Opinion

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  On Campus, a Culture of Conformity

  It is a well-known fact that professors lean to the left. According to a recently released study by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, professors are more likely to identify as liberals than as conservatives by a ratio of 3-to-1. In the social sciences and humanities the figure is 5-to-1. These findings were not…

  By Gary A. Tobin

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• Opinion

  Rescue and Resistance

  Sixty-eight years ago this week, Adolf Hitler unleashed the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom. Savage mobs beat and murdered Jews, smashed their stores and burned down synagogues throughout Germany and Austria. My father, then 25, barely eluded this hurricane of destruction: He was on a boat just down river from Vienna, leading 550 Jewish refugees to safety….

  By Jeremy Ben-Ami Nov 11, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Ehud Olmert’s Amateur Defense

  One can’t entirely blame Ehud Olmert for feeling smug these days. He expanded his governing coalition, guaranteed that the 2007 budget will pass in the Knesset and stabilized his government after the tribulations of this summer’s war in Lebanon and in anticipation of the findings of the Winograd Commission investigating that war. And he did…

  By Yossi Alpher Nov 11, 2006 | 3 min read

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• Nora Berman Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?

  

• Dan Perry A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel

  

• Emily Tamkin Is Mamdani bad or good for Jews? Here’s how to tell

  

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  Piling Debt on Debt

  Once upon a time, the Republican Party prided itself on its businesslike way of running government — namely, pinching each penny and borrowing as little as possible. For years, the GOP regularly attacked the Democrats as the party of “tax and spend.” The Democrats were spendthrifts, while the GOP was thrifty. Now, as the Bush…

  By Gus Tyler Nov 11, 2006 | 2 min read
• 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…

  Nov 10, 2006 | 4 min read
• 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
• Opinion

  The Passing of Two Titans

  Just hours after Sigmund Strochlitz’s family rose from shiva to reenter the world of the living, Ben Meed died and trauma again reverberated through the survivor community. Two giants had fallen; their contributions were singular and monumental. Together they had done so much to advance the cause of remembrance. Their backgrounds and their experiences were…

  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
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  Lives Lost Amid the Slogans of a Time Long Ago

  Judy Clark is a 57-year-old Jewish woman who has a sweet face, wears a chai and laughs a lot. She is often (I am told) accompanied by a dog — a dog she is training to be a seeing-eye dog, part of the program “Puppies Behind Bars.” The bars are those of Bedford Hills Correctional…

  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