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  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

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• Opinion

  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

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• Alyssa Katz My summer plans prove it: The Jewish Catskills are alive and kicking

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil’ 

  

• Dan Perry The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot

  

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  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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  Israel Demolishes Illegal Structures in Post-1967 Areas, But Not the Ones You Think

  Pressure continues to mount on Israel to honor its commitments on West Bank settlement construction by dismantling illegally-built structures and halting new ones. It’s not going smoothly. The latest critic to pile on the Jewish state is Dorit Beinisch, chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court. Beinisch ripped into the Israeli Defense Ministry during an October…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 29, 2009 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Is Ivanka Trump Good for the Jews?

  In 1926, when writer Ellin Mackay, heiress to the Comstock Lode mining fortune, fell in love with famed Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin, her Catholic father raged that they would marry “over my dead body.” When the couple eloped, he disinherited his daughter. After their civil ceremony, Ellin Berlin was dropped from the social registry —…

  By Sylvia Barack Fishman Oct 28, 2009 | 4 min read
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  A Club That Won’t Have Israel as a Member

  Israelis no longer seem particularly excited by the prospect of normalization with their Arab neighbors. After all, relations with Egypt and Jordan remain cold after years of peace. Indeed, as we now mark the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, relations between the two countries are probably at their coldest ever….

  By Yossi Alpher Oct 28, 2009 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Feel of Revolution, But the Hour Is Late

  Where exactly — or even approximately — is “the center”? Is the center necessarily “the mainstream?” What if, instead of the conventional normal distribution — two dwindling slopes trailing off from a large hump between them — the distribution looks more like a “U,” with most people at either end and the middle nearly empty?…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 28, 2009 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Rips in the Peace Camp’s Big Tent

  The first national conference of J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby, convened October 25 in Washington, D.C., with all the understated reserve of a new iPhone launch or the christening of the Queen Mary. Gathered in a swank hotel a short walk from the White House, some 1,500 activists from across the country sat…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 28, 2009 | 3 min read