Opinion

• Opinion

  Why Must We Be the Loudest Drum-Beaters?

  It may be going too far to call Norman Podhoretz, the venerable editor at-large of Commentary, a “warmonger.” After all, his repeated call for the United States to bomb Iran would not, as he sees it, begin a new war; he has been arguing for some time now that we are already engaged in World…

  By Leonard Fein

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• Opinion

  When Will They Learn?

  The Democrats who won control of Congress last year, riding a national wave of disgust with the Bush presidency, are beginning to find themselves as helpless as the rest of the nation, and the world, in the face of President Bush’s implacable stubbornness. They have passed an increase in the S-CHIP children’s health program three…

  Nov 7, 2007 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Investigate This

  With the 2008 presidential season heating up and the Bush presidency slipping into its twilight, President Bush appears determined to draw bright lines to remind America where he stands. His eye on history, he means to leave his mark for posterity. Oddly, the place he’s chosen to make his stand is in the nation’s emergency…

  Nov 2, 2007 | 3 min read

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• 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)

  

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  Calling Our Ethiopian Ally to Account for Abuses

  American Jews stand at the forefront of the international campaign to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The coalition of conscience that the Jewish community helped build is pressuring Sudan’s patron, China, to put an end to the slaughter. Next door in Ethiopia, meanwhile, another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Ethiopian troops are burning villages inhabited…

  By Daniel Hemel Oct 31, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Fear Not ‘Islamo-Fascism,’ Nor Ahmadinejad

  Last week was Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, the brainchild of David Horowitz, conservative political gadfly and self-effacing founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Friends of mine and other writers I admire spoke on college campuses around the country, garnering impressive media coverage. The week was a big success, if measured by how much awareness of…

  By David Klinghoffer Oct 31, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Accepting a 73-Year-Old Invitation

  On one side of the faded but well-preserved invitation it is written that the groom’s parents “tienen el agrado de invitar a Usted”; on the other side the bride’s parents “hobn dem koved aykh ayntsulaydn” to the wedding of their children, Chanale and Baruch. The date of the nuptials: “el 1 de Diciembre de 1934,…

  By Steve North Oct 31, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  For Israel’s Sake, Replace Politics of Either/Or With Both/And

  Dualism is built into us — perhaps part of our neural make up, surely part of our cultural inheritance: light/dark, war/peace, hot/cold, wet/dry, joy/sorrow. Fortunately, we know that there’s a continuum between the antipodes, that things can sometimes be neither hot nor cold but simply lukewarm, neither wet nor dry but simply moist. And in…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 31, 2007 | 4 min read
• Letters

  November 2, 2007

  For Jerusalem’s Sake The letter sent last month by the Orthodox Union to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with regard to the possibility of his government ceding sections of Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority was not, as your editorial asserts, motivated by “anger and insecurity” (“Holier Than Thou,” October 26). Rather, it was a reflection…

  Oct 31, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  One People

  Reports from Jerusalem, where the Jewish Agency for Israel was holding its quarterly board meeting this past week, indicate a spike in tensions within the institution designated under Israeli law as the formal link between Israelis and their Diaspora Jewish cousins. A group of wealthy American philanthropists is reportedly threatening to cut off support to…

  Oct 31, 2007 | 3 min read
• Letters

  October 26, 2007

  I Say Pizze, You Say Pizzi As a long-time fan and admirer of Philologos, I am thrilled to have caught him on a minor inaccuracy (“One Bagel, Two Bagel?”, September 28). The plurals of Italian pizza and pasta are not pizzi and pasti, but pizze and paste. Being myself a very small-scale linguist of the…

  Oct 26, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Trial and Error

  A mistrial is not the same as an acquittal. Five men escaped conviction in Texas this week on federal charges of financing terrorism through a Muslim charity, but they were not found innocent. The jury failed to agree on a verdict, and the judge declared a mistrial. The government charged that the men’s charity, the…

  Oct 26, 2007 | 3 min read