Opinion

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  Unto the Seventh Generation

  In order to kick-start the sluggish economy, the federal government has decided to spend billions of dollars on tax rebates — that is, giving out cash to the public. The expectation was that with their newly found dollars, families would start buying things at the stores, putting money into circulation and stirring companies to hire…

  By Gus Tyler

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  We Need Lots More Than the Holocaust

  Let’s talk about Jeremiah. Well, not exactly about Jeremiah, but about Jeremiah’s mindset — specifically, about the prophet’s punishing predictions regarding the future history of our people. What makes the matter pertinent just now is the controversy surrounding Pastor John Hagee. I wrote in this space recently, and quite critically, of Hagee’s “explanation” of the…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 5, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Letters

  June 13, 2008

  The Archdiocese Didn’t Take This Window I used to live at 3060 Hull Avenue in the Bronx, right next door to the Mosholu Jewish Center (“A Bronx Tale: What Did the Archdiocese Do With Those Stained-Glass Windows?” May 30). My family and I were members from the early 1940s up until it closed. Rabbi Hershel…

  Jun 5, 2008 | 3 min read

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• Dan Perry Israel’s strike in Qatar: An audacious bid for victory, or just another foolhardy provocation?

  

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

  

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  Delegates Behaving Badly

  John McCain’s pugnacious address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington this week may have given his presidential campaign a boost, but it ill served the pro-Israel lobbying organization that hosted him. As for the lobby, it didn’t do itself any favors with the hero’s reception it served up for the Arizona senator….

  Jun 5, 2008 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  Even the Scary and the Weird Have Rights

  This is not the column I expected to write this week. I expected to cluck-cluck about the shameful, officially sanctioned kidnapping of the more than 450 children from the compound of the Fundamentalist LDS church in El Dorado, Texas, and to compare the deprivation of their rights to Guantanamo Bay. I expected to decry the…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 29, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Peace Is Worth the Risk Of Withdrawing From the Golan

  About this time last year, the Israeli media was buzzing with gloomy predictions of an impending war with Syria. Come summer, they said, the northern front would be ablaze. That, of course, didn’t come to pass. Nowadays, the buzz is all about the awful possibility that Israel will give up the Golan Heights in return…

  By Martin van Creveld May 29, 2008 | 4 min read
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  A Few Old Jews

  “The fate of the world for the next four years,” a Florida rabbi said to The New York Times the other day. “It’s all going to boil down to a few old Jews in Century Village.” The rabbi was referring to the pitched battle for Jewish voter support that appears to be looming as the…

  May 29, 2008 | 3 min read
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  Avoid Repeat of Durban Hate-Fest By Convening an Alternate Summit

  The World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 was one of the most hate-filled, antisemitic, anti-Israel gatherings in recent memory. A follow-up conference has now been scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva. Though officially known as the Durban Review Conference, it’s been dubbed “Durban II,” and for good reason — it…

  By Bernie Farber May 29, 2008 | 3 min read
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  A Few Old Jews II

  Israel hit the world’s front pages in an unaccustomed role last week. For a change, the news wasn’t about Israel’s conflicts with its neighbors but rather its intimate bonds with the Jews of the Diaspora. According to current reports, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under furious pressure to quit his job because of his financial…

  May 29, 2008 | 2 min read
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  Our Hagee Problem Has Yet To Be Addressed

  By now, Pastor John Hagee has been revealed as a theological boor and John McCain has deftly, if belatedly, stepped away from the Hagee embrace he had earlier so assiduously sought and so gratefully welcomed. “Boor” is a rough word, I know. So let Hagee speak for himself: “It was the disobedience and rebellion of…

  By Leonard Fein May 29, 2008 | 4 min read
• Letters

  June 6, 2008

  What Zechariah Foresaw Yehezkel Dror’s May 23 opinion article was spot on target (“When Survival of the Jewish People Is at Stake, There’s No Place for Morals”). He correctly maintains that “if the threat is sufficiently grave, the use of weapons of mass destruction by Israel would be justified if likely to be necessary for…

  May 29, 2008 | 4 min read