Opinion

• Letters

  December 21, 2007

  Bank Trivializes Suit A December 14 article on several Israeli banks allegedly conducting transactions that benefited Hamas appears to create the impression that there is a rough moral equivalence between their actions and those of the Arab Bank of Jordan (“Two Israeli Banks Accused of Sending Millions of Dollars to Hamas Entities”). The impression of…

  3 min read
• Opinion

  Joe-Bashing and the Jews

  Antisemitism on the Internet is nothing new. Neither are liberal attacks on Senator Joseph Lieberman, the hawkish former Democrat from Connecticut. It’s tempting, therefore, to pooh-pooh as same-old-same-old the odious Jew-bashing that popped up amid the mass Joe-bashing flooding the Web this week in the wake of Lieberman’s endorsement of Republican John McCain for president….

  Dec 21, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Case for Talking to Tehran

  Israel is in state of strategic paralysis. Its longstanding policy on Iran — depict Tehran as a global threat, pressure Washington to prevent Iran from going nuclear, and evade an American-Iranian dialogue — has been dealt a severe blow by the recently released National Intelligence Estimate. The Iran policy Israel has pursued to date must…

  By Trita Parsi Dec 19, 2007 | 5 min read

Columnists View All

• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman There’s a shocking new report on civilian deaths in Gaza. If only it were accurate.

  

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

  

• Dan Perry Israel is not deliberately killing journalists in Gaza. But it does bear responsibility for their deaths

  

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

  

The Latest

• Opinion

  Treat Jewish Students Like the Adults That They Are

  The decline of America’s independent Jewish student movement has entered its terminal stages. What was once a politically diverse coalition of student-run publications and activist groups has now been reduced to a few scattered vestiges, and the overarching ideal by which the student-run organizations were bound — the notion that the Jewish student has the…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Dec 19, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Will Mike Huckabee Face Up to His Views on Evolution?

  Mike Huckabee may very well win the Republican caucus in Iowa on January 3, but he will not be elected president next November. I say this based partly on my own subjective response as a Religious Right voter who appreciates the challenge the ex-governor and evangelical pastor poses to the rest of this campaign’s disappointing…

  By David Klinghoffer Dec 19, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Only ‘Presidential’ GOP Candidate

  Trust me on this. Do not, even in idle curiosity, look at the postings on The Huffington Post regarding Joseph Lieberman’s endorsement of John McCain. Or, if you disregard my very sober advice and do have a look, bear in mind that all the antisemitism and anti-Israelism you will see expressed there is all there…

  By Leonard Fein Dec 18, 2007 | 4 min read
• Letters

  December 14, 2007

  Emergent Communities Attract the Experienced One can scarcely begrudge opinion writer Shawn Landres his computer-infused enthusiasm for alternative emergent communities (“Breaking the Code of Ritual Observance,” December 7). However, a note of caution is in order. As a news article in the same issue indicates, such groups tend to attract Jews who have already had…

  Dec 14, 2007 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The Puzzle of Algiers

  Algiers, the city once synonymous with armed Arab insurgency, recaptured its status this week, if only for a moment, as a symbolic ground zero in the shadowy drama we call the war on terror. The grotesque carnage visited on the Algerian capital Tuesday morning — two simultaneous car bombs, close to 70 dead, most of…

  Dec 14, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Legislating Hate

  Congress failed an important test last week when it flubbed its latest effort to enact a new, stronger federal hate-crimes law. The measure would have given gays the same anti-bias protection enjoyed by blacks and Jews. Named for Matthew Shepard, a gay man beaten to death by bigots in Wyoming in 1998, it has been…

  Dec 14, 2007 | 3 min read
• 
  Opinion

  Teach Israeli Children Value of Democracy

  For all the talk about Israel facing an existential threat, be it from Iran or from Gaza, perhaps the biggest danger to the country is emanating from a place far closer to home. Israelis’ commitment to democratic values is on the decline: They are losing faith in rights, diversity and equality, according to a survey…

  By Dori Spivak and Melanie Takefman Dec 12, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Is the Outline of a Peace Deal Really All That Clear?

  ‘Truthfully,” Tony Blair said barely a month ago, “if you took any group of well-educated Israelis or Palestinians and said to them, describe on two sheets of paper the rough solution to the core final status issues — territory, right of return, Jerusalem — they could probably do it roughly along the same contours of…

  By Yossi Alpher Dec 12, 2007 | 4 min read