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  Letter May 5, 2006

  Hard Work Needed For A Good Job Anywhere I don’t know whether, as an April 28 article reports, more young Israelis have been leaving the country (“Israelis Park the Moving Truck and Head to the Mall”). All data are skewed, including the Israeli Democracy Institute’s finding that 7% of Israelis aged 15 to 18 do…

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• Opinion

  March of Living Must Embrace Life

  Each year in April, thousands of Jewish youngsters from Israel and the Diaspora make a pilgrimage to the sites of the Nazi death camps in Poland, to commemorate the millions murdered, to remember and never to forget. The March of the Living has become one of the most important international Jewish events, a practical implementation…

  By Tad Taube May 5, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  When a Scholar Became Chancellor

  Who is Arnold Eisen? Few of my colleagues in the Conservative rabbinate have ever met this Stanford University professor, who was named last month to replace Ismar Schorsch as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The appointment is sure to shape the character of the premier American institution of Jewish studies and the…

  By Elliot Cosgrove May 5, 2006 | 4 min read

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  It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid

  At a international conference last month in Almaty, Kazakhstan, leading Russian political scientist Igor Panarin explained American policy toward Iran as follows: “Everybody knows that the real reason for American belligerence is not the Iranian nuclear program, but the June 2004 decision by the Tehran government to launch an Iranian oil bourse where oil will…

  By Eric Frey May 5, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Let Darfurian Refugees in Israel Go

  As thousands, not a few of them Jews, assembled in Washington on Sunday on behalf of the victims of genocide in Darfur, more than a hundred Darfurian refugees languished in jails — in, of all places, Israel. As of the end of 2005, about 30 Sudanese had escaped persecution and violence in Darfur by fleeing…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 5, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  With Will The Kids Will Be

  It was the kids that got to me. (The kids, and George Clooney’s father.) I hadn’t planned to write about Darfur this week, or even to mention it. But this is not about Darfur; it’s about the kids. I don’t know the numbers, but they were plainly the vast majority of those who came to…

  By Leonard Fein May 5, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Memory, Mercy, Bureaucracy

  Of all the human and inhuman dramas to emerge from the Darfur crisis, none is more cruelly ironic than the fate of the 160 Sudanese refugees incarcerated in Israel as, of all things, security prisoners. They should be hosted as refugees, not locked up as enemies, but Israel’s famous bureaucracy can’t seem to tell the…

  May 5, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  What’s Good for General Motors

  During the roaring years of the post-World War II boom, when the American economy was running at super-speed to meet the needs of a crippled Europe and Japan as well as those of the folks at home, the president of General Motors Corporation, the nation’s largest, declared that what was “good for General Motors” was…

  By Gus Tyler Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Letter April 28, 2006

  Support Rally Instead Of Predicting Its Size Frankly, an April 21 article on the national rally called by the Save Darfur Coalition is a new one on me — critiquing the turnout at an event before it happens, deploring the absolutely unknown size of a rally because it is not likely to be as big…

  Apr 28, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Next Sunday, Bless Our Feet

  By now, most of us know the frightening word: Janjaweed, the government supported marauders who have killed somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000 villagers in the Darfur region of Sudan and chased another 2 million from their homes. It turns out that Janjaweed is a real word; it means “armed men on horses.” There was an…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  EDITOR’S NOTE

  Due to an inexplicable editor’s lapse, an editorial in last week’s print edition, “Mad Logic,” mistakenly stated that the April 11 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv had been carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and not by Islamic Jihad. In fact, it was Islamic Jihad, considered an Iranian client group, that claimed the deed….

  By J.J. Goldberg Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read