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  Solidarity Foreboding

  The splintering of the AFL-CIO this week by the departing teamsters’ and service employees’ unions should be seen by liberals, progressives and friends of human rights everywhere as a terrible milestone in American social history. It should be, but it isn’t. And that’s the real tragedy. To be sure, the breakup was reported across the…

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• Opinion

  Learning From the Bomb

  Six decades after our nation unleashed the nuclear age by dropping atomic bombs on Japan, fully three-fifths of Americans believe a new world war is likely within their lifetimes. That’s the main finding of a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and a Japanese news agency in early July, to mark the August 6…

  Jul 29, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Disengage From Turning Religion Into a Political Slogan

  When disengagement from Gaza is over, this much is clear: Relations between religious Zionism and the State of Israel will never be quite the same. The rules of the game that have regulated the relationship between the national religious camp and Israel’s secular population have been shattered beyond repair. Most Israelis, it should be said,…

  By Eric Yoffie Jul 29, 2005 | 5 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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• Letters

  July 29, 2005

  Rabbi a Model Soldier A July 1 article on the appointment of Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff to serve as an advisor to the Air Force as it responds to problems at the Air Force Academy is written to the point, but doesn’t do full justice to the individual (“Air Force Taps Rabbi To Aid on Academy…

  Jul 29, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Judging Roberts

  Years from now, when historians try to explain George W. Bush’s influence on the American political landscape, they may well start by pointing to July 19, 2005, the day he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court. In choosing Roberts, Bush appears to have found the combination that has eluded conservatives for a quarter-century in…

  Jul 22, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Showdown in the Desert

  The running confrontation in the Negev desert this week between Jewish settlers attempting to march into Gaza and Israeli troops determined to stop them was more than just another policy dispute. It was the opening of the deepest fissure yet in a gaping abyss that is dividing Israel in two and could ultimately swallow the…

  Jul 22, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Judging Women By Their Merits

  Does it matter that there will not be two women on the United States Supreme Court? Would it matter if there were none? Sexual politics heated up over the last two weeks as President Bush came ever closer to naming his choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose retirement takes effect, by its terms,…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jul 22, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Scandalous Partisanship

  The Democratic sharks smell Republican blood in the water. As a consequence, they are zeroing in on Karl Rove in order to embarrass the president in what has become a tidal wave of partisanship. It is revealing, however, that these are toothless sharks on a hapless mission. There is the contention that Rove revealed Valerie…

  By Herbert London Jul 22, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Raise the Bar in Israeli Politics

  On a warm evening in June 2004, I attended a wedding held on Kibbutz Ma’aleh HaHamisha, in the hilly countryside outside Jerusalem. It was a smallish affair by Israeli standards, just 300 guests. Those seated with me included a radio journalist, an accountant, a social worker and a Brazilian immigrant who teaches dance. I also…

  By Robert Schulman Jul 22, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  July 22, 2005

  Reform Movement: Scalia Beyond the Pale A July 15 article reports that the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism “considers Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — the conservative judge that President Bush indicated is a presumptive mold for future nominees — as being well within the judicial mainstream” (“Jewish Groups Backing Away From Talk of…

  Jul 22, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Bringing Jerusalem Back Down to Size

  Last week the government of Israel made a historic decision to leave a portion of Jerusalem outside the security barrier, thereby officially beginning the process of undoing the anachronistic post-Six-Day War annexation that has turned Israel’s capital into a bi-national nightmare. Ariel Sharon, of all people, has undertaken to allow the fence protecting Jerusalem to…

  By Yossi Alpher Jul 22, 2005 | 4 min read