Opinion

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  Freed From the Slavery of Illness

  When the Plague Bags come out for our Seder, the toy frogs will have a place of honor at our table. We’ll call out the names of nine plagues instead of 10. This isn’t the first time I’ve tinkered with Passover, but it’s the most sacrilegious thing I’ve done. Up until now, the changes I’ve…

  By Cindy Hecht Suna

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• Opinion

  Okay, Fine, There Really Are No Good Jewish Men Out There

  I’ve been told over and over again that there are no good Jewish men out there. I’ve read it in Jewish newspapers, heard it at Jewish singles events and seen it on the Web. Usually when I read the “no good Jewish men” complaint, I get mad and sometimes even write letters to the editor…

  By David Seidman Apr 10, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Passover Lesson For the Palestinians

  On the first Thursday evening in March, there was great celebration in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets, shooting guns in the air, offering prayers of gratitude and handing out candy to local children. They weren’t celebrating a religious holiday or a sports championship. They were celebrating the vicious murder of eight boys…

  By Steven Nasatir Apr 10, 2008 | 3 min read

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  You Get the Politicians You Pay For

  It’s often said that the problem with Washington is that it isn’t run like a business. It actually is — the problem is that it’s run like Bear Stearns. Just consider the business of running elections. We’re a democracy, so this is supposed to be our core competency. If only we could make that claim….

  By Noam Neusner Apr 10, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Once We Were Strangers

  Every year at the first full moon of spring, on the 14th day of the biblical month of Nisan, Jews all around the world gather with their families to re-enact their ancestors’ flight from Egyptian slavery. Passover is the most familiar ritual on the Jewish calendar, bringing together Jews of every stripe, the devout and…

  Apr 10, 2008 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Sub-Prime Protections

  Hard on the heels of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that is rattling the world’s financial markets and threatening millions with homelessness, new troubles are brewing in the airline industry, one of the pillars of the economy. It’s getting to the point where flying is as risky as staying in your house. The mortgage crisis, alert…

  Apr 10, 2008 | 3 min read
• Letters

  April 18, 2008

  Both Clinton, Obama Reached Out in Pa. As one of the rabbis who attended separate meetings in Philadelphia earlier this month with Senator Hillary Clinton’s surrogates and those of Senator Barack Obama, I thought an April 11 article on how the campaigns are engaging the Pennsylvania rabbinical community was incomplete (“Obama Takes Campaign Into Pa….

  Apr 10, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  To Know the Full Meaning of Freedom

  Let’s assume that Assaf Wohl’s tongue was stuck firmly in his cheek when he proposed in the mass Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot April 4 that we should get rid of Passover. It’s “all about obsessive cleanliness and bad food,” Wohl wrote, calling it “an unbearable holiday.” Few American Jews will agree. Passover remains, here, the…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 8, 2008 | 4 min read
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  There’s No Good Way Out of Gaza

  Hamas-run Gaza now constitutes fully half of Israel’s, and the world’s, Palestinian problem — the more terrorist, Islamist and uncompromising half. Hamas threatens to torpedo any peace agreement the Olmert government reaches with the other half, the West Bank-based, Fatah-run Palestinian Authority. Rocket attacks from Gaza against neighboring Israeli towns and kibbutzim have become routine,…

  By Yossi Alpher Apr 3, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Flawed Act Will Not Solve Our Immigration Problems

  The House of Representatives is poised to ram through in the coming weeks a disastrous piece of legislation dubbed the “Save Act” that will imperil the ability of millions of Americans to work in this country and will waste countless more resources and money on a failed policy. As the disastrous failure of Congress to…

  By Gideon Aronoff Apr 3, 2008 | 3 min read
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  Stop Calling Me an ‘Ultra-Orthodox Jew’

  Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox Jew. “Ultra” — the modifier of choice for a press hawking its smudged cartography of Jewish religious life — has enjoyed a long, wearisome, dubious run, and it isn’t recusing itself from the discourse any time soon. The Jewish religious world occupies a bewilderingly disparate space, to be sure, but…

  By Abbott Katz Apr 3, 2008 | 3 min read