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  May 4, 2007

  View Greece’s Wartime History in Context I am perplexed by opinion writer Andrew Apostolou’s general assessment of Greece’s conscience (“Greece Must Acknowledge Its Complicity in the Shoah,” March 23). Though most of the historic data presented in the opinion article are true and correct, I believe it is superficial to isolate a part of history…

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• Opinion

  Israel’s Tough Medicine

  Watching the uproar in Jerusalem this week, following the release of the Winograd report on the conduct of last year’s Lebanon War, friends of Israel must be gripped with profound feelings of sadness and alarm — sadness at the degraded state of public leadership in the Jewish state, and alarm at the report’s gloomy depiction…

  May 4, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Stock Market Can Be Manipulated

  Almost daily, as stocks go up and stocks go down in our market, the stories of the reason why try to relate the vicissitudes on Wall Street to some current happening that is taking place in the United States or almost any other country in the world. But, without fail, the media relate what is…

  By Gus Tyler Apr 30, 2007 | 2 min read

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• Opinion

  Whither the Weather?

  It was Mark Twain who, many moons ago, said, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The almost universal assumption was that the quality of the weather was determined by forces beyond human control. That seemingly self-evident view is no longer held either by scientists or by the public according to…

  By Gus Tyler Apr 30, 2007 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  ‘Hatikva’ Regains Its Meaning in Neve Monosson

  It has become a tradition for me to celebrate Israeli Independence Day with my friends in Neve Monosson, not far from Ben-Gurion Airport. Neve Monosson was founded in 1953 by a group of airport employees supported by Efraim “Fred” Monosson, a wealthy raincoat manufacturer and a leading Zionist from Boston. It later became popular with…

  By Uri Dromi Apr 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Reporting for Duty With Britain’s Israel-hating Mob

  The first thing I did after I started working as a staff reporter at the London-based Jewish Chronicle was to join the National Union of Journalists. Those dependable union reps, I was told, would safeguard my every interest. Holding on to that belief has become rather hard, now that the organization I had considered my…

  By Nathan Jeffay Apr 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  C’est l’Economie, Stupide

  When Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative frontrunner in the French presidential elections, goes into the runoff with his socialist rival Ségolène Royal on May 6, he can count on strong support from the largest Jewish community in Western Europe. Many of France’s 600,000 Jews like Sarkozy’s outspoken (and somewhat un-French) support for Israel, but some are…

  By Eric Frey Apr 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Cease Citing Bible To Defend Bush’s Immigration Bill

  It would be virtually impossible to unearth a single statement by a mainstream American Jewish leader in support of President Bush’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act” that does not cite Leviticus 19. Citation of the passage is as ubiquitous as mainstream Jewish organizational support is monolithic in backing Bush’s bill and its provisions: exponentially increased immigration,…

  By Stephen Steinlight Apr 27, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Confessions of a Non-intact Jewish Male

  It used to be that the Jewish male’s early sacrifice of his foreskin was meant to prevent trichinosis. No, wait a minute: Preventing trichinosis was the purpose of avoiding pork. Circumcision had no parallel scientific rationalization. Its appeal (as distinguished from its status as commandment) was more aesthetic than scientific. Its aesthetic appeal was getting…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 27, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  May Day

  Springtime, the season of renewal, is a time of expectation and remembrance, a time for looking forward to nature’s rebirth, while thinking back on the winter just endured. We fill the season with holidays of hope and memory, mimicking the earth in its drama of reawakening: Passover, with its memories of exodus and promise of…

  Apr 27, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Mysteries of Moscow

  On the morning of August 19, 1991, Americans woke to the televised sight of an empire in meltdown. Tanks were converging on the Kremlin, seeking to reclaim Russia for communism. One man, Boris Yeltsin, climbed atop a tank and stopped the coup, and entered history. Yeltsin, who died this week at 76, was a complicated…

  Apr 27, 2007 | 2 min read