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  Breaching ‘The Breaking Point

  The recent oil rally and record-high prices have sprouted a thriving cottage industry of energy millenarians — doomsayers warning that oil production has peaked and that a toxic mix of soaring demand and plummeting reserves is leading the world on a global collision course toward the “End of Oil.” That such predictions have been repeatedly…

  By Antoine Halff

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• Letters

  August 26, 2005

  Fixated on Ghosts, Overlooking the Living Jo-Ann Mort’s August 12 “Letter From Berlin” is a perfect example of how some view the glass as half empty while others see it as half full (“Waves of Emptiness Mark History in German Capital”). I, too, was in Berlin recently. As the daughter of a Viennese man who…

  Aug 26, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  License With Language

  No, Dikla, this was not a pogrom. The reference is to Dikla Cohen, whose photograph being escorted out of her home in Gush Katif appeared on page 1, above the fold, of The New York Times of August 18. In the caption beneath the photo, she is quoted as saying, “I feel today was a…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 26, 2005 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza

  

• Nora Berman The left is turning on AOC over Israel — and imperiling its own agenda

  

• Dan Perry Actually, Trump made things between Israel and Iran way worse

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Losing Iraq

  From a purely symbolic point of view, President Bush hardly could have picked a more unfortunate day than this past Monday to emerge from vacation and speak out in defense of his Iraq war policy. Beset by falling polls and burgeoning anti-war protests, Bush chose a friendly audience at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention…

  Aug 26, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Breaking the Ice on Warming

  There was, according to news reports, a heartening spirit of compromise in evidence in Greenland last week when officials from 23 nations gathered to discuss global warming. The occasion was a four-day visit to the massive Ilulissat glacier, a United Nations landmark that is rapidly melting into the ocean. Hosted by Denmark, which governs Greenland,…

  Aug 26, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The Difficulty, and Ease, of Uprooting Jews

  We are only days away from the lowering of the last Israeli flag in Gaza and the withdrawal of the last Israeli soldier. As one of the Jewish people’s and the Zionist enterprises’ most moving and profound dramas comes to a conclusion, many pens and keyboards will pour forth with punditry and wit of greater…

  By Ben Dansker Aug 26, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  August 19, 2005

  Attack on Evolution Is Dressed-up Creationism I was very disturbed by David Klinghoffer’s attack on science in his August 12 opinion column (“Toward Theological Evolution”). He advocates that “Intelligent Design” — the idea that it is not possible to find naturalistic explanations for some traits in living things — should be embraced by Jews. He…

  Aug 19, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Gloom and Doom, Yet We Bloom

  The highest temperature ever recorded anywhere was at Tirat Tzvi, in Israel, on June 12, 1942, when the thermometer reached 129 degrees Fahrenheit. By comparison, the 100-plus temperatures recorded this week at the Kissufim crossing — the way from Israel proper to Gush Katif, in Gaza — though higher than usual, are not all that…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 19, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Homes and Borders

  In the hot desert scrub of southern Gaza this week, in scenes broadcast around the world, Israelis who were losing their homes to a government policy they thought cruel confronted soldiers executing that policy and begged for some miracle to change history. The miracle did not come, but the settlers’ sacrifice seared the hearts of…

  By J.J. Goldberg Aug 19, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Sabotaging Peace

  Given Israel’s wrenching efforts to open a new page in its relations with the Palestinians, it is depressing to see groups supposedly committed to morality and human rights continue to demonize the Jewish state as though nothing at all had changed. Over the past two years, a motley assortment of churches, trade unions and local…

  Aug 19, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  A Picture Of Heroism and Hate

  I always try to go to Mass on the anniversary of my mother’s untimely death 26 long years ago. But this year I decided to do something of a different spiritual significance. I attended the “Liberation!” exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance here in Los Angeles — photos and footage and objects from the moments…

  By Tad Daley Aug 19, 2005 | 4 min read