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In Dark Times, Blame the Jews
On the face of it, there’s little that’s new in the provocative research paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” published online last week by two leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Their underlying thesis, that Israel’s advocates have pressured America into an unjustified and damaging alliance with Israel, has been around…
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Opinion A Moderate in America, With No Political Party To Call Home
I propose importing Kadima, Israel’s new centrist party, to the United States. I don’t mean that we need yet another Jewish organization; quite the contrary. Instead I am plugging an excellent observation first sketched by Jonathan Rauch in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly. In his essay, Rauch argues that American politics is broken…
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Opinion The U.N. Reforms, Despite Bolton’s Best Efforts
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has long been an embarrassment to the decent nations of the world. Its membership has included the world’s worst abusers of human rights — Sudan, for example, and Cuba and Zimbabwe — who have used their membership to protect themselves and each other from condemnation for their human…
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Letters March 24, 2006
Rabbi’s ‘Medical’ View Of Gays Simply Wrong I should like to thank the Conservative movement Rabbinical Assembly’s Rabbi Leonard Levy for giving us his expert medical opinion on the nature of homosexuality (“Gay Issues Roil Rabbis In Advance Of Parley,” March 17). Were we not in the blessed position of being enlightened by Levy, we…
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Opinion In Defense of Morton Klein and ZOA
The Forward got it right when it called the Zionist Organization of America “a storied century-old organization which is arguably the most prominent American opponent to [one-sided] Israeli territorial concessions and American aid to the Palestinians with fiery speeches, press releases, frequent newspaper opinion pieces and intense lobbying in Washington who has won over big-name…
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Opinion A Modus Vivendi Between Jerusalem and Tehran
Vice President Dick Cheney’s tough speech on Iran this past week in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was interrupted by applause no fewer than 48 times, including eight standing ovations. In the most explicit threat of military force to date by a senior member of the Bush administration, Cheney said that “the…
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Opinion The Other Jewish Vote
The results of the balloting for the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress, announced in New York this week, can easily be taken as evidence of the continuing decline of organized Zionism in this country. Voting in the quadrennial Zionist elections, which peaked in 1987 at close to a quarter-million voters, dropped this year…
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Opinion Harold Ostroff
Few of us are privileged to have a career that allows us to live our ideals while transforming the world we live in. Harold Ostroff had two. In his first career, as head of the United Housing Foundation, he was America’s most successful champion of affordable cooperative housing for working families. In his second, as…
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Opinion Confronting Discontinuity on Campus
Last week Avraham Infeld, president of the Jewish campus organization Hillel, rightfully stated that tzedakah is easier than tzedek. The difference between charity and justice, he pointed out at the Spitzer Forum on Public Policy/JCPA Plenum, is the difference between providing essentials like food or clothing and dealing with the root causes of poverty and…
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Opinion Expand Access to Spiritual Tradition
Birthright Israel is poised to take its 100,000th Jewish young adult to Israel for a 10-day educational experience. The program has reached massive numbers of college-age Jews, and already nearly 25,000 North American young adults have applied in recent weeks for the 10,000 or so slots available for this coming summer. What, though, about the…
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Opinion Let Martin Tankleff Have Justice
Anyone who has ever worked in government knows that there are certain laws and standards that hold for all jobs in all branches. Among them are ethical concerns that should be so obvious as to not even warrant attention, such as avoiding an appearance of impropriety or not using public office for personal gain or…
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