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  April 27, 2007

  Shoah Is Taught in U.K. The British government and its citizens are anything but in fear of the facts when it comes to teaching about the Holocaust and the State of Israel (“Fear of Facts,” April 20). Teaching the Holocaust is mandatory in all secondary schools in the United Kingdom. Education Secretary Alan Johnson has…

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• Opinion

  Who’s Guilty For Mammoth China Trade Deficit?

  The U.S. trade deficit with China is a mammoth $232 billion. America’s top trade envoy, Susan C. Schwab, has declared that she will take steps to bring down that deficit. To do so, she will have to go after the parties who are responsible for that deficit. If she really intends to go after the…

  By Gus Tyler Apr 22, 2007 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Celebrating Israel at 59

  As Israel approaches its 59th anniversary of independence, marked this coming Monday according to the traditional calendar, there’s a distinct mood of solemnity — bordering on gloom — that’s taken root among those who hold Jewish statehood most dear. There’s a fear afoot, rising almost monthly, that Israel faces threats of ever-growing deadliness, that the…

  Apr 20, 2007 | 2 min read

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  The Dangers Are Great, But it Is Not 1938

  There is a growing debate within the American Jewish community about whether the external threats to the Jewish community worldwide are similar to those just before the outbreak of World War II. The challenges now facing world Jewry, however, are not remotely similar — because of the creation of the State of Israel, because of…

  By Stuart Eizenstat Apr 20, 2007 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  When Making Common Cause Has Ill Effects

  We in Israel’s liberal community often look abroad for support for our organizations from likeminded nongovernmental agencies. The challenge is that many of these foreign groups are so critical of Israel that to turn to them for aid for a particular cause can wreak havoc and even serve Israel’s enemies. It is a bind in…

  By David Forman Apr 20, 2007 | 3 min read
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  Defend Your Faith When It Is Blasphemed

  While the Jewish community is energetic about replying to perceived slurs against Jews or the State of Israel, we are remarkably passive when it comes to answering insults against our religion or our God. For example, best-selling atheist author Richard Dawkins mocks the God of the Hebrew Bible as “arguably the most unpleasant character in…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 20, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  On Serving Justice for Hair-raising Racism

  The current controversy swirling around shock-jock Don Imus’s crude description of the Rutgers University women’s basketball players as “nappy-headed hos” recalls an incident from another time when tightly curled hair — this time on the head of a Jewish music professor — played a dramatic, though ultimately minor, role in the struggle against segregation. This…

  By Lawrence Rubin Apr 20, 2007 | 3 min read
• Letters

  April 20, 2007

  New Envoy Will Leave Politics at Water’s Edge An April 13 (“Controversial Envoy to Belgium Vows More Campaign Giving”) article reports that Sam Fox “is vowing to continue donating to political candidates during his time in Brussels…. This decision… could prove contentious for Mr. Fox, given the tradition that ambassadors leave politics at the water’s…

  Apr 20, 2007 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Fear of Facts

  Earlier this month, just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day, the British government’s education department released a study reporting that classroom teachers were quietly ignoring the mandatory Holocaust education curriculum, fearful of offending their students’ cultural norms. According to the BBC, “some schools avoid teaching the Holocaust and other controversial” — yes, “controversial” — “history…

  Apr 20, 2007 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Gunfire

  This week’s horrific carnage on the campus of Virginia Tech has rekindled the perennial American debate on gun laws. The apparent shooter, a troubled youth, was able to walk into a store in Virginia and purchase a handgun over the counter, no questions asked. The same thing is possible in dozens of other states around…

  Apr 20, 2007 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Respond to Riyadh by Convening ‘Consultations’

  The smoke has cleared from last month’s Arab summit in Riyadh. The Arab peace initiative, originally ratified in 2002, has been reconfirmed without change. Saudi Arabia, newly-emergent as leader of the Arab world, refused to soften the refugee clause as Israel requested; nor did Saudi King Abdullah invite himself to Jerusalem to present his case,…

  By Yossi Alpher Apr 13, 2007 | 4 min read