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  Spitzer Has Sinned, But It’s Our Sex Obsession That’s Criminal

  When Eliot Spitzer was my research assistant in the 1980s, he was a young man of great brilliance, high integrity, conservative demeanor and enormous promise. It pains me deeply to see him brought down so far, and so quickly, by private sexual misconduct. I think somewhat less of him now than I did before I…

  By Alan M. Dershowitz

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  The Sad Bad Story of Governor Spitzer

  “I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and that violates my — or any — sense of right and wrong,” Eliot Spitzer said. The obvious question is just why or how a highly intelligent man like Spitzer worked his way into such a situation. What follows is my own…

  By Gus Tyler Mar 12, 2008 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  U.N. Border Force May Be All That Can Stop Chaos in Gaza

  For months Israel has criticized Egypt’s inability to seal off its border with Gaza, and without a doubt the border has been penetrated by tunnels and smugglers. But as the Egyptian ambassador to Washington pointed out to me the other day, it is not an easy task to seal that border and, in fact, Israel…

  By Edward Walker Mar 6, 2008 | 4 min read

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

  

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  Is a Cheap Housekeeper Worth Your Principles?

  While the presidential contest between the eventual Democratic nominee and John McCain promises a political debate rich in contrasts, we will hear not one meaningful word of debate over what may be the most interesting and pervasive domestic policy challenge of our time: immigration. In a nation of roughly 300 million, close to 40 million…

  By Noam Neusner Mar 6, 2008 | 4 min read
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  America Is Walking Away From Fighting Hate in Europe

  A successful American initiative to train European police to respond to hate crimes is in danger — not from European nations, who have embraced the groundbreaking effort, but from the negligence of our own State Department. Five years ago, alarmed by a dramatic increase in violent antisemitic incidents, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in…

  By Andrew Baker Mar 6, 2008 | 3 min read
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  The Kids Are Alright

  Fears of American Jewry disappearing, drifting into a velvet oblivion of assimilation, have given rise to a cottage industry of research, outreach and alarm-ringing in recent years. Most of this activity is aimed at maintaining the loyalty of the next generation of Jews, to save them from vanishing from the fold. It’s a complex job;…

  Mar 6, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Let’s Make a Deal

  Of all the cruel ironies in the latest Israeli-Palestinian flare-up around Gaza, perhaps the oddest is the sight of Islamic militants stepping up their bombardment of Sderot and expanding their rockets’ range to reach major Israeli cities — and then accusing Israel of escalating the conflict when it shoots back. Israel’s response to the relentless…

  Mar 6, 2008 | 2 min read
• Letters

  March 14, 2008

  Rabbi Was No Mob Boss Contrary to Arts & Culture writer Allan Nadler’s description in a January 25 article, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin was an innovative and charismatic Hasidic leader in Russia and Galicia during the first half of the 19th century (“Righteous Indignation: How Are We To Understand the Alleged Spinka Scandal?”). During…

  Mar 6, 2008 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Why Do We Fawn Over John Hagee?

  Of politics, bedfellows and such: The dustup over evangelical Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement of Senator John McCain would not have attracted the attention it did had it not come in the wake of the Tim Russert-provoked controversy regarding Senator Barack Obama, the pastor of his church and Louis Farrakhan. In the aftermath of the revelation…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 3, 2008 | 4 min read
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  What Makes Nader Run?

  When Democrats discuss Ralph Nader’s new presidential bid, the conversation is usually studded with emphatic assertions of what the aging activist surely “must realize” and what he “couldn’t genuinely believe.” It seems as though liberals with memories of the 1960s and of Nader’s glory days as a consumer advocate can’t bring themselves to believe he…

  Feb 28, 2008 | 2 min read
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  Nader, Obama and Israel

  Ralph Nader’s imagined list of political unmentionables — the issues that he believes won’t be aired unless he runs — includes one item that might be described as missing from the current campaign debate: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Missing, that is, if “talking about” it means buying into Nader’s view that Israel is the aggressor nation….

  Feb 28, 2008 | < 1 min read