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  The Bible Is on Joe’s Side

  To whom does Joseph Lieberman owe his loyalty? To whom is the sole member of the newly created Connecticut for Lieberman party ultimately responsible? Lieberman has argued that he is staying in the race for Senate, despite the nearly universal condemnation he has received from the Democratic establishment, because he owes his allegiance to the…

  By Hal Lewis

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  Radical Visions of A New Middle East

  President Bush was not the first to introduce the term “new Middle East.” Shimon Peres preceded the American president by a decade. But Bush’s vision for a new Middle East — that aspiration to Arab reform and democracy that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was presumably referring to when, visiting Beirut at the height of…

  By Yossi Alpher Sep 9, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Call War-weakened Leaders To a Second Madrid Conference

  The fate of the Middle East, over which recent events in both Gaza and Lebanon cast a foreboding shadow, is dependent on five weak leaders. The nominal world leader, American President George Bush, has reached the nadir of his political standing at home and is very much afraid of the loss of his Republican majority…

  By Yossi Beilin Sep 9, 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 A US official just made history in the West Bank — did he imperil prospects for peace?

  

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

  

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  After the Dust of September 11 Has Settled

  Late last month, the New-York Historical Society opened a unique exhibition dedicated to the September 11 attacks, called “Elegy in the Dust.” The installation’s focal point is the Chelsea Jeans Memorial, a downtown retail store turned shrine filled with the ash-covered apparel that was on sale that tragic day. When I heard about “Elegy in…

  By Elizabeth Rosner Sep 9, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Nine-Eleven, Plus Five

  Next Monday, September 11, marks the fifth anniversary of the deadly attacks against New York and Washington that plunged the world into what we call the global war against terrorism. In a daring act of spectacular savagery, the terrorists of Al Qaeda struck at the heart of our culture and our civilization, seeking to throw…

  Sep 9, 2006 | 2 min read
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  Renewal in Elul

  Elul, the lunar month that precedes the Jewish New Year, is by tradition a time of reflection and self-accounting. It is the warm-up to the spiritually grueling Ten Days of Awe and Penitence that run from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. As we scrub our homes each year in the days before Passover, so we…

  Sep 9, 2006 | 2 min read
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  Pressure Russia To Reveal Looted Art’s Heritage

  Vladimir Putin, it seems, has finally gotten serious about stolen artworks. The theft reported last month of millions of dollars worth of objects from the Hermitage, the famed museum in St. Petersburg, has led to a frenzy of activity to inventory the artworks in Russia’s museums. On Putin’s order, the government set up an audit…

  By Marilyn Henry Sep 6, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Beware Government’s Creeping Censorship of Scientific Inquiry

  Since at least the end of World War II, the United States has arguably been the major center for advanced research in science and technology. This has been possible, at least in part, because many of the best and brightest students and scholars have come to study or carry out research at our world-class research…

  By Lawrence Krauss Sep 2, 2006 | 4 min read
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  European Force for Lebanon Is a Feeble Mission

  With European countries preparing to supply more than half of the 15,000 troops bound to keep the peace in southern Lebanon, the Old World is embarking on one of its biggest military endeavours since 1945. The Lebanon mission will formally be under the United Nations umbrella, but European leaders see it as a chance to…

  By Eric Frey Sep 2, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Regional Peace Requires Troops For Palestine

  ‘How can Israeli soldiers fight a 10-year-old boy who wants to die? Or a teenager at the wheel of an exploding truck, smiling because he knows that in 10 seconds he will be in Heaven? This is the generation I am afraid of!” These are the words not of an Israeli general warning of a…

  By Bernard Avishai Sep 2, 2006 | 5 min read
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  Consumer Demand Drove Adoption of Glatt Standard

  In an August 18 opinion article, Marc Shapiro takes the Orthodox Union to task for, over the last 30 years, having “adopted a new standard in kashrut, one that defines only glatt kosher as acceptable” (“glatt Kosher Meat Is Not All It Is Cut Out to Be”). The era that Shapiro laments as having passed,…

  By Menachem Genack Sep 2, 2006 | 3 min read