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  Newly Discovered Tunnel May Once Have Carried Dead Sea Scrolls

  Accounts released last month of a newly discovered Jerusalem tunnel state that the passage was the very one used by those fleeing Jerusalem during the siege of 70 C.E., as described by Josephus. However, Josephus identifies not one tunnel but an elaborate network of them. That said, this most recent discovery, and others like it,…

  By Norman Golb

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  Western Europe’s Reluctant Lurch Toward Bush on Iran

  When France’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, suggested last month that war may be the only way to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he sounded more like a Washington hawk than your typical French politician. Kouchner is not the only top European official who is changing his tune on Iran. The obstinacy of Iranian President…

  By Eric Frey Oct 24, 2007 | 3 min read
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  ‘Israel Lobby’ Writers Miss the Real Jewish Conflict

  Among the (many) things that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt get wrong in their controversial book, “The Israel Lobby,” is their characterization of the American Jewish community. According to their understanding, there’s a substantial contrast between the policies “the lobby” espouses and the more dovish views of the community at large. For the most part,…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 24, 2007 | 4 min read

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• 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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  Holier Than Thou

  Leaders of Israeli society are always welcome visitors on these shores. As representatives of the Jewish state, they speak for an elemental, transformative reality in the emotional and spiritual life of modern Jewry. That said, last week’s visit by the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, must be seen as the latest and…

  Oct 24, 2007 | 2 min read
• Letters

  October 19, 2007

  Archbishop Tutu’s Words Speak for Themselves An October 12 editorial argues that an examination of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s actual remarks shows that he said nothing about Israel being racist, that he did not compare Israel to Hitler and that he is not even remotely antisemitic (“The Tutu Heave-Ho”). But in fact, the full…

  Oct 19, 2007 | 5 min read
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  How Israel Thinks

  Israel’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, recently concluded that Syria is sincere in its offers to make peace with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The assessment was reported last week in the mass-circulation Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, based on sources within the Mossad. The Yediot report hasn’t received much attention,…

  Oct 19, 2007 | 3 min read
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  Coulter’s Indecency

  Ann Coulter, the clown princess of right-wing chatter, has always been a reassuring figure to liberals. The rubbish she spews forth — 9/11 widows “enjoy their husbands’ deaths,” liberals are “traitors,” John Edwards is a “faggot” — seems like a comforting reminder of America’s native tolerance and good sense. Like Archie Bunker, she airs our…

  Oct 18, 2007 | 2 min read
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  Create a ‘Bar Mitzvah’ for Black Boys

  Although I now spend most of the year in a Baltimore suburb, I return every year for a few months to New Haven, Conn., where I lived for 35 years. When I pick up the local paper, the New Haven Register, I am startled by how many local news stories are just like those in…

  By Paul Marx Oct 17, 2007 | 3 min read
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  When Democrats Become Instruments of God

  In a strange irony, it has come to be the case that only Democrats now speak up for giving a role to faith in governance. Stranger still, they get away with it — which prompts the question: Why? In the accepted vocabulary of liberalism, the word “theocracy” functions as a synonym for “Silence them!” The…

  By David Klinghoffer Oct 17, 2007 | 3 min read
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  Jew-Hatred Is on The Rise in the Land of Pogroms

  Even in a part of the world that gave us the word “pogrom,” the frequency of antisemitic violence in Ukraine in recent weeks has been striking. In just four days at the end of September, three separate attacks on Jews were reported in Sevastopol, Cherkassy and Zhitomir, capping a summer that featured at least three…

  By Nickolai Butkevich Oct 17, 2007 | 4 min read
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  Al Gore’s Gift of Life for Generations To Come

  Our quiz for the week: Who was Bertha von Suttner? Or Tobias Asser? Don’t know? Let’s try a couple of easier names: Wangari Maathai? Shirin Ebadi? Still stumped? Alright let’s make it easy: What do the four people I’ve mentioned so far have in common with Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jane Addams? Alright, then:…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 17, 2007 | 4 min read