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  Put the Camp Back in Campus

  Is that our daughter laughing and sparkling in the middle of a group of folk dancing tweens? Yes. We remember that girl. This is the child we brought into the world 11 years ago. One minute she is the picture of disaffected way-too-cool-ness, and the next, bam, she is back, a happy pre-adolescent. What was…

  By Wayne L. Firestone

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  Redeeming Ishmael

  With Rosh Hashanah upon us, inaugurating 10 days of repentance dedicated to freeing ourselves of negative personal habits, it seems an appropriate time to ask if fundamentalist Islam can be freed from its most bloody and aggressive tendencies. Is the enmity between many Muslims and the West destined to remain a feature of world history…

  By David Klinghoffer Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
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  So My Son Can Choose for Himself

  The about-face was stunning for its suddenness. The same woman — let’s call her my wife — who had coolly arranged for my son’s ticket, icily orchestrated his passport, and calculatedly coordinated his luggage and international cell phone, this same woman, upon seeing him pass through the airport checkpoint that leads to the gate, opened…

  By Moshe Rosenberg Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read

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• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Netanyahu’s new Gaza plan is a disaster. But it contains a tiny kernel of wisdom

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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  Diary of An Office Rabbi

  As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the number of questions regarding my religion intensify and increase. No, I’m not ordained, nor studying theology, but at work, I’m often consulted as the “Office Rabbi.” Since I’m “out” at work about my religion, I’m regularly queried by Jews and non-Jews alike. It’s part of the new diversity openness in…

  By Nancy Brenner Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  10 Questions for George Allen

  Now that George Allen has ’fessed up to the truth of his origins, shedding the aspersion and joining the Dispersion, the voting public is entitled to a full accounting of the affair. Here are 10 questions that we believe the senator needs to answer: 1) Corned beef with Russian dressing: Kosher or kosher-style? 2) Christmas…

  By Sonny Goldreich Sep 23, 2006 | < 1 min read
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  He Who Is Fit To Judge

  Israel’s most significant Barak is not Ehud, the former prime minister, but, by a furlong, Aharon, until last week president of Israel’s Supreme Court. Widely respected in Israel and abroad, Aharon Barak’s imprint on the Israeli court, and thereby on Israeli society, is second to no other living Israeli. Essentially, Barak’s expansive vision of the…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  September 22, 2006

  Eitam Was Wrong, But So Were Gaza Expulsions A September 15 editorial terms Knesset member Effie Eitam’s call for the expulsion en masse of Palestinians from the West Bank as “lamentable” and a “mischievous assault on decency” (“Effie’s Choice”). I agree. Even Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the iconic nationalist Zionist, rejected the idea. In the now-famous 1923…

  Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
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  The Pope, Islam and History

  In the fall of 1776, as the newly independent American colonies set about drafting their individual state constitutions, a furious debate erupted over the rights of religious minorities. Preachers and populists warned that letting non-Protestants vote and hold public office, as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were urging, could result in “Jews, Turks and Infidels”…

  Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Curious, George

  There’s not much left to say about Virginia Senator George Allen and the strange twists in his reelection campaign. Already smarting from his use of an ethnic slur against a Democratic campaign aide, Allen was flummoxed this week when a journalist asked him about a recent Forward report that his mother was of Jewish origin….

  Sep 23, 2006 | < 1 min read
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  Multilateral Enrichment in Iran Is An Investment in Nonproliferation

  If the goal is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, the West needs to change course. Simply put, present Western policies are failing. During the last three years, the West has set the bar unrealistically high, asking for more Iranian sacrifices than are necessary to ensure that Tehran does not acquire nuclear weapons….

  By Geoffrey Forden and John Thomson Sep 15, 2006 | 6 min read
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  Speaking Out on Darfur Cannot Wait for a More Convenient Time

  Israel’s northern cities and towns need massive reconstruction aid to repair the widespread damage caused by a month of indiscriminate Hezbollah rocket attacks. Israelis whose lives were torn apart by the war are in need of financial and emotional assistance. And Jerusalem needs the political support of American Jews to ensure that Washington holds firm…

  By Steve Gutow Sep 15, 2006 | 3 min read