Opinion

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  Pyongyang’s Big Bang

  In a season of deep gloom and dark fears, no recent news has stricken more terror into more hearts than the reports this week that North Korea had conducted its first nuclear weapons test. The reports remain unconfirmed, to be sure, and the size of the tremor suggests that the bomb, if that’s what it…

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• Opinion

  Hezbollah Will Rebuild Unless Borders Enforced

  Among the ruins of south Beirut, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah hailed a massive rally a few days ago. People jammed the streets to see him, crying out his name. In many Damascus shop windows, meanwhile, the rotund little sheik, often pictured hoisting high an AK-47 in homage to the Hezbollah logo, now enjoys pride of…

  By Tom Lantos Oct 7, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Who Says Europe Hasn’t Woken Up to Radical Islam?

  Europe is ringing these days with wake-up calls. Voices from the United States, Israel and certain European types are demanding a much tougher line on Islamic Jihadists, Middle Eastern terrorists and radical regimes like Iran. Europeans, these voices charge, is in denial about the deadly threat to Western values and civilization, or even worse, is…

  By Eric Frey Oct 7, 2006 | 4 min read

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• Dan Perry How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood

  

• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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  You Can Take the Jew Out of Jewish… But You Probably Wouldn’t

  What is the difference between saying that “so-and-so is a Jew” and that “so-and-so is Jewish?” An admittedly unscientific poll I took recently among 18 acquaintances reached a unanimous verdict; they always spoke of themselves as Jewish, not as Jews. Would “Jew” in the same context, they were then asked, be wrong or pejorative? Again…

  By Berel Lang Oct 7, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  George W. Bush’s Reign of Error

  A new poll reports that 71% of Iraqis want the United States out of Iraq within a year; half of them think that we should be out within six months. They want us, as President Bush might put it, to “cut and run.” But our president is nothing if not resolute. He means to stay…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 7, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  October 6, 2006

  What Does Allen Teach Us? The Forward editorializes, “We’ve seen a steady stream of public figures — Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, Tom Stoppard — confronted as adults with the hidden truth of their origins, and forced to absorb it in the glare of public attention. Most respond with thoughtfulness and grace. [George] Allen responded with…

  Oct 6, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Leadership Follies

  When all is said and done, the most shocking aspect of the Mark Foley congressional sex scandal now unfolding in Washington is that it’s not terribly surprising. It’s just another misadventure by politicians from the ruling party whose sordid deeds are poles apart from their self-righteous, moralizing blather. It’s another example of America’s political leaders…

  Oct 6, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Repentance and Regret

  It is September, and it is time for regret. A chill has entered the air, with a suddenness that never fails to surprise. We want to think that the warmth and ease of summer will last at least a bit longer, but it never does. We’re out of time. As Frank Sinatra used to sing,…

  Sep 29, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Outing the Jews

  In one sense, at least, Senator George Allen of Virginia reacted as any American Jew would do when he was confronted earlier this month, during a televised campaign debate, with questions about his reputed Jewish ancestry: He replied indignantly that it was nobody’s business. One could quibble (or, as it turned out, stir up a…

  Sep 29, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  GOP Slanders Dems With ‘Anti-Israel’ Ads

  Over the last month, the Republican Jewish Coalition has placed ads in Jewish newspapers across the country making the outrageous and ridiculous assertion that Democrats are “turning their backs on Israel.” At the same time, the accusation has been made by individuals who have sent out thousands of e-mails to all those in their inboxes….

  By Howard Berman Sep 29, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  I Would Trade All the Fair Coffee Beans in the Universe

  I am a coffee addict. I love the taste, crave the spreading warmth and am intoxicated by the aroma. Sometimes I think it is the last thing on earth I would willingly surrender. But when I take the first few sips of my coffee in the early morning, I imbibe something more than the freshly…

  By Nina Kampler Sep 29, 2006 | 4 min read