1)….
Revised ‘Passion’ Still Morally Irresponsible Mel Gibson still refuses to acknowledge what more than 100 biblical scholars and church leaders have said to him publicly: He is wrong in his presentation of responsibility for Christ’s death and is relaying the seeds of historic antisemitism in displaying it (“Less Gory ‘Passion’ Still Raises Hackles,” March 18)….
N.Y. Politician Wrong To Demonstrate in Gaza The visit by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and some 40 other Americans to offer support and solidarity to Gaza’s Jews reminds me, ironically, of the support and solidarity of the International Solidarity Movement for Gazan Palestinians (“U.S. Foes of Pullout Mobilize To Sink Plan,” March 11)….
‘Tug of War’ at Y.U. An Imagined Conflict The February 18 Viewpoint news analysis column posits that Yeshiva University President Richard “Joel stands at the center of a theological tug of war” between left and right at the university (“Y.U. Chief’s Quiet Gambit Creates Space for Change”). The Forward, however, omits reference to two innovative…
David Irving Responds In her gripping February 14 opinion article, Deborah Lipstadt shows that one reason she did not speak for three months during the British High Court trial of my libel action against her — a reticence that has puzzled many observers hitherto — was evidently because she was asleep (“60 Years Later, Dresden…
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