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  A Storied Sports Club in Vienna Scores One for the History Books

  The Hakoah athletic club was founded by Viennese Jews in 1909 in reaction to a wave of antisemitism that kept Jews off of most regular sports teams. Hakoah grew to become one of the world’s largest amateur athletic clubs, even winning the Austrian soccer championship during the 1920s. The occupation of Austria by Nazi Germany…

  By Eric Frey

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• Opinion

  Enough Tridentine Mass Hysteria

  In this day and age, Jews should not be overreacting to Pope Benedict XVI’s revision of the Good Friday prayer calling for our people “to acknowledge Jesus Christ the Savior of all men.” A very small minority of Catholics saying these words in 2008 is very different in its threat to Jews than every Catholic…

  By Irwin Kula Feb 20, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Poor Are With Us, But Are We With the Poor?

  Different interpretations abound, but unexplained, there could hardly be a greater contrast than that between two sentences, one from the New Testament (Matthew 26:11), “The poor you will always have with you,” the other from Deuteronomy (15:4), “There will not be any poor among you.” Odds are that most people would accept the first of…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 20, 2008 | 4 min read

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• Letters

  February 22, 2008

  Reject Saudi’s Phrase Being of Greek extraction, I know that the etymology of Philologos can be “lover of reason,” so let’s proceed along those lines in discussing his February 1 column (“Rejecting the ‘Arab Jew’”). I agree that the term “Arab Jew” is a contradiction and cannot logically stand on its own. Perhaps the term…

  Feb 20, 2008 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Turning Back the Clock

  The best that can be said about the Vatican’s revival of the traditional prayer for the conversion of the Jews, the so-called Tridentine Mass, is that it is deeply disappointing. The medieval text, traditionally the centerpiece of the pre-Easter Good Friday ritual, inspired centuries of Jewish humiliation and suffering at the hands of inflamed Christian…

  Feb 15, 2008 | 4 min read
• Letters

  February 15, 2008

  Give Equal Opportunity Commission Its Due Opinion columnist Kathleen Peratis states that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission “is mentioned in the major media no more than a few times a year” (“Bring Civil Rights Enforcement Out of the Shadows ,” February 1). In fact, a LexisNexis search shows that the EEOC was mentioned 1,282…

  Feb 15, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Tom Lantos, a Patriot of Two Nations

  Tom Lantos was a loyal son to both his adopted home, the United States, and his native country, Hungary, even though the latter was, at one time, so painfully and tragically disloyal to him. As a young man, Lantos was forced to flee from here, and yet, his later relationship with Hungary was marked by…

  By Ferenc Gyurcsány Feb 13, 2008 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  It’s Time To Stand Up for the People of Sderot

  Last week the Israeli town of Sderot was once again subject to the inhumane violence of Palestinian terrorists. Rockets rained down on a children’s playground, injuring two young sisters and sending their mother into shock. Enough is enough. It’s time for the global community to stand up to Palestinian extremists and fight to protect the…

  By Scott Garrett Feb 13, 2008 | 2 min read
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  A Plea From the Pulpit for Balance

  A Web site affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) recently declared that “The Jewish community in the Diaspora must get a life.” It was wrong, and it was insulting, but I am more concerned about what lies behind the statement. There is a mindset even more wrong, and it is sadly growing among my fellow…

  By David Greenhaw Feb 13, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Plagued by the Widespread Virus of Doubt

  ‘Mom, today Naomi broke the Ten Commandments five times! She lied three times and stole two times.” That was our 6-year-old son Ezra’s prosecutorial summation of his 5-year-old sister’s activities, delivered to my wife Nika as the kids were being tucked in one recent evening. Nika reminded Ezra that tattling is also not nice, and…

  By David Klinghoffer Feb 13, 2008 | 4 min read
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  If the Health of the Nation Were Really an Issue

  By now, we’ve been told repeatedly that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the policies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. There’s really only one exception, and because it stands alone, the interviewers and the pundits keep coming back to it. That is, of course, the healthcare proposals that the two have put…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 12, 2008 | 4 min read