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After the Dust of September 11 Has Settled
Late last month, the New-York Historical Society opened a unique exhibition dedicated to the September 11 attacks, called “Elegy in the Dust.” The installation’s focal point is the Chelsea Jeans Memorial, a downtown retail store turned shrine filled with the ash-covered apparel that was on sale that tragic day. When I heard about “Elegy in…
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Opinion Nine-Eleven, Plus Five
Next Monday, September 11, marks the fifth anniversary of the deadly attacks against New York and Washington that plunged the world into what we call the global war against terrorism. In a daring act of spectacular savagery, the terrorists of Al Qaeda struck at the heart of our culture and our civilization, seeking to throw…
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Opinion Renewal in Elul
Elul, the lunar month that precedes the Jewish New Year, is by tradition a time of reflection and self-accounting. It is the warm-up to the spiritually grueling Ten Days of Awe and Penitence that run from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. As we scrub our homes each year in the days before Passover, so we…
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Opinion Pressure Russia To Reveal Looted Art’s Heritage
Vladimir Putin, it seems, has finally gotten serious about stolen artworks. The theft reported last month of millions of dollars worth of objects from the Hermitage, the famed museum in St. Petersburg, has led to a frenzy of activity to inventory the artworks in Russia’s museums. On Putin’s order, the government set up an audit…
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Opinion Beware Government’s Creeping Censorship of Scientific Inquiry
Since at least the end of World War II, the United States has arguably been the major center for advanced research in science and technology. This has been possible, at least in part, because many of the best and brightest students and scholars have come to study or carry out research at our world-class research…
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Opinion European Force for Lebanon Is a Feeble Mission
With European countries preparing to supply more than half of the 15,000 troops bound to keep the peace in southern Lebanon, the Old World is embarking on one of its biggest military endeavours since 1945. The Lebanon mission will formally be under the United Nations umbrella, but European leaders see it as a chance to…
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Opinion Regional Peace Requires Troops For Palestine
‘How can Israeli soldiers fight a 10-year-old boy who wants to die? Or a teenager at the wheel of an exploding truck, smiling because he knows that in 10 seconds he will be in Heaven? This is the generation I am afraid of!” These are the words not of an Israeli general warning of a…
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Opinion Consumer Demand Drove Adoption of Glatt Standard
In an August 18 opinion article, Marc Shapiro takes the Orthodox Union to task for, over the last 30 years, having “adopted a new standard in kashrut, one that defines only glatt kosher as acceptable” (“glatt Kosher Meat Is Not All It Is Cut Out to Be”). The era that Shapiro laments as having passed,…
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Opinion Spread The Good News
‘Summertime,” Gershwin used to say, “and the livin’ is easy.” Not the summer of 2006, though. The summer now fading was just about as uneasy as it gets. Still, through the fog of war, the contrails of the jets, the smoke and fire of the bombs, other and very different stories were unfolding. Here, two…
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Opinion A House Divided
During his July 20 speech at the annual NAACP convention, President Bush acknowledged his party’s decades-long failure to win support from black Americans. “I understand that many African Americans distrust my political party,” Bush said. “I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African…
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Opinion Let Them Go
The release this week of two Fox News journalists who had been kidnapped in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists is an occasion for joy and relief on the part of their families, their friends and their home governments. The Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority deserves acknowledgment for its role in bringing the two men home….
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