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Letters
October 31, 2008
Feminists Don’t Speak For All of Us on Palin Your October 24 article “Sarah Palin Hits a Nerve Among Jewish Women, But It’s a Raw One” includes the opinion of Baila Olidort, editor of Lubavitch.org, who is quoted as saying that even though Palin’s “views are aligned quite well with traditional Jewish values,” she still…
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Opinion The Supreme Issue
No election in recent history has been more important to the future of our constitutional rights than the current presidential contest. Our next president will have enormous influence on the direction of the Supreme Court. The high court is currently divided into two wings: The right consists of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and…
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Opinion Haider May Be Dead, But His Legacy Lives On
Jörg Haider was one the most gifted European politicians of his generation. The far-right governor of Carinthia, who died in a car crash October 11 at the age of 58, pioneered a new and dangerous style of politics that shook up Austria’s political landscape and was widely copied across Europe. Even in death, however, his…
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Opinion In Berlin, Where the Past Is Present
The disposition — mine, at any rate — is to stop before each of the photographs of those who resisted, and were therefore murdered, and to read, word by word, the all too brief paragraph that conveys their story. Not, mind you, because the stories are either all that interesting or informative, but out of…
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Opinion Getting Beyond Bias
No doubt by now you’ve seen — or at least heard of — the video starring comedienne Sarah Silverman, in which she employs her trademark bawdy language and edgy humor on behalf of her favorite presidential candidate. That would be Senator Barack Obama or, as Silverman says, the “goodest person we’ve ever had as a…
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Opinion A Crisis Foreseen
A current of astonishment has been rippling through the American consciousness over the past few weeks, since our simmering mortgage crisis suddenly erupted into a full-fledged, category-5 worldwide economic calamity. For years, the drama has been unfolding before our uncomprehending eyes, from the first drop in home sales in 2005 through the cascading foreclosures and…
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Opinion The Specter of the Sixties
As a historian of the 1960s, I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle when I watch this year’s presidential campaign. John McCain has largely staked his candidacy on the hard lessons he learned during his ordeal in the Hanoi Hilton. McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, accuse Barack Obama of waving “the white…
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Letters October 17, 2008
Learn Some Lessons From Gaza Withdrawal The Forward’s October 10 editorial, “Ehud Olmert’s Parting Words Dared To Offer Painful Truth,” ignores the consequences of Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines. The people of Sderot and the western Negev have been suffering ever since Israel withdrew all its civilians, soldiers and military bases from Gaza in…
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Opinion Return to Durban
Over the past year, citizens around the globe have joined hands in a series of events celebrating the 60th anniversary of a historic milestone, the signing in December 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The treaty spelled out for the first time in history an agreed international standard by which governments may be…
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Opinion Who’s Sorry Now?
The seasons of the Jewish calendar have a way of surprising us, year after year, with their seeming relevance to life around us. Sometimes, though, the holidays have a bluntness that goes beyond poetry. It was in September 1998, on the eve of Yom Kippur, that Russia’s economy followed Thailand’s into meltdown and threatened global…
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Opinion McCain Would Restore America’s Standing
This year’s presidential campaign season has highlighted two very different approaches to issues such as Iran, Iraq, the peace process and our ongoing war on terror. Underlying the candidates’ Middle East policy differences are two divergent views regarding the sources of the regional rage aimed at America and, indeed, the entire West. The left’s explanations…
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