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For America, a New Beginning
There is neither need nor reason to hold back. This is a moment for celebration. I set to the side for the moment, as I believe we are entitled to, the challenges that await president-elect Obama. I set to the side, as well, the challenges he put before us, the people, in his victory speech…
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Opinion Fires on the Nile, Dark Clouds Over Egypt
This year’s presidential campaign featured vigorous debate over American policy toward Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In contrast, Egypt, a longtime pillar of American foreign policy, has remained completely off the radar. This is worrying, because the Arab world’s most populous country will pose a daunting challenge to the next president. It has been 27…
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Opinion Jerusalem, Forgotten
Anyone coming to Jerusalem these days cannot help but notice the mayoral election campaign going on in the city. The buses carry images of the candidates alongside promises ranging from affordable housing to religious freedom — and, of course, the vow never to divide Jerusalem. This is all well and good, except that Jerusalem was…
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Opinion This Relationship Can Be Saved
Daniel Shek, a career diplomat who is the Israeli ambassador to France, stood before a highbrow audience assembled in New York’s elegant French Consulate on October 28 and diagnosed the complicated relationship that now defines his professional life. We don’t need historians or political scientists to describe the dynamic between Israel and Europe, he said….
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Opinion A Crisis of Confidence, and Much More
Four inaugurals ago, I attended the swearing-in ceremony of William Jefferson Clinton and Albert Gore. My sense, shared by many others, was that we were witness to the end of 24 bleak years in American political history, from Nixon through Carter, Reagan and George H.W. Bush. The next day, I wrote, “Rarely have such high…
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Letters November 7, 2008
Jewish Women Have ‘Down-Home Charm’ Your October 24 news article “Sarah Palin Hits a Nerve Among Jewish Women, But It’s a Raw One” argues that the “down-home charm that Palin projects in lieu of a focus on nuance or detail is particularly off-putting for many Jewish women, who are likely to be highly educated, urban,…
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Opinion The Socialism Smear
It was sheer desperation that made John McCain and his allies pull out the lethal weapons in the last days of the campaign and start calling Barack Obama a “socialist.” There’s no greater curse. They claimed Obama’s economic proposals — higher taxes for the rich, more aid for the poor, increased intervention in the markets…
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Opinion Obama Would Bring Out the Best in Us
At a time when America is facing great economic turmoil, we need a president who is steady, mature, responsible, thoughtful and clear-thinking. We need a president who is deliberate, not volatile. We also need a president who can inspire Americans to listen to their better angels — who understands that the hopes that unite us…
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Opinion McCain Offers Substantive Solutions
As we head into the final stretch of the presidential campaign, the challenges confronting the next president on the domestic front look dramatically different than they did just a few months ago when the Republicans and Democrats concluded their primaries. The summer months saw a painful spike in the cost of living for American families,…
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Opinion Amen to This Election
If you are one of the many millions of Americans eligible to vote before Election Day — and this year that amounts to about one-third the electorate — the long, contentious presidential campaign of 2008 may have already come to a close. For the rest of us, the end is near. Who will miss the…
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Opinion The Conference’s Bad Call
More than half a century ago, the heads of a dozen national Jewish organizations formed a loose forum to approach the federal government as a unified American Jewish voice on Israel and the Middle East. The initiative initially came from the Eisenhower administration, which hoped — in vain, it turned out — to minimize the…
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