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  Jewsh Terrorism: ‘You Can’t Blame an Entire (Religious) Community’ — ‘Yes We Can’

  There’s an interesting debate unfolding in the opinion section of Ynet, Yediot Ahronot’s Web site, over the role of religion and settler ideology in the alleged crimes of accused West Bank Jewish terrorist Jack Teitel. Some of it appears in translation on their English site, and some of it doesn’t, either by coincidence or because…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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• Opinion

  The Goldstone Standard

  Litmus tests are dangerous conveniences. We all have them, we all use them, perhaps thinking of them as our own personal “red lines”: Cross them, and you’re in the enemy camp. Be cruel to a child, oppose progressive taxation, make excuses for torture or for terrorism, deny the Holocaust or view Israel with contempt and…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 4, 2009 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  The World That Jewish Veterans Built

  Each year, as Veterans’ Day comes around, there are fewer and fewer Jewish veterans to observe it. Unfortunately, this does not reflect a peaceful age without wars. Rather, it stems from a dramatic decline in Jewish military service in the United States in the past half-century. Not that long ago, however, Jewish veterans were a…

  By Deborah Dash Moore Nov 4, 2009 | 3 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman There’s a shocking new report on civilian deaths in Gaza. If only it were accurate.

  

• Nora Berman Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?

  

• Dan Perry Israel is not deliberately killing journalists in Gaza. But it does bear responsibility for their deaths

  

• Emily Tamkin Trump’s attack on George Soros is ludicrous. It also endangers Jews (and everyone else)

  

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  What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t

  Jewish money. It’s the stuff of political myth, but it’s also the backbone of the pro-Israel lobby. One Jewish congressman recently said that voting against a resolution condemning the hateful diatribe of a follower of Louis Farrakhan on free speech grounds cost him $250,000 in political contributions from Jewish supporters that year. The incident has…

  By Douglas M. Bloomfield Nov 4, 2009 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?

  Move over Jewish day schools. There’s a new intermarriage panacea in town, and its name is Birthright Israel. A just-released study from a research team at Brandeis University led by Leonard Saxe found that 72% of married, non-Orthodox Birthright Israel participants have wedded fellow Jews, compared to just 46% of their peers who did not…

  By Paul Golin Nov 4, 2009 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Calming the Temple Mount

  On June 7, 1967, Moshe Dayan, Israel’s legendary defense minister, arrived at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which had been captured hours earlier by Israeli paratroopers. There he saw an Israeli flag unfurled over the Dome of the Rock. Dayan ordered the flag removed, establishing one of the most important principles of Israeli control over…

  By Daniel Seidemann Nov 4, 2009 | 3 min read
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  A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone

  Waves of shock and alarm have been rolling through Israel in the wake of the November 1 arraignment of a West Bank settler, Florida-born Yaacov “Jack” Teitel, on murder, assault and weapons charges stretching back over 12 years. Police and other officials call it the latest case of the elusive malady known as Jewish terrorism….

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 4, 2009 | 3 min read
• Letters

  November 13, 2009

  The U.S. Military Has Been Good to Jews Your story on the tragic loss of Captain Benjamin Sklaver in Afghanistan was significant on that basis alone, but it also brought up the issue of the relative dearth of Jews in our armed forces (“Officer’s Death Highlights Dearth of Jews in the Military,” October 23). I…

  Nov 4, 2009 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Gender Negotiations

  A nationwide poll released at the end of October sponsored by Time magazine and the Rockefeller Foundation probed what men and women think of their changing roles in society and attitudes toward each other as spouses, parents, bosses and co-workers, in light of the fact that women now comprise half of all workers, for the…

  Nov 4, 2009 | 4 min read
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  Somebody Is Stalking Me and Making Stuff Up

  My old buddy Jonathan Mark at the Jewish Week tipped me off this morning that I’m mentioned by name in an on-line Special Bulletin published yesterday (November 2) by Memri, the Middle East Media Research Institute. The bulletin features translated excerpts from a column about J-Street that was published the previous day in Al-Ittihad, a…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 3, 2009 | 3 min read
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  Goldstone v. House of Representatives: The Unending Inquiry Into the War Crimes Inquiry

  There could be trouble brewing for the congressional resolution (PDF), now circulating for signatures in the House, that condemns the United Nations’ Goldstone Report on alleged Israel and Hamas war crimes in Gaza. The House resolution, H.Res. 867, has collected 124 signatures so far for its appeal to the Obama administration to oppose any international…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 1, 2009 | 7 min read