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  May 9, 2008

  Hold China Accountable Opinion writers Antoine Halff and Shalom Solomon Ward question why China should bear the brunt of the Jewish community’s ire when India, Russia and Japan also import their share of oil from Sudan (“Enough Misguided Maligning of China,” May 2). But facts are facts. China is Sudan’s largest customer. According to records…

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  We Weren’t Always United by Indissoluble Bonds

  On June 1, some 100,000 people are expected to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israeli independence at the annual Israel Day Parade in New York. And over the course of this year, as many as 30,000 young American Jews will visit Israel through Birthright, a program created to strengthen Israeli-Diaspora relations, and thousands more will…

  By Michael Oren May 1, 2008 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  To Have an Impact, a Ban on Cluster Bombs Must Be Absolute

  A kind of miracle will take place May 19: The representatives of more than 100 countries will gather in Dublin to finish their negotiation of a treaty banning — banning! — the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs. This treaty process, called the Oslo Process, began last year when Norway invited countries serious…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 1, 2008 | 3 min read

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• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman A billionaire Gen Z influencer is reinventing philanthropy — with this South African rabbi’s help

  

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

  

• 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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  Israel’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Suddenly it’s Syria. Somewhere between a rumor and a demarche, there’s talk of peace. Turkey’s the broker; so far, Bashar Assad seems willing and Ehud Olmert seems eager. Never mind that we’ve seen this movie before, and that the same pesky details that doomed earlier efforts are likely to doom this one as well. (And…

  By Leonard Fein May 1, 2008 | 4 min read
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  I’d Rather Fight Than Switch

  Farewell, Forward readers. Owing to the tolerant and genuinely pluralistic editorship of J.J. Goldberg and Oren Rawls, I’ve had the privilege these past five years of speaking to this newspaper’s mostly liberal readership. I have done my best to articulate a religiously and politically conservative worldview rarely heard in the Jewish community. Now the time…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 30, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Al Qaeda’s Kindness

  Events in the Middle East frequently defy logic, but rarely is a development as unexpected as the recent broadside by Al Qaeda against Iran and its Shi’ite allies for — of all things — spreading the “lie” that Israel was responsible for the September 11 attacks. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy commander of Al Qaeda, made…

  Apr 24, 2008 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The Kadish Connection

  Americans slept safer in their beds last week after the FBI, in a daring raid on a New Jersey old-age home, nabbed an 84-year-old retiree accused of having spied for Israel a quarter-century ago. The suspect, Ben-Ami Kadish, a former engineer with the U.S. Army, reportedly confessed that he had checked out some 50 to…

  Apr 24, 2008 | 3 min read
• Letters

  May 2, 2008

  ‘Peoplehood’ Has Utility As a Descriptive Term The descriptor “peoplehood,” as a term purporting to collect all Jews under one umbrella, always seemed like a hopeful way of asserting that I have something in common with a Satmar Hasid in Kiryas Joel (“Peoplehood: There’s No There There,” April 25). Now Arts & Culture columnist Jay…

  Apr 24, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Enough Misguided Maligning of China

  It is fitting that Jews should speak up against injustice, whoever its victims may be, and rise to their defense. With a history that includes centuries of religious persecution, Hitler’s Final Solution and repeated assaults on the State of Israel, Jews have a special affinity for the victims of prejudice and genocidal violence. Lately, though,…

  By Antoine Halff and Shalom Solomon Wald Apr 24, 2008 | 4 min read
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  The Germans Got It Right With One Call

  My parents, both Holocaust survivors, were indignant that the German government dared to presume that it could offer monetary compensation for human lives and suffering, so they applied for no restitution payments. Over time, my parents’ moral rectitude about dealing with the devil was softened by economic necessity. They came across a display ad in…

  By Jackie Jacobs Apr 24, 2008 | 2 min read
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  With Synagogues in Jeopardy, It’s Time To Talk About Tithing

  After winning a record 74 consecutive games on the television game-show Jeopardy, Ken Jennings of Murray, Utah, tithed $2.5 million in prize money to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormons like Jennings, as well as Baptists and many people of other faiths, proudly tithe to their churches. But we Jews, we don’t…

  By Dennis Ross and Robert Evans Apr 24, 2008 | 4 min read