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  Sweden’s Jews

  Since 1980, Jackie Jakubowski has been the chief editor of Judisk Kronika, the “Jewish Chronicle,” a respected Jewish cultural magazine with stories about literature, theater, politics and the like, published six times a year and read by a sizable number of Sweden’s Jews. Having fled antisemitism in his native Poland, and having witnessed the mounting…

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  Defender of a Dream

  Of the many remarkable and laudable traits of the late Edward M. Kennedy, one stands out for us: his ability to understand those less fortunate and his desire to work tirelessly to improve their lives. On the surface, he had little in common with the poor and disabled, with African-Americans still stung by segregation, with…

  Aug 26, 2009 | 2 min read
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  A Lion Who Roared for the Least Fortunate

  There was no reason back then, none at all, to suppose that Edward Moore Kennedy — Teddy — would one day be thought not merely a distinguished United States senator but one of the all-time greats. In 1962, at the ripe age of 30, one brother the incumbent president, another the nation’s attorney general, Ted…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 26, 2009 | 3 min read

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  The Swedish Press Exposes the Invasion of the Jewish Body-snatchers

  Western culture reached a sort of a milestone August 17 with the publication in Sweden’s largest-circulation daily newspaper, the tabloid Aftonbladet, of an opinion essay suggesting that Israeli soldiers are killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Here’s how Yediot Ahronot sums up the fray. The writer, photojournalist Donald Bolstrom, didn’t exactly say that…

  By J.J. Goldberg Aug 21, 2009 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Which War To Tackle? ’48 or ’67?

  Does history matter? At first blush, the question is — well, to blush for. Obviously, history matters. July Fourth is history, and so is Pesach, and Simon Bolivar and the Great Depression and Galileo and on and endlessly on. Still, much depends on how we define words. I leave for another time discussion of what…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 19, 2009 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  First Sheikh Jarrah, Then Baka?

  Mike Huckabee recently made a virulently anti-Zionist remark — and the Jews who accompanied him on his tour of East Jerusalem cheered. “It concerns me when there are some in the United States who would want to tell Israel that it cannot allow people to live in their own country, wherever they want,” declared the…

  By Haim Watzman Aug 19, 2009 | 3 min read
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  Our Free Rider Problem

  In October 2007, I was invited to the third Professional Leaders Project ThinkTank. The conference took place in Santa Monica, Calif., where, as I recall, close to 200 young Jews were received warmly at a top-flight hotel with beautiful sushi spreads and told that we were the future leaders of American Jewry. It was the…

  By Ariel Beery Aug 19, 2009 | 3 min read
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  As America Focuses on Trivia, Congolese Die

  Given the gravity of her mission, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tour of Africa in early August should have been a rare teaching moment, focusing the world’s attention and its conscience on its poorest continent. Instead, it became an object lesson — mostly unlearned — in the tabloid trivialization of American news media. And, perhaps, in the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Aug 19, 2009 | 4 min read
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  Burma at a Crossroads

  The southeast Asian nation of Burma is one of the poorest, sickest, most oppressive places in the world. The military junta that has ruled ruthlessly for two decades has enriched itself with the country’s abundant natural resources, but left most of the population of about 56 million destitute. Burma’s health system is the second worst…

  Aug 19, 2009 | 3 min read
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  Generation Gap

  There was a time not long ago when the “generation gap” in American politics implied that young people didn’t know or care enough about what was best for the country, and as a result, didn’t vote or participate meaningfully in civic life. Now, when it comes to the ongoing struggle for health care reform, the…

  Aug 19, 2009 | 2 min read
• Letters

  August 28, 2009

  Sudan Still Needs the Jewish Community Your August 14 editorial “Save Sudan” explained in great nuance the complexities of the situation in Darfur. The Forward is correct in noting the importance of looking beyond semantics and recognizing the fact that, unless the comprehensive peace agreement between North and South Sudan is effectively implemented, the entire…

  Aug 19, 2009 | 2 min read