Opinion

• 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

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• Opinion

  Deeper Than We Know

  Mainstream America was exposed to a telling bit of Israel-Diaspora psychodrama the other night when our favorite American Jewish Everyman, television jokester Jon Stewart, hosted former Israeli spymaster Efraim Halevy for a chat about Halevy’s new memoir. Stewart, who makes his Jewishness and his liberalism regular parts of his ongoing shtick, showed an almost puppylike…

  Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Jerusalem, the Eternal and Divisible Capital

  Last week, the Israeli government revoked the East Jerusalem residency rights of four Hamas parliamentarians, in response to the Palestinian government’s refusal to denounce a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The next day, Israel’s High Court ruled in favor of completing the separation wall surrounding Jerusalem. Taken together, the two decisions illustrate the degree to…

  By David Newman Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read

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  A Public Intellectual Passes Away, But Not His Legacy

  The death of Arthur Hertzberg last week marks more than the passing of a great American Jewish personality. It reminds us of the rarity of a figure like Hertzberg, who paid little heed to the boundaries separating academic scholarship, rabbinic service, social activism and Jewish diplomacy. Indeed, his death harks back to an era in…

  By David Myers and Michael Berenbaum Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Politics By Other Means

  It all sounds so depressingly familiar: We are giving diplomacy a chance, any suggestion that we are preparing for military action is “wild speculation” — but, at the same time, Iran represents a grave threat to world peace and is a haven for terrorism. Wait too long, and it will have nuclear weapons, international inspection…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 21, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Rise Up and Remember

  On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, a group of young Polish Jews, members of socialist and Zionist youth groups, launched an armed uprising against the German troops that were massing to liquidate the surviving residents of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a mad, hopeless act of desperation and defiance: fewer than 600 teenagers, armed with…

  Apr 21, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Mad Logic

  This week’s deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv is a crime against humanity and a reminder of the threat Israelis face every day. Nothing more should need saying, except that people of good will everywhere share the grief of the stricken. Considered in the context of the week’s other headlines, however, the bombing is much…

  Apr 21, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Jewish Education Needs A Copernican Revolution

  Today we live in a world where choice reigns, where mass customization is expected and where learners are increasingly in charge of their own learning. For Jewish education in America, confronting this reality demands nothing less than a radical Copernican-style revolution, one that places the learner — not the provider, the program or even the…

  By Jonathan Woocher Apr 21, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Seed Is Planted in the Land of Israel

  Recently, my youngest daughter and her boyfriend of several years stood in the doorway of my study and announced their engagement. “Abba,” said my 19 year old, hardly able to contain herself, “we decided on a date.” Tehila works in the children’s ward at Tel Hashomer Hospital. She’s there fulfilling her National Service, which she…

  By Moshe Dann Apr 21, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  How To Laugh at Death, By Art Buchwald

  Art Buchwald is living and dying in a Washington, D.C., hospice. If you don’t know his story, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a very sad time for the 80-year-old Jewish columnist. Just the opposite, Buchwald says. “I am,” he announces, “having the time of my life.” His family and friends, along with…

  By Dov Burt Levy Apr 21, 2006 | 3 min read
• Letters

  Letter April 21, 2006

  Note Orthodox Record Of Government Service An April 7 article describes the hundreds of letters that were submitted on behalf of Jack Abramoff to U.S. District Judge Paul Huck, many from prominent rabbinic and lay leaders in the Orthodox community (“‘Dear Judge’: Religion-tinged Letters Praise Good Deeds of Felon Lobbyist”). Assuming that Abramoff is truly…

  Apr 21, 2006 | 5 min read