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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…
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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…
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Opinion 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”…
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Opinion 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….
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Opinion 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….
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion What Jobs?
The September headline read, “U.S. Created 128,000 Jobs in August as Wages Rose.” Translation: It’s time to rejoice — that is, until we take a good, hard look behind these figures. It turns out they’re quite misleading. Why? Consider a young lady who loses her job, in which she was earning about $30,000 a year….
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Opinion Consequences of Our Coarsening
In September 1982, in an article in Moment Magazine that was written and mailed before the events in Sabra and Shatila, I wrote the following words: “There are two kinds of Jews in the world… “There is the kind of Jew who detests war and violence, who believes that fighting is not ‘the Jewish way,’…
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Letters September 15, 2006
Jewish Life Booming In ‘Exurb’ of Irvine An August 25 article on Jewish life in suburban satellites of cities is quite deficient in regard to Irvine, Calif. (“‘Boom Burbs’ Filling Up on People, But Jewish Life Is Slow To Follow”). We’re proud to be one of the 10 fastest growing American cities, but we’re no…
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Opinion Effie’s Choice
Effie Eitam’s call for mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank would be lamentable at any time and place. Coming at a pivotal moment in Middle East diplomacy, fraught with new threats and new opportunities, such a statement by an influential Israeli lawmaker constitutes a singularly mischievous assault on decency. At the same…
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Opinion 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…
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