Opinion

• Letters

  October 21, 2005

  Don’t Turn Communal Back on Jewish Felons I am very disappointed that no one in the Jewish community seems willing to help Barry Gibbs (“Out of Jail, Mob Fall Guy Pines for a Shul and Some Shellfish,” October 7). After all, we help Israel, Holocaust victims, Jewish arts and culture, Jewish education, hurricane and tsunami…

  5 min read
• Opinion

  A Poverty Of Leadership

  Here is a story. It is a story about what the media can accomplish and what intellectual curiosity in high places can produce, and how a crisis that is not an “Act of God” comes to be recognized and to galvanize a nation. In 1960, during his campaign for the presidency, John Kennedy visited the…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 14, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Miers Test

  It’s a sure sign of how low President Bush’s fortunes have sunk that the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, clearly intended as a deft feint to circumvent Senate mud-wrestling, is instead turning into a first-class political debacle. In its desperation to find some traction, however, the administration appears to have crossed a constitutional line…

  Oct 14, 2005 | 2 min read

Columnists View All

• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza

  

• Nora Berman The left is turning on AOC over Israel — and imperiling its own agenda

  

• 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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  Storming the Gates

  The baroque scenes that unfolded on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa over the last two weeks, described by Marc Perelman in his Page 1 report, seem as though they were lifted from some futuristic end-of-the-world movie epic rather than from today’s headlines. But they are real. In two separate assaults a week apart, hundreds…

  Oct 14, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The One-and-a-half-state Solution

  Anyone who has followed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent decades knows that mainstream thinking on both sides has evolved considerably, to a point where Jerusalem and Ramallah (and Washington, too) endorse a two-state solution. The advocates of Greater Israel or Greater Palestine — a single Israeli or Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the…

  By Yossi Alpher Oct 14, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  We the Individuals

  For a generation of American Jewish baby boomers who grew up looking east toward Zion from the West’s leafy suburbs, Israel has always come off as the poorer relation enduring scrappier circumstances. America had what Israel lacked: a Constitution, and good plumbing. American bathrooms were tidy and porcelain, with soft rolls of Charmin; the typical…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Oct 14, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  October 14, 2005

  Atone for Editorial Sin The October 7 pre-Yom Kippur editorial outlining the Forward’s regrets for journalistic sins committed this past year overlooked your most egregious misstep (“Begging Pardon”). I refer to the recent front-page nonstory about a gifted former educator’s personal struggle to come to terms with his sexual identity and his place in a…

  Oct 14, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Systematic Acts Of Kindness

  Perhaps the most moving prayer of the High Holiday services is the Unetaneh Tokef, the prayer in which we recite that on Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed and on Yom Kippur sealed “who shall live and who shall die, who in the fullness of time and who before his time,” who by water and who…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 7, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Great Civil War

  Last week, almost exactly 80 years after John Scopes went on trial in Tennessee for teaching Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in a schoolroom, a federal court in central Pennsylvania convened to revisit the same question: whether America wants its schoolchildren to learn modern science. The terms of the dispute have changed remarkably little in…

  Oct 7, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Begging Pardon

  Amid the grand pronouncements that newspapers regularly put forth on the issues of the day, it’s easy to lose sight of the things we leave unsaid, the people we overlook and the stories we leave untold — stories whose telling ultimately might have made the difference between the truth and the whole truth. The Forward…

  Oct 7, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Invite the Extended Jewish Family For Rosh Hashanah

  This is the time of year when many of us in the Jewish world take stock of ourselves as individuals by assessing our accomplishments, reflecting upon our shortcomings and determining how to lead a more balanced, productive and purposeful life in the coming year. It is also a time when we contemplate where we stand…

  By Lynn Schusterman Oct 7, 2005 | 3 min read