Opinion

• Opinion

  When a Society Fails Its Women

  Sexual harassment has been a favorite topic of late at dinner tables across Israel. How deep in a woman’s mouth and for how long should the tongue, in this case allegedly belonging to Justice Minister Haim Ramon, be in order to consider it a sexual offense? How many of the eight women making allegations against…

  By Yael Dayan

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• Opinion

  Turn to Sharia To Promote Human Rights in Muslim Countries

  In many Muslim countries, even those with ostensibly secular governments, some of the legal codes — especially family and personal status laws, laws regulating sex outside of marriage and laws of punishment — are enactments of Sharia, or Islamic law. Sharia-based laws are generally seen by the local population as not merely the law of…

  By Kathleen Peratis Sep 29, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Put the Camp Back in Campus

  Is that our daughter laughing and sparkling in the middle of a group of folk dancing tweens? Yes. We remember that girl. This is the child we brought into the world 11 years ago. One minute she is the picture of disaffected way-too-cool-ness, and the next, bam, she is back, a happy pre-adolescent. What was…

  By Wayne L. Firestone Sep 23, 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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  Redeeming Ishmael

  With Rosh Hashanah upon us, inaugurating 10 days of repentance dedicated to freeing ourselves of negative personal habits, it seems an appropriate time to ask if fundamentalist Islam can be freed from its most bloody and aggressive tendencies. Is the enmity between many Muslims and the West destined to remain a feature of world history…

  By David Klinghoffer Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  So My Son Can Choose for Himself

  The about-face was stunning for its suddenness. The same woman — let’s call her my wife — who had coolly arranged for my son’s ticket, icily orchestrated his passport, and calculatedly coordinated his luggage and international cell phone, this same woman, upon seeing him pass through the airport checkpoint that leads to the gate, opened…

  By Moshe Rosenberg Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Diary of An Office Rabbi

  As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the number of questions regarding my religion intensify and increase. No, I’m not ordained, nor studying theology, but at work, I’m often consulted as the “Office Rabbi.” Since I’m “out” at work about my religion, I’m regularly queried by Jews and non-Jews alike. It’s part of the new diversity openness in…

  By Nancy Brenner Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  10 Questions for George Allen

  Now that George Allen has ’fessed up to the truth of his origins, shedding the aspersion and joining the Dispersion, the voting public is entitled to a full accounting of the affair. Here are 10 questions that we believe the senator needs to answer: 1) Corned beef with Russian dressing: Kosher or kosher-style? 2) Christmas…

  By Sonny Goldreich Sep 23, 2006 | < 1 min read
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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…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
• 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…

  Sep 23, 2006 | 4 min read
• 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”…

  Sep 23, 2006 | 3 min read
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  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….

  Sep 23, 2006 | < 1 min read