Opinion

• Opinion

  Are We Being Fair to Messianic Jews?

  When you write a book called “Why the Jews Rejected Jesus” and make your e-mail address available on a Web site bearing your name, as I’ve done, you are going to get a lot of e-mail from strangers. Some of it will be friendly, some hostile and some just heartbreaking. In the last category, I…

  By David Klinghoffer

  4 min read
• Opinion

  The Price of Multi-payer Health Care

  A memorable moment in the 1997 movie “As Good As It Gets” comes when the protagonist played by Helen Hunt, a hard-working waitress and mother of an asthmatic little boy, loses it when she learns that her health insurer will not pay for a doctor-advised diagnostic test. She explodes: “Those f—king HMO bastard pieces of…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Work To Create Communal Careers

  Across America, graduates are once again marching across university lawns and out into the work world. As the class of 2005 enters the labor market, Jewish organizations are hoping that more than a few will choose to work for them. From local synagogues to national agencies, Jewish communal work is a multi-billion dollar sector of…

  By Leonard Saxe and Shaul Kelner Jun 3, 2005 | 3 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 Americans keep getting killed in the West Bank. Here’s how the US could fight that awful trend

  

• Nora Berman First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality

  

• Dan Perry What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?

  

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

  

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• Letters

  June 3, 2005

  Airing Bias on NPR The attack by Samuel Freedman in a May 27 opinion article against the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, as well as his defense of National Public Radio’s Middle East coverage and his claims about initiatives by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are alarming considering that he is…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Protecting the Wall

  On the face of it, the United States Supreme Court’s ruling this week on the religious rights of prisoners covers a fairly narrow field: It merely upholds one recent federal law that limits the ability of certain local authorities — mainly prisons and zoning commissions — to curtail religious practices. But while the direct impact…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Israel Journeys

  The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel took an important step forward this week with the launch of Masa, or Israel Journey, the new, multimillion-dollar effort to promote long-term study and volunteering in Israel by young adults. Experience shows there’s nothing better than a semester or two in Israel to strengthen human and…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Matters of Distinction

  One of the signal contributions of the American Jewish Committee, over many years now, has been its stream of publications reporting on and analyzing our community. Its annual “American Jewish Yearbook” has long been a staple in Jewish libraries; as David Harris wrote in his foreword to Volume 100, which appeared in the year 2000,…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 3, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Democracy Gets a Reprieve

  Democracy got a reprieve in Washington this week, and America got some new heroes, when 14 United States senators — seven Democrats and seven Republicans — broke with their parties to forge a compromise that forestalled a Capitol Hill meltdown over judicial nominations. The heroism of the 14 is not of the sort we’re most…

  May 27, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  May 27, 2005

  Virtual Shoah Survivors I want to congratulate opinion columnist Leonard Fein for his courage in tackling the issue of the March of the Living program (“Too Young To March?” May 13). I am not a stranger to marches. I was 12 when the Germans made us march from our homes through the length of our…

  May 27, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Torturous Silence

  There are times he speaks with genuine passion, this president of ours. That’s what he did on the video he sent to the meeting of anti-Castro protesters in Cuba the other day, as also when he pledged to veto any bill that Congress might send to him calling for fetal stem-cell research. But there was…

  By Leonard Fein May 27, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Make-believe Ethics

  Here’s an ethical puzzle: Suppose you are the head of a major American institution that wields influence around the world. You come across what seems to be solid evidence of mischief-making in America’s relations with the Islamic world. The evidence isn’t airtight, but you go with it. The result, unanticipated, is mayhem: bloodshed beyond your…

  May 27, 2005 | 2 min read