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  Repairing the World Has Torn Us From Our Senses

  ‘Give me the strength to change the things I can, the courage to accept the things I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.” This mantra has been reproduced ad nauseam on greeting cards and T-shirts, but it nevertheless provides a counterbalance to that other overexposed locution, tikkun olam. Literally “repairing the world,” tikkun…

  By Jeffry Mallow

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• Opinion

  Too Late for Peace, and Too Soon, Too

  They say it hasn’t been this hot here in Israel in 65 years. Where I am for a few days is Kibbutz Geva, in the Valley of Jezreel, not far from Nazareth and Afula, hardly the warmest place in Israel, yet here it reached 104 today. In this kind of heat everything feels suspended. One…

  By Leonard Fein Jul 3, 2007 | 4 min read
• Letters

  July 6, 2007

  Sleep-away Camps Offer Both Fun and Education When deciding to which camp to send their children, parents do not, as a June 27 article asserts, have to choose between a summer of sports, games and other enjoyable activities and a summer steeped in Jewish tradition and culture (“As Kids Head to Camp, Parents Ask If…

  Jul 3, 2007 | 4 min read

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• Dan Perry Israel’s new gift to the far right could help end the Gaza war

  

• Emily Tamkin Entering motherhood — and an obsession with the works of an Italian Jewish literary hero

  

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  Blind Justice

  The United States Supreme Court gave the nation a curious sort of birthday present on the eve of the July 4 holiday: an unintended opportunity for a piercing discussion of this nation’s fundamental values. In a weeklong flurry of eye-popping judicial activism and ideological triumphalism, the court shredded some basic legal doctrines and moral principles…

  Jul 3, 2007 | 5 min read
• Letters

  June 29, 2007

  Protest Boycott Decision As a professor of chemistry who has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Edinburgh and many other British universities, I strongly support Steven Weinberg’s refusal to lecture at Imperial College in protest of the British University and College Union’s recommendation to boycott Israeli universities (“Talk of British Boycott Silences Voice of Scientific…

  Jun 29, 2007 | 3 min read
• Letters

  Editor’s Note

  In response to several complaints about our June 8 story “Suburbia Sells Settlers on the West Bank,” we have checked further into the accuracy of our reporting for that article. Contrary to what we initially reported, the Kwalbrun home does not have “a Jacuzzi, a fireplace and a manicured lawn.” The sale price of Marc…

  Jun 29, 2007 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Let My People Go Up to Israel

  There is a Jewish conspiracy at work. It is not the one portrayed in the pernicious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It is not Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust hoax, or a Zionist plot to undermine Islam. Nor is it Jewish control of the media or the world economy as Jihadists, Ku Klux Klanners,…

  By David Chinitz Jun 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  A People Let Down Will Go Down

  In Israel, just about every immigrant has some kind of “family” that isn’t family, a generous soul or two who took them in and helped make a foreign land home. And so it was with me. My Ima was a powerful woman, of almost no height whatsoever but of bountiful girth. Born outside of Baghdad,…

  By Emily Hauser Jun 27, 2007 | 3 min read
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  Silence Won’t End British Boycotts

  Over the past three months, the movement to promote a boycott of Israel in the United Kingdom has had some alarming successes. In April, the National Union of Journalists voted to boycott all Israeli goods. In May, the University and College Union decided to promote an academic boycott. And last week, Unison, the biggest trade…

  By Miriam Shaviv Jun 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Is an Embryo a Person?

  President Bush, contrary to popular impression, is not opposed to the use of all stem cells in the treatment of patients. He is opposed to the use of embryonic stem cells. These are stem cells to be found in an embryo. This opposition is based on a belief that human life begins at conception. The…

  By Gus Tyler Jun 27, 2007 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Even Without Partners We Must Work Together

  ‘Peace? Of course we want peace. But we cannot have peace without a partner, and we have no partner.” We’ve all heard those words over and over again, perhaps even spoken them. Imagine, then, my shock at hearing them the other day from a West Bank Palestinian. Nor could there be any mistake: There was…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 27, 2007 | 4 min read