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  March 28, 2008

  Spitzer Disregarded the Health of His Family Eliot Spitzer’s actions were reprehensible not just for the immorality of it, nor simply because of the inherent hypocrisy of his public positions, but for an altogether different reason as well — one that opinion writer Alan Dershowitz missed entirely (“Spitzer Has Sinned, But It’s Our Sex Obsession…

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• Opinion

  Cry Out for the Fate of the Tibetan People

  Next month at Seder, we will recall how Egypt made the lives of the Children of Israel “bitter.” We will remember how “the children of Israel groaned… and cried out” and that “God heard their moaning.” But this week we heard the groaning of the Tibetan people. The Tibetans have no Seder, but they commemorate…

  By Rodger Kamenetz Mar 20, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Dumping On Our Descendants

  The Bible says that the sins of the parents will be punished on the children, yea unto the seventh generation. The “sins” we are committing are embodied in the ever-mounting debt that our generation is incurring that will have to be paid off by our kids and their kids and so on and on. The…

  By Gus Tyler Mar 19, 2008 | < 1 min read

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• Dan Perry How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood

  

• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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  Meanwhile, the War

  Meanwhile, the war. Iraq, that is, driven from the front pages by the economy, by the presidential campaign, by Eliot Spitzer, driven from public consciousness by all those plus the lies, the deceptions, most of all the pointlessness of thinking about it since President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the rest are plainly…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 19, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Wrong And Right Way Out

  The American economy is in trouble. It is not the first time. In the 1930s, the American economy sank into a depression. As a candidate for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt described the situation with “one third of the nation ill fed, ill clothed, ill-housed.” He took steps to revive the economy by creating jobs. They…

  By Gus Tyler Mar 17, 2008 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  The Stain of History on Austria’s Art

  This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a chronically unresolved chapter in Austria’s history: the restitution of artworks that were stolen from Austrian Jews and never returned to their rightful owners. The issue of…

  By Eric Frey Mar 13, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  Our Troops Need Reform Rabbis

  In 1916, at the age of 15 and just a decade after landing at Ellis Island, my father enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served with distinction for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. After graduating college, I, too, joined the service, taking a commission in the infantry. I served for 28 years, including…

  By Benjamin Abramowitz Mar 13, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  What Zionism Was Not Supposed To Be

  There was scarcely time to grieve before the event itself receded and the eight young men who were killed in the horrid attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva (as also those who were wounded) were transformed into symbols, and then from symbols into launching pads for all manner of political argument. It is almost always…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 13, 2008 | 4 min read
• Letters

  March 21, 2008

  Knesset Was Right To Enact Smoking Ban According to Israeli government statistics, smoking is responsible for 1,800 deaths in Israel every year (“Israelis Fume Over Smoking Ban on Army Bases,” February 29/March 7). That number far exceeds the 1,200 deaths claimed by terrorist attacks since the outbreak of first intifada. To stem the epidemic of…

  Mar 13, 2008 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Murder in the Yeshiva

  Last week’s terrorist attack on a religious seminary in Jerusalem was a crime against humanity, not an act of war under any civilized norm. No legitimate moral code can sanction the deliberate mass murder of civilians — to say nothing of students sitting in school, steeped in their studies. And this was no ordinary school….

  Mar 13, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Democrats’ Race To Lose

  The sharp racial division among Democratic primary voters in Mississippi this week serves as a stark reminder of the pitfalls that lie ahead for Democrats as they slog toward the November presidential election. African American voters gave Barack Obama fully 92% of their votes, while Hillary Clinton won no less than 70% of the white…

  Mar 13, 2008 | 2 min read