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  Moral Ambiguity and the CIA

  This week’s disclosure that the CIA helped to hide Adolf Eichmann’s tracks during the 1950s, contained in newly declassified documents from the National Archives, should generate anger, sadness, even revulsion — but not surprise. The postwar role of our intelligence agencies in ignoring, hiding and even recruiting ex-Nazis, in the name of fighting the Soviets,…

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  America the Feeble

  When President Bush arrives in Vienna on June 22 for the annual summit between the European Union and the United States, he will meet smiling politicians in the conference rooms and see angry-looking citizens on the streets. On the political level, European-American relations are perhaps the best they’ve been since Bush entered the White House:…

  By Eric Frey Jun 9, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Beating the Organ Donor Taboo

  More than 400,000 people living in the United States today are organ transplant recipients. These are people who, without the gift of life from others, would not have been given a second chance. Others are not so fortunate. Despite the improved success rates of transplants, an average of 6,200 people die each year because of…

  By Elaine Berg Jun 9, 2006 | 3 min read

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• 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 Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

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

  

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  Fighting Antisemitism With Theology

  During the Second Vatican Council discussions in Rome in the 1960s, Jewish leaders wanted the Catholic Church to make statements denouncing antisemitism, apologizing for the church’s role in the Holocaust and recognizing the State of Israel. The Catholics, however, were most interested in discussing God and Scripture. Jews talked politics, while Catholics talked theology. Eventually…

  By Eugene Korn Jun 9, 2006 | 3 min read
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  A Farewell to Dreams

  It might not be apparent at first glance, but something important has shifted in the Middle East in the past few weeks that could, with wisdom and luck, change the dynamic of Israeli-Palestinian relations for the better. For the first time in years, the top leaders on both sides have come out with forceful diplomatic…

  Jun 2, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Convergence Toward Peace

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s inaugural visit to Washington last week has brought out, in full force, the nattering nabobs of negativism. A host of critics, from former president Jimmy Carter on the left to former CIA chief James Woolsey on the right, are protesting that Olmert’s gambit to consolidate settlers behind Israel’s West Bank…

  By Gidon Remba Jun 2, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  June 2, 2006

  Scottish Church Shows Commitment to Peace Religion, at its purest, is the search not only for peace but also for truth. In a May 19 opinion article, Peter Kearney, national spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland, demonstrates a noble commitment to both (“British Academic Boycott Is Just Blinkered Bigotry”). By appreciating that defensive measures,…

  Jun 2, 2006 | 5 min read
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  British Jewry Turns 350 (Or So Goes the Myth)

  The British Jewish community is celebrating its 350th anniversary this year, just a year after America’s Jews observed three-and-a-half centuries in the country. This month a special service will be held at Britain’s oldest synagogue. In September, London’s Trafalgar Square will host a festival devoted to Jewish history and culture. The calendar is full of…

  By Eliane Glaser Jun 2, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Anti-sex Campaign Abstains Only From Scientific Truths

  To you and me, an ATM is a cash machine. To America’s religious conservatives, ATM stands for the “Abstinence ‘Til Marriage” pledge — and it, too, is a cash machine. The federal government funds abstinence-only programs in public schools to the tune of $165 million annually. If the Bush administration has its way on a…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jun 2, 2006 | 4 min read
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  History’s Paradoxes

  Eighty years ago, on May 25, 1926, Ukrainian folk hero Simon Petlura was shot to death in Paris. The assassination was planned and executed by Jewish folk hero Sholom Schwartzbard. Why bring up today these two opposing characters, whose peoples have lived together for hundreds of years? Just for the anniversary? And who were they,…

  By Boris Sandler Jun 2, 2006 | 2 min read
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  What If There Is a Partner?

  Last week’s statement by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, was the first time — the first time ever — that Palestinians have seized an imaginative and potentially constructive diplomatic initiative. Abbas gave Hamas 10 days, until June 4, to accept the specific proposals of what has come to be known as “the prisoners’…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 2, 2006 | 4 min read