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  A Judgment Observed Does Not a Theocracy Make

  Some members of America’s political and cultural elite have been having a tough time lately distinguishing between the political philosophy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and that of our country’s religious conservatives. Ahmadinejad is a classic theocrat whose regime subjects his country to religious law. Can we say the same of a Christian like George…

  By David Klinghoffer

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  Glatt Kosher Meat Is Not All It Is Cut Out To Be

  Due in no small part to the recent controversy at the AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, there has been a lot of talk of late about how glatt kosher meat is produced. Yet for all the sensational headlines about whether the standards of kashrut are being met, little attention has been paid to how those…

  By Marc Shapiro Aug 18, 2006 | 5 min read
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  A Word Liberals Dare Not Speak

  What is it about the left that causes such instinctive antipathy toward Israel? It wasn’t always that way. Years back, Israel was in fact a favorite of the left, the more so of what I will call here left-liberals. What happened? Has the left changed? Or has Israel? Or have both? Of course Israel has…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 18, 2006 | 3 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 I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

  

• 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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  Time To Change the Tune

  As Israelis began trying this week to make sense of their bruising five-week war in Lebanon, discussion has returned again and again to the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973. Then as now, Israel’s vaunted military machine was caught with its pants down, locked into a strategic concept — static defense lines then, air dominance…

  Aug 18, 2006 | 5 min read
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  Waiting for the Hurricane Of Anti-Israel Racism To Blow Over

  Sooner or later the current war in Lebanon will come to an end. Israel will survive, lick its wounds, recharge its diminished energies and return, with revitalized enthusiasm, to its television shows and vacations. Hezbollah probably will have suffered some damage, and Israel perhaps will have been able to buy itself a fake, temporary peace,…

  By Oz Almog Aug 11, 2006 | 4 min read
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  International Force Can Keep Peace Only When Both Sides Are Committed

  Of the more than 50 international peacekeeping forces established or authorized by the United Nations since its inception, half a dozen have patrolled Israel’s borders with its Arab neighbors. Before another international force comes into existence and is deployed in southern Lebanon, it might be helpful to inquire what has made for the handful of…

  By Yossi Alpher Aug 11, 2006 | 4 min read
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  A Mandate To Rescue Evidence of the Shoah

  Edwin Black’s August 4 opinion article puts him seemingly at odds with the world’s leading Holocaust scholars, most of whom have taken advantage of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s research center and its open access research policy (“History Demands an Uncompromised Home for Shoah Archive”). It would go without saying, were it not for…

  By Sara Bloomfield Aug 11, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Who Will Send Troops To Save Darfur?

  Last week the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, proposed sending a 24,000-strong peacekeeping force to Darfur and called for international efforts to secure the Sudanese government’s consent to the plan. However, he knows full well that U.N. member states are unlikely to deploy troops to Sudan without the Sudanese government’s consent. The situation, in…

  By Evan Goldstein Aug 11, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Was There Really No Other Way?

  According to all reports, synagogues in America were unusually well-attended this Tisha B’Av, which fell this year on August 3. It’s the day on which Jews — some, anyway — remember to mourn the destruction of the First Temple, and then, according to the tradition, a number of other calamities that befell our people through…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 11, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Recovery and Hope

  A great deal has been lost in this summer of fear and death, much of it irretrievably. Hundreds of innocent Israelis and Lebanese have lost their lives; thousands more have lost limbs, loved ones, homes, a livelihood. Millions of others around the world have lost something very nearly as precious: hope. As Oz Almog, the…

  Aug 11, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Drawing Lines

  As the national media focus on Connecticut and on Senator Joseph Lieberman’s defeat in the Democratic primary Tuesday, another important political drama is unfolding in Tennessee’s ninth congressional district. State Senator Steve Cohen beat out a crowded Democratic primary field last week to secure the party’s nomination in the race to replace Rep. Harold Ford…

  Aug 11, 2006 | 2 min read