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  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

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  Mideast Peace Requires Withdrawal From Unilateralism

  As much as some Palestinian groups would like to claim that Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza this week is a direct result of their military actions, the majority of Palestinians don’t buy into such a simplistic narrative. Nor, however, is the withdrawal a product of what we believed to be the alternative path to liberation…

  By Daoud Kuttab Aug 19, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Mourn for Gaza, Pray for Unity

  As Israel prepares to disengage from Gaza, it is not only natural but also proper that we experience a keen sense of mourning over our loss. Imagine if we were evicted from our homes, if our synagogues were dismantled, the remains of our loved ones disinterred. These feelings only become more acute when we recall…

  By Avi Weiss Aug 12, 2005 | 3 min read

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

  

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• 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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  Toward Theological Evolution

  The passionately contested scientific critique of Darwinian evolution called “Intelligent Design” is hotter than ever. Yet in this controversy, with its profound moral and spiritual implications, the Jewish community has remained curiously abstracted and irrelevant. Our irrelevance stands out when you consider how many Christians, from President Bush to Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, have weighed in…

  By David Klinghoffer Aug 12, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Two-state Dissolution

  Once upon a not so long-ago time, Israel’s Herut Party, which eventually mutated into today’s Likud, had as its theme song “Shtei Gadot Layarden” — “There are two sides to the Jordan [river], this one is ours and that one, too.” In short, all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan as the one…

  By Leonard Fein Aug 5, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Orneriness and Its Discontents

  In the end, there was nothing but sheer orneriness driving President Bush’s decision to go behind the Senate’s back and send John Bolton to the United Nations by recess appointment. He embarrassed America and did Bolton no favor, but he got his way. If Bush had a point in the first place in nominating Bolton,…

  Aug 5, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Standing With Israel

  With just days to go before Israel begins pulling its troops and settlers out of Gaza and the northern West Bank, a weird air of unreality has settled over the subject. For most Israelis, soldier and civilian alike, the discussion is over, and little remains but to roll the trucks, clear out and hand over…

  Aug 5, 2005 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Letter August 5, 2005

  Berg the First Ballplayer To Be Big in Japan? A July 29 article on the return of Gabe Kapler to the Boston Red Sox reports that Moe Berg is thought to have been the first Jewish ballplayer “to set up shop in Japan” (“Batter Back in Boston”). Berg did play in Japan in the 1930s,…

  Aug 5, 2005 | 5 min read
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  Cultivate Communal Connection Beyond Organizational Affiliation

  Everyone knows that there is a daunting number of Jewish organizations in America. A recent volume of the American Jewish Year Book lists more than 500 operating at the national level, not to speak of those operating locally. The veritable babble of acronyms underscores the community’s hyper-organized character: UJA, AJC, JDC, ADL, AIPAC, IPF, NIF,…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Aug 5, 2005 | 5 min read
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  One Governor’s Commitment to Survivors

  Nine years ago, the financial losses suffered by Nazi victims suddenly received an extraordinary amount of attention. Dormant bank accounts in Switzerland and European insurance companies’ unpaid policies became headline news. But while victims found that their losses were of great public interest, few agencies were prepared to assist individual Holocaust survivors with their claims….

  By Marilyn Henry Aug 5, 2005 | 4 min read
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  16 Words for John Roberts

  ‘At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish… Americans attend their places of worship more often than do citizens of…

  By Leonard Fein Jul 29, 2005 | 4 min read