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The NSA, Just a Phone Call Away
There’s a small detail in the latest New York Times/CBS poll that President Bush apparently missed: “If George W. Bush,” the 1,241 respondents were asked, “supported a candidate for political office, would that make you more likely to vote for that candidate, less likely to vote for that candidate, or wouldn’t it affect how you…
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Letters Letter May 19, 2006
Survivors Will Fight On The Forward has sunk to new depths by attacking Holocaust survivors who have objected to being treated like third-class citizens (“At Long Last, Have You No Shame,” May 12). Perhaps out of the continued naiveté that our views mattered, several survivors met yet again with Judge Edward Korman and Special Master…
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Opinion Olmert’s Options
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s rookie prime minister, will find himself greeted by an unnerving torpor, an almost robotic unresponsiveness, when he arrives in Washington next week for his first official visit. He’ll be wined and dined, glad-handed and pumped for information about his plans, hopes and fears. But the smiles will have a blankness behind them….
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Opinion The Right Move on Immigration
The gloom in Washington was lifted briefly this week when the Senate, acting with rare bipartisanship — and a rarer show of enlightened leadership from President Bush — beat back a series of anti-immigrant amendments and voted to move forward on a comprehensive immigration reform package. The Senate’s package is a sensible compromise that combines…
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Opinion Next Time Invite American Olim Instead of A.B. Yehoshua
Earlier this month Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua created a tempest in a teapot by stating that one cannot live a fully Jewish life outside of Israel. As an American immigrant to Israel, I read with amusement and frustration about Yehoshua’s blast at the American Jewish Committee’s 100th anniversary conference and about the predictable indignation of…
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Opinion British Academic Boycott Is Just Blinkered Bigotry
Later this month Britain’s largest university and college lecturers union will vote on a motion recommending its 67,000 members boycott their Israeli counterparts and Israeli academic institutions. The move by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education is only the latest in a series of high-profile anti-Israel declarations and boycotts to emanate…
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Opinion At Long Last, Have You No Shame?
Seven years after the signing of the historic Swiss bank settlement, in which the Swiss banking industry agreed to give back money looted from Holocaust victims’ bank accounts, a handful of Florida-based Holocaust survivors and their hangers-on have filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court that could undermine the settlement and threaten the…
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Opinion Conversion Is Not An Outreach Strategy
For more than a decade, a group of Jewish communal leaders has been arguing that the challenge of intermarriage can only be met by a policy of converting non-Jewish partners. They cite statistics indicating that among children raised in interfaith families in which the non-Jewish partner has not converted, only a small minority identify as…
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Opinion Can Peretz Conquer General Skepticism?
How symbolic that Amir Peretz’s first act as Israeli defense minister was to approve an air strike that killed five Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. The dovish former labor union leader, turned instant hawk. His second act, though, was to begin lifting the most recent closure strangling the West Bank. More than any other job in…
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Opinion Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities
What is spirituality? For some, the word connotes the fantasies of the New Age, from harmless notions like astrology to dangerous ones like apocalyptic messianism. For others, the word means precisely the opposite: not seeing the imaginary, but seeing the real more clearly, from the stirrings of the heart to the infinitesimal miracles of everyday…
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Letters Letter May 12, 2006
Conservative Seminary Lacks Rabbinic Leader Opinion writer Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s comparison of Arnold Eisen, the newly appointed chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, to Solomon Schechter begs the question (“When a Scholar Became Chancellor,” May 5). Schechter possessed a profound understanding of Judaism in its rabbinic, theological formulation, as shown by his classic work, “Some…
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