Opinion

• Letters

  November 10, 2006

  Study Exposes the Real Denominational Divide The study conducted by Steven M. Cohen described in your October 27 article “Orthodox See ‘Youth Advantage’” sharply defines the differences among the three major Jewish “denominations.” Its findings demonstrate that American Judaism does not consist of distinct religious streams among the laity as is true of Christianity and…

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• Opinion

  Behold, It Was Good

  In the end, Americans were simply fed up. They were tired of being lied to, tired of watching their country’s blood spilled pointlessly in the deserts and alleyways of Iraq, along with its fiscal sanity and its good name around the world. They were tired of the hypocrisy, of the posing, of the fakers who…

  Nov 10, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Road to Justice in Argentina Leads to Iran

  On July 18, 1994, the deadliest postwar terrorist attack against a Jewish target took place in Buenos Aires. The seven-story headquarters of the AMIA, the Argentine Jewish community’s central welfare body, was destroyed. Eighty-five people, Jews and non-Jews alike, were killed; hundreds were wounded. It followed in the wake of another deadly terrorist assault in…

  By David A. Harris Nov 3, 2006 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman There’s a shocking new report on civilian deaths in Gaza. If only it were accurate.

  

• Nora Berman Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?

  

• 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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  By Michael Berenbaum and Miles Lerman Nov 3, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  How To Put U.N. Rights Council Back on Track

  Seven months after the United Nations General Assembly created a Human Rights Council to replace the much-maligned Commission on Human Rights, the new council already has garnered a level of condemnation that its predecessor took decades to achieve. Much of this criticism is justified. The council has failed to take concrete action or even to…

  By Peggy Hicks Nov 3, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

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  By Kathleen Peratis Nov 3, 2006 | 5 min read
• Letters

  November 3rd, 2006

  Student Mag Doesn’t Shy From Tough Issues I am writing to express my disappointment at the Solelim Fund’s decision to reduce funding to New Voices magazine (“Student Magazine’s Funding Cut,” October 20). As an observant and engaged Jew, I care deeply about Israeli society and politics. Unfortunately, there are few publications that provide coverage of…

  Nov 3, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  How To Save the Planet

  Last Monday, a scant eight days before America’s critical midterm elections, the British government released a new report on global warming and its consequences that is being described — in Britain, at least — as the most thorough, authoritative study of the topic to date, and the most apocalyptic. Commissioned by the British Treasury, prepared…

  Nov 3, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Balfour’s Message

  This Thursday, November 2, marked the 89th anniversary of the historic Balfour Declaration, the British government statement that marked the first international recognition of the goals of Zionism. It was a simple letter, addressed from the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to a Jewish community leader, Lord Rothschild, expressing sympathy with the goal of…

  Nov 3, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The Lieberman Perplex

  By a curious coincidence of events and timing, America and Israel appear poised in the coming days to take big steps in opposite political directions: America to the left, Israel to the right. More curious still, the traumatic changes that are convulsing the political systems in both countries may be captured, at least symbolically, in…

  Oct 27, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Turkey’s Choice: Europe or Amnesia

  On October 12 Europe sent two powerful messages to Turkey about the way it should deal with the crimes of the past and the civil liberties of the present: The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize for literature to dissident Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, and the French National Assembly passed a bill making denial of…

  By Eric Frey Oct 27, 2006 | 4 min read